Maroon is actually burnt red

Because maroon really brings out the bevel on the T.

So morans like you would ask about it one day.

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Because burnt orange was taken.

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Uhh Ags were around first.

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t-sip buddy of mine told me that the sips wore blue and white jerseys a long time ago - in a year when the team wasn't so good - and there was a problem with them, and the equip. guys had to run out into town and buy jerseys at a local sporting goods store last minute for the game. The only color they had enough of was burnt orange. Unexpectedly, the team won and played great, and nobody wanted to change it. Everybody loved it. Is it true? Dunno, but my sip friend tells me it is, and is very serious about it.

If true, then it makes sense that they'd be blue and we'd be red, back then, doesn't it? Kinda opposites, for rivals - a red color and a blue color - kinda like USC and UCLA? Florida & Florida State? Washington and Washington St.? Ohio St. and Michigan, kinda? Utah and Utah St.? Arizona and ASU? Louisville and Kentucky? Harvard and Yale? Bama & Auburn? Ole Miss and Miss. St.? The Dallas Texans (AFL) and the Dallas Cowboys (NFL)? North Carolina and NC State? V Tech and Virginia? Montana and Montana St.? LSU and Louisiana Lafayette/UL-Monroe? Indiana and Indiana St.? Penn & Penn St.? There's a pattern there, right? Or have I just been smokin' too much crack, tonight?

Morans, Maroons, Morons. Add Macaroon & at least we'd have a cookie.

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Mix up some dirt and blood and that's what you get. We were all white but BTHO tu so bad the blood from their faces mixed with the dirt and stained the uniforms maroon. Had to keep it.

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Well that escalated quickly but I like it!

OP

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Because maroon really brings out the bevel on the T.

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Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green?

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We were originally red and white. By mistake one time long ago, we were sent maroon in a shipment instead of red.

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So AO has been around that long huh?

Why is the sky blue? Why are all raptors posts positive? Some things were jut meant to be

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Because burnt orange was taken.

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Because we didn't want to look like we were covered in baby ****.

FIFY

Like the color of the back of your tighty whities?

Regarding how the t-sips ended up wearing burnt orange. I remember reading somewhere (who knows if the story is legit) that one of their coaches way back when wanted a jersey color similar to the color of the football to make it easier to disguise who had the ball so they wore brown. As years passed by the brown evolved into burnt orange.

In Fish Camp, they told us that there was a poem written about the Aggie Football team a long time ago, and in order to get the rhyme to work out right, she used a line about "the warriors in maroon" or somesuch. Somehow it stuck and became the official colors.



Or I could be thinking of Pearl Jam's Jeremy.

Because chicks dig it

No answer here, but some really cool history:
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kct08

Cool pictures of past helmets:
http://swchelmets.tripod.com/texasam.html

Why is the color maroon called "maroon?"