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re: Where did LSU's purple color come from?
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:39 am to PJinAtl
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:39 am to PJinAtl
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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.
This sounds more right.
Need an LSU historian to come in here with a link.
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Posted on 9/19/17 at 7:50 am to dbeck
bruises
Posted on 9/19/17 at 7:57 am to Kashmir
I think of it more as purple and piss
Posted on 9/19/17 at 8:12 am to GumboPot
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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.
This sounds more right.
Need an LSU historian to come in here with a link.
Don't have a link but Peter Finney wrote about it in his first history of LSU Football... The Fighting Tigers
Posted on 9/19/17 at 8:14 am to vl100butch
I just wish they would use gold and not yellow....
Posted on 9/19/17 at 8:17 am to DingLeeBerry
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LSU buddy of mine says when you drink 2 hurricanes then a 12 pack the puke comes out purple.
You gotta get the Hurricanes fom Pat O'Brien's though.
This post was edited on 9/19/17 at 8:19 am
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