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Where did LSU's purple color come from?
Posted on 9/18/17 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 9/18/17 at 9:47 pm
I already know where they got the idea for gold.
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Posted on 9/18/17 at 9:59 pm to dbeck
LSU buddy of mine says when you drink 2 hurricanes then a 12 pack the puke comes out purple.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 10:12 pm to dbeck
They love purple but they live gold
Posted on 9/18/17 at 10:21 pm to dbeck
All jokes aside, I do like how LSU incorporates the purple and gold with their unirforms and then the green grass on the field completes the Mardi Gras colors. Pretty cool.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 1:34 am to dbeck
Yeah, I dunno why they call that shade gold, that's penalty flag yellow if I've ever seen it.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 2:53 am to dbeck
Very well played and thanks for calling yellow gold for us. purple came from the bruises of all our egos this weekend.
This post was edited on 9/19/17 at 3:03 am
Posted on 9/19/17 at 2:55 am to I-H8-BAMA
[quote]Mardi Gras...[/quote is another overhyped instution
Posted on 9/19/17 at 2:59 am to dbeck
Drive through the mash when the lillies are in bloom, it is purple and gold as far as the eye can see, this is where I always heard it came from. 
Posted on 9/19/17 at 3:41 am to dbeck
Seriously when LSU football was just a mere intramural football team somewhere around the late 1880s or early 1890s the team was originally royal blue and white. Like Kentucky. One season the booster club went to make uniforms for the team and headed to the fabric store and there was a sale on purple and gold fabric from the previous Mardi Gras season and not enough royal blue available. They went with the P&G and it stuck.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 3:56 am to GumboPot
Posted on 9/19/17 at 4:19 am to dbeck
Colour-de-roy
In other words, we was kangz
In other words, we was kangz
Posted on 9/19/17 at 4:53 am to GumboPot
quote:I had heard that it came from a game against Tulane in New Orleans just before Mardi Gras. Tulane had gone to pick out fabric, and the green had come in, but not the purple and gold, for the upcoming Mardi Gras, so Tulane bought up most of the green and some white. When LSU got to town, the purple and gold had come in, and there wasn't much green left, so by default LSU had to buy purple and gold.
Seriously when LSU football was just a mere intramural football team somewhere around the late 1880s or early 1890s the team was originally royal blue and white. Like Kentucky. One season the booster club went to make uniforms for the team and headed to the fabric store and there was a sale on purple and gold fabric from the previous Mardi Gras season and not enough royal blue available. They went with the P&G and it stuck.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:24 am to dbeck
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dbeck
You never disappoint.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:45 am to Stonehog
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All jokes aside, I do like how LSU incorporates the purple and gold with their unirforms and then the green grass on the field completes the Mardi Gras colors. Pretty cool.
As someone who grew up going to Mobile Mardi gras, and never missed a Mardi Gras somewhere until I was 31, I'll say this:
Mobile started Mardi Gras, Nola perfected it. I'll never do another Fat Tuesday in Mobile. I'll hit up Joe Cain and the MoTs. But Mobile is only about parades. The fun in Nola is off the parade route.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:14 am to dbeck
Bada bing.....
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:17 am to dbeck
from the color of the bruises on their arse after they got it kicked by other teams
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:19 am to dbeck
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Where did LSU's purple color come from?
The Assyrian's
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
From "The Destruction of Sennacherib" - George Gordon aka Lord Byron
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:24 am to tigerpimpbot
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Colour-de-roy
In other words, we was kangz
Is that the Cajun spelling of couleur-du-rois?
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:29 am to dbeck
Well played...i upvoted
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