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Why does LSU wear white jerseys at home for big games?

Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:27 pm
Posted by weagle99
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:27 pm
Don't like purple? Have a history with the whites?
Posted by Devil_doge
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:28 pm to
Tradition I believe?

Looks good regardless.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:31 pm to
So you can wipe your arse with them after you are done taking a shite in their stadium?


Posted by ksayetiger
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:31 pm to
Good guys wear white at home.

Tradition, actually. Just like the 5 yard markers, "H" goalpost, playing a t night, leaving in 3rd quarter, etc.
Posted by Giant Leaf
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:31 pm to
White is associated with virginity

The half full tiger stadium is full of virgins

Am I doing this right
Posted by Arksulli
Fayetteville
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:32 pm to
They would but you don't want to break out the once in a season or less uniforms for a loss to Troy. The gold and purple should be reserved to games against ULL, ULM, or... for the extra mojo... Tulane.

Its like Notre Dame bringing out the green uniforms. Only fewer people care.
Posted by beaver
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:34 pm to
so they can take them off and wave them halfway through the third
Posted by FiddleHead
Knoxville, TN
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:39 pm to
Some really awful jokes in here guys come on step it up
Posted by stat19
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:41 pm to
They save purple jerseys for their toughest opponents...like Troy.
Posted by jatebe
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:46 pm to
Because their yellow jerseys are awful. It looks like mustard.
Posted by Gray Tiger
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:48 pm to
Back before TV ruled the football world, each home team would decide which to wear, color or white. White was LSU's choice back them.
Then along comes black and white television and of course television money. The TV execs decided that home teams would always wear dark and visitors white so that the viewer would always know which team was home. Television money is hard to refuse so the NCAA went along with the request. For many years LSU wore dark (purple) at all home games and white on the road.
LSU fans preferred the white at home and Gerry DiNardo successfully convinced the NCAA to let LSU wear white at home. Knowing the NCAA's love for rules, it wasn't a blanket waiver. For LSU (or any one else presumably), to wear white, they would have to get permission from the visitors.
Posted by roger79
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:56 pm to
quote:

For LSU (or any one else presumably), to wear white, they would have to get permission from the visitors.


Used to be true. Rule got changed in the SEC somewhere around the time Vanderbilt refused LSU's request in 1996 because the Commodores had their panties in a wad over Gerry DiNardo's buyout. SEC changed it to give home team in SEC games the choice some time before the end of the '90s. I believe visitor's permission was still an NCAA rule circa 2004 when Oregon State refused and wore white for LSU's opener.

Nowadays, you don't need visitor's permission at all. Only took the NCAA more than 20 years to get back to common sense.

Of course, I like our purple jerseys better. They look better, and I don't like sharing any tradition with the Dallas Cowboys. I think you should wear dark jerseys at home in football. They were good enough for SEC champs at LSU in '86 and '88 (co-champs that year) and for the Sugar Bowl team of '84.
This post was edited on 10/11/17 at 6:00 pm
Posted by Sid E Walker
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:57 pm to
French folks have always waved white flags in surrender so it's a salute to their heritage, I suppose.
Posted by Sid E Walker
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:58 pm to
Damn...always late.
Posted by Ted2010
Member since Oct 2010
38958 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 5:58 pm to
LSU has very cool uniforms. The home whites are unique to them and it's a cool tradition when playing home vs an SEC team.

But, I really like their purple jerseys. It has that Mardi Gras look and feel to them. I wish they'd wear them more.

But the home whites have become iconic.
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