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Educate a Millenial: Why did so many fans wear white back in the day?
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:27 pm
Stupid and irrelevant question but I've always wondered this. Watching the 1980 SC-UGA game now and so many people are wearing white and this seems to be true for almost all fan bases when classic games are on? Why is that? Was it just the fad of the day? Was school merchandise not as readily available reason?
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:29 pm to theGarnetWay
Color wasn't invented until 1998.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:32 pm to theGarnetWay
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Why did so many fans wear white back in the day?
Things were more dressed up. Usually you wore at least a white button down, khaki trousers, and street shoes. You cheered the team and did not have to wear the gear. Along came Nike and sold us on having to buy their crap if were a real fan. Couple that with the vagabond look taking over and it all went to hell.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:37 pm to theGarnetWay
only ole miss fans did this
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:39 pm to theGarnetWay
day games in the south are hot....white is cooler than red or black
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:44 pm to theGarnetWay
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Stupid and irrelevant question but I've always wondered this. Watching the 1980 SC-UGA game now and so many people are wearing white and this seems to be true for almost all fan bases when classic games are on? Why is that? Was it just the fad of the day? Was school merchandise not as readily available reason?
Because it was cool ... and in temperature cool. Stadiums were still hot back then and more people had common sense. White was cooler in the day games than were darker colors.
Also, white t-shirts were more common, with screen printing.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:46 pm to theGarnetWay
White is a hell of a lot cooler, and in the era before white/black/team color outs there was no reason to wear a dark shirt to an SEC game in September.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:55 pm to theGarnetWay
Word on the street is that white is cooler. 
Posted on 8/17/14 at 11:11 pm to theGarnetWay
Back in the day it was dorky to wear your team's Jersey
Posted on 8/18/14 at 1:21 am to theGarnetWay
Wearing white is smart at a hot game, if that's your main concern.
I'd say once games were on TV much more regularly people cared a lot more what they wore and what the stadium looked like.
Prior to cable TV and the rule changes in the 1980's, there were like 3-4 games on a weekend.
I'd say once games were on TV much more regularly people cared a lot more what they wore and what the stadium looked like.
Prior to cable TV and the rule changes in the 1980's, there were like 3-4 games on a weekend.
Posted on 8/18/14 at 5:45 am to theGarnetWay
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Why is that?
Hope you haven't moved to CS yet. The Graduate Studies Department is reconsidering your acceptance.
Posted on 8/18/14 at 5:48 am to theGarnetWay
I could be completely wrong here, but I imagine white shirts were cheaper to make as well as it being hot.
Posted on 8/18/14 at 6:28 am to theGarnetWay
As anyone over the age of 30 could tell you... white is cooler when you wear it in the sun. You don't get as hot. /thread
Posted on 8/18/14 at 8:42 am to theGarnetWay
Was wondering the same thing.
That game was played in November and it was pretty cold, so wearing white because it's cooler doesn't make sense.
That game was played in November and it was pretty cold, so wearing white because it's cooler doesn't make sense.
Posted on 8/18/14 at 9:03 am to theGarnetWay
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1980 SC-UGA game
They didn't make wife beaters in colors back then.
Come at me wife
Posted on 8/18/14 at 9:04 am to theGarnetWay
Because Tommy Tuberville hadn't told us to wear orange yet.
Posted on 8/18/14 at 9:14 am to theGarnetWay
LSU fans didn't start showing up to games in P&G until 2004
Posted on 8/18/14 at 9:30 am to theGarnetWay
They didn't want to be mistaken for people of color.
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