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Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 11:21 AM
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Probably a better DT question but one I've always wondered. Seems like there's a large portion of our fanbase that doesn't like the color purple. I'm not getting into the whole "what are we wearing" deal because honestly I don't care as long as it's some combo of our school colors (no gray, black, etc). Just curious as to why so many people dislike purple as one of our school colors, and curious if there's any other fanbase out there that has so many issues with one of their school colors.
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Orange Blooded [2430]
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I kinda like the purple shirts with white pants. dont know why some dont like it***
Oct 8, 2013, 11:27 AM
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Re: I kinda like the purple shirts with white pants. dont know why some dont like it***
Oct 8, 2013, 11:17 PM
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I actually like those to. one of my go to jerseys on NCAA
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CU Guru [1151]
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It is a sharp look...
Oct 9, 2013, 10:06 AM
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I hope the team wears that combo for the Citadel game / purple out.
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 11:34 AM
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I always thought of the purple as an accent color, used on the trim or as an outline of lettering or something. Clemson has been identified nationwide for the last 30 years as orange and white, and so when you go away from that and go with a purple jersey or purple pants it changes the look and branding we've established over the years. For alot of people I think the orange and purple just doesn't look as good as other color combos.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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i'm the exception and i go back to the mid '70's
Oct 8, 2013, 11:48 AM
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we are the only school in the NATION who is orange and purple. The orange and navy or orange and white irritates me. I get white because it almost has to be a secondary color on any uniform, mainly because you wear white when you are the away team. What irks me is the stupid "purple is a soft or feminine" color and the even worse navy blue which makes us look like about 10 other D-1 teams and not like Clemson and ONLY Clemson. Personally, i think that we should have more purple trim on the uniforms and definitely a purple stripe on the white pants. I like the Purple jerseys and the purple pants we used to wear. I love the design of our unis but we are not orange and white or orange and navy and why the football team doesn't celebrate that like the baseball team and others do is beyond me. I get tired of the thought process that more purple downplays orange because Clemson will be orange dominant and everyone knows that. We have so many things unique about Clemson, the Rock, the Hill, DV, the Paw, orange and purple is yet another one but for some reason so many Clemson people downplay the purple and we're the only school in the nation with that color combo and that baffles me. I even think throwing purple facemasks on the helmet wouldn't disrupt anything on the classic helmet, for example, which the design and color of which i hope NEVER changes.
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Purple has always been the color of luxury and royalty
Oct 8, 2013, 12:43 PM
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All the true empires of ancient history considered purple to be the finest and must prestigious color.
Purple isn't the color of "softness" or "femininity", it is the color of kings.
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true
Oct 8, 2013, 11:23 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple
also the purple heart isn't given out for #######. ask my granddad, two bullet holes from a German Messerschmitt will really mess you up
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Oculus Spirit [75882]
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Somebody worked really hard to take the purple out at
Oct 8, 2013, 4:23 PM
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somepoint. The cheer says Orange and White, the publication is Orange and White. I think the lettering on my basic Clemson t-shirts is purple but I probably would not buy any mainly purple attire. I also just like to be a curmudgeon and bad mouth any purple out ideas.
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Orange Blooded [3257]
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Absolutely our best looking uniform......EVER!***
Oct 8, 2013, 5:49 PM
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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their school colors are purple and white, actually***
Oct 8, 2013, 5:55 PM
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All-TigerNet [10991]
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a lot of purple and orange on their official athletic site
Oct 8, 2013, 11:12 PM
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and their purple aces logo is purple and orange.
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gopurpleaces.com
Oct 8, 2013, 11:14 PM
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I just like branding ourselves a certain way. We never
Oct 8, 2013, 11:39 AM
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concerned ourselves with all of these uniform combos until Hatfield and mainly Bowden decided to change all of that stuff.
When you see orange and the paw, you think Clemson. We're a traditional southern football school, so why try to always change things up?
Purple is a great trim/secondary color, but no reason to be all flashy and change up our uniform randomly.
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Agree. +1. Whatever the past, this is the best evolution.***
Oct 8, 2013, 11:45 AM
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I like Dabo's no-nonsense approach to the uniform debate...
Oct 8, 2013, 11:49 AM
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He clearly found that it was a distraction in the past, and he's nipped it in the bud by sticking with the same uniform for Home & Away... Would still love to see all orange for FSU, though.
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I agree, but...
Oct 8, 2013, 6:06 PM
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I like the idea of once a year wearing Purple jerseys for a home game, and once a year wearing purple pants for an away game.
That way the team wears more purple, but the players don't decide, Dabo does. Also, it doesn't overdo the purple and we don't slip into the weekly uniform "what are we wearing" debate.
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 11:40 AM
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When my dad played Baseball at Clemson back in the late 40's, he said that Clemson used purple as the primary color with most all of the teams, baseball, football, and even basketball and that orange was more the accent.... Not sure exactly when that changed.
I like the purple myself, but not sure if I like all purple.... There could be more of it on the uniforms, but really doesn't matter either way.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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my uncle is class of '55 and said the same exact thing
Oct 8, 2013, 11:52 AM
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he actually gets irritated with the navy blue particularly. He hated the orange and white changes from the early '70's. He believes to this day that orange is our primary color but there needs to be stronger purple accents on all uniforms and he LOVES the baseball unis. It amuses me when people talk about tradition but they won't listen to a Clemson grad from pre-'70 about things such as this. Clemson tradition didn't start in '77 when Pell got us back on track.
