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For my knowledge will a frog explain to me why you wear black? It is not a school color. Also...why purple for a school color? What is the connection?

They are dressing appropriately for their funeral on Friday!

Big C wrote:For my knowledge will a frog explain to me why you wear black? It is not a school color. Also...why purple for a school color? What is the connection?

Patterson thinks black is intimidating. Some other schools do it was well for the same reasons.

They are going to wear the ugly one. Hope that clears things up.

Big Hoss wrote:They are going to wear the ugly one. Hope that clears things up.

Patterson thinks Black looks sliming

Being a Christian school, our school colors have religious symbolism. Purple and white are the colors of royalty, in this case symbolizing TCU's obedience to God. At least, that was the intention of our founders. Nowadays our administrators insist that we are TCU -- never Texas Christian University.

'89 -- that made me laugh.

It's all fun. Hope it's a great game with no injuries (and you guys show up in that costume)

Stallion wrote:Patterson thinks Black looks sliming

He wants to look like he's been slimed? (Somehow I have the mental image of Bill Murray's character in Ghostbusters, when he announced that he has been so slimed. "I feel so ... funky.")

Undercover Frog wrote:Being a Christian school, our school colors have religious symbolism. Purple and white are the colors of royalty, in this case symbolizing TCU's obedience to God. At least, that was the intention of our founders. Nowadays our administrators insist that we are TCU -- never Texas Christian University.

Two things:

1) Interesting. Never heard (or cared, frankly) about the origin of your school colors.

2) SMU officials often use the initials, but there certainly are plenty of references out there to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY. Why do TCU officials not want the full name of the university used? Is it the "Texas" or the "Christian" that they think creates some sort of a negative vibe?

Thanks

TCU, SMU, USC, UAB - all these schools athletic and media departments want the shortened, easy to say and memorize, media-friendly acronyms used. It ain't just TCU, and it's not just schools with a formal religion in the name. UCLA is another one.

Here's the other one:

Side Note, look at the top glove:

My thoughts EXACTLY!

I thought black in uniforms was a kind of a racial thing. Like Mike Tyson wearing black socks. If you're a lilly white Christian, Ft. Worth school, you need some skill players who might not like at first the idea of going there. This tells them that they're welcome. And thanks for the color explanation of purple (color of royalty) and white (color of redemption from sin). Now, they're wearing the color of death. Way to blur that testimony.