You knew it was coming: 'black out' for AFB

[Dutch]

One of my cousins went to west point and is going to the game and 3 others were/are in the army. I amwearing red & blue

Thought this was going to be a post about 1st and 10 running Johnny walker black specials in honor of this movement

sorry, here's the "black out" special. Buy 1 Johnny Walker Black, get the second for regular price!

[skyscraper]

I will participate in the blackout by drinking as much as humanly possible on the Boulevard -- while wearing red and blue, of course.

[PerunaPunch]

Of all the submoronic nonsense our athletics marketing folks keep churning out, this has to take the cake. As someone already pointed out, black is not the color of our armed forces, black is the color of West Point's made-up mascot.

Put a guy in black on a gelding and you have Texas Tech... Just sayin'.

This proud Navy brat and 5-time legacy SMU alumni will be wearing red and blue just like every other true Mustang fan.

[Junior]

I will participate in the blackout by drinking as much as humanly possible on the Boulevard -- while wearing red and blue, of course.

i'll stop by to support you.

[Peruna88]

Public Relations 101 - if you have news that must be announced, but you want as little publicity as possible - release it at the end of the day Friday afternoon, or, in this case, Friday night. It's too late to make the Saturday papers. You're lucky if reporters work on Saturday and by Monday it's 3-day old news. Bonus points for announcing before a major holiday.

I neither own nor will purchase any SMU black apparel. And don't try to tell me that wearing black supports our military - I can do that just fine on my own. Maybe I'll wear some camo pants.

If you want me in SMU clothes, they will be red or blue. If you insist on black, I'll look like I'm going to the AAC to watch the Dallas Stars. Black IS one of their official colors.

[Northwatcher]

This is to:
1. Sell more product like other ______-outs.
2. Hide the fact that Army outnumbers us in our own stadium
3. Is it to debut our new SMU Rainbow Mustang Warrior black uniforms?

I don't think black uniforms are that big a deal, if done right, but I will be wearing red & blue.

#1. It is all marketing.

I will be wearing my same blue shirt I wore to last year's bowl game. We have never lost when I have worn that shirt to a game!

[peruna11]

I'm torn on this one. Obviously the blackout explanation is deceptive. If we wanted to honor our troops, we'd wear our "america [deleted] yeah" colors which happen to be red & blue. Either that, or we could have a camo-out. That would be cool.

While I am not a huge fan of the black uniforms from a traditional standpoint, if they're done right they'll look good. Like it or not, the kids are fired up for this and recruits eat it up. Personally, if we do it, i'm hoping for a matte black helmet with a red pony.

White is not a school color, yet I think our all whites are our sharpest look. Dickerson didn't wear Yale blue and Kyle doesn't wear Harvard red. Royal and fire engine are better looking than so there isn't a stink - before we get too upset about what our "official colors" are.

The black isn't an outrage to me, but I understand why it would be to some. Wear whatever the heck you want, but support the kids. Write letters to June or Orsini if you want, but booing our players black uniforms like many did the nutless horses would be counterproductive. I hope we can bury whatever our feelings are about the jersey color when they storm out of the tunnel, and cheer your face off for them.

Peruna is my mascot. Merry Christmas. Go Mustangs. Beat Army.

PS: At this time last year I was "blackout" at Rum Fire. I miss that.

[Northwatcher]

So funny you mentioned RumFire. At this point last year I had a few drinks in me and was chatting with Mitch Enright's dad and Kyle Padron's brother.

[Peruna88]

Just realized that it could be worse - at least they are not the Army PURPLE Knights.

[PonyPlayer4]

I will be getting black out if that is along the same lines?

[Pony_Fan]

I'm scratching my head on this one...huh? WTF

[soccermom]

Any irony in the fact that the emblem for the Armed Forces Bowl is red, white and blue? As in America's colors. Yet we honor them with black.

My thoughts, too!!!! I'm feeling like we are being asked to honor someone, but don't think it's our service men & women. NEVER will I buy/own/wear BLACK SMU gear! RIDICULOUS!!! The 4 soccer mom family members in section 2 will be in red and/or blue.
KICK 'EM MUSTANGS!!!!!
Merry CHristmas!

[BIGHORSE]

Red and Blue only for me, NO BLACK!!!

[BUS]

Red and Blue and a special Tibute in the form of my Mustang Militia Dog Tag.
Come and get one for yourself - I only made 200!!!!

Merry Christmas to all!!!

[BIGHORSE]

And also we can wear Purple when we play the frogs, Navy and grey for rice, Maroon for a@m

Green for Marshall, Orange for utep and all the colors of our opponent.