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Whatever anybody's preference, I think it changed with the
Oct 8, 2013, 12:01 PM
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introduction of the 'Paw'.
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Re: Whatever anybody's preference, I think it changed with the
Oct 8, 2013, 12:24 PM
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You are correct, sir! Hootie Ingram was the coach (he was not the designer) responsible for the very unique Tiger Paw symbol. Throughout the 30's- 60's, purple was a co-dominant color for Clemson football. But the actual reason we don't wear more purple has less to do with that than with....."I love you, you love me", and a stupid looking dinosaur.
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It is not purple, it is regalia.
Oct 8, 2013, 12:30 PM
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Whatever the heck that is. LOL.
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I agree with orange and white being the main uniform colors.
Oct 8, 2013, 12:39 PM
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Purple is appropriate as an accent color. Let's be honest, purple and orange both being prominent looks pretty bad (as in purple jerseys and orange pants). Most of our wives and girlfriends will attest to that. And I trust them with stuff like matching colors.
I don't see why having purple as an accent color rather than a dominant color offends some of you.
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 4:16 PM
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Can only answer for myself. I'm an old school guy, started following Tigers in late '50s. I favor the traditional uniforms. LOVE THE Paw on helmets. I can remember CU wearing white at home. Never liked that. I prefer white away and orange at home with white pants. Would love to see orange pants reserved for big home games. Having said all that Just win baby, regardless of the uniform or the venue.
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Orange Blooded [3245]
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I love purple in moderation
Oct 8, 2013, 4:32 PM
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I love purple pants white shirts on away games. I was not a fan of the purple out. Purple is a great color when used correctly and I hope we will figure out how.
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 4:32 PM
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If my memory serves me correctly, at one time our colors were Burnt orange and Northwestern purple. Regalia ????????? Never heard that until today.
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I'm guessing that....
Oct 8, 2013, 4:39 PM
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Maybe Clemson has trademarked certain colors. I saw on a press release earlier this year our colors were "Clemson Orange and Regalia". I work with several different clothing vendors at my job (Nike, Polo, Adidas, etc.) and all of them have crazy names for colors. For example some green shirts we just got in weren't just "Green" they were "Briar Green". Some red ones weren't "Red" they were "Pimento" I'm guessing Clemson's specific color orange is now "Clemson Orange" and their purple is called "Regalia"
For some reason I could really go for a pimento cheese sammich right now....wonder if Heather's available....
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Believe too many still invested in their Orange polyesters!!
Oct 8, 2013, 5:32 PM
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Just kidding..but I like Purple, and looks good as a shirt or slacks..or on Team with purple pants in particular..But believe Clemson will always be ORANGE at heart.
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Look at uniform in TIgerman 78's post above.....our best!***
Oct 8, 2013, 5:51 PM
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I like those, but...
Oct 8, 2013, 6:10 PM
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The shadow on the numbers is dumb. That is just way too dated looking.
I would also switch the purple and orange stripes on the pants...Two orange stripes, one purple in the middle.
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Re: I like those, but...
Oct 9, 2013, 10:29 AM
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yep..agreed. Same changes I'd make. Not much of a fan of the shadow behind the numbers.
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 6:03 PM
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IMHO it has more to do with establishing an idenity and sticking to it..U don`t see Bama, ND,Texas, Penn State wearing all these wild unis...also, Orange is our color @ home and it is good
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ND Switches things up...
Oct 8, 2013, 8:06 PM
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Green Jerseys, clovers on the helmet, etc...
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Orange Blooded [2455]
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I really like the purple***
Oct 8, 2013, 8:30 PM
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 8, 2013, 8:35 PM
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Ken Hatfield... Need I say anymore?
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Re: Question about school colors***
Oct 8, 2013, 8:55 PM
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I believe originally people was a prominent
Oct 9, 2013, 10:18 AM
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color. then in the 70's with the tiger paw which is white on orange, the purple faded away. the most irritating thing was when we started seeing navy everywhere. seems like the baseball hats were navy in the 90's as we're the road basketball uni's. I believe it was Bowden that got us back to purple. as a side note: in Greenville NC they were welcoming a new staff member who was a Clemson alum an they asked a trivia question. what is Clemson's other color. off course my wife was the only one in the Flynn that new the answer. not being a sports person everyone was surprised she new the answer. when she told be I said well actually it's northwest purple.
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sorry about the 15 typos
Oct 9, 2013, 10:20 AM
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I'm on my phone.
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 9, 2013, 10:31 AM
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I like the basic White for away, orange for home.
I do hope we pull out the all orange for FSU.
The first time we wore all orange was USC 1980 correct?
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Re: Question about school colors
Oct 9, 2013, 10:38 AM
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I don't give a $hit what any one says...I love it, but not on the field! I have plenty of purple T's and sweatshirts, but like I said I like the traditional look Dabo is going with on the field!!!
GO TIGERS...Just win baby!!!
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Is this Project Runway?
Oct 9, 2013, 11:04 AM
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When I played we used to shave our numbers into our chest and back hair.
Of course I didn't have chest hair at the time, because hair can't grow through steel.
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Rusty scratches?***
Oct 9, 2013, 11:09 AM
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UGA --- All thru '70s & '80s was about the SILVER BRITCHES
Oct 9, 2013, 11:14 AM
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However, I rarely hear that anymore & if you ask most about their school colors it would be red/black...despite the fact they do still use the silver/gray pants.
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