Because Thanksgiving: brown and orange

 

11/24

Brown is back


Because Thanksgiving: Brown and Orange


This week’s “Hat’s off” is to Thanksgiving.  I’v got no Thanksgiving hats or jerseys…except for a few old Turkey Trot shirts from my road race days.  So I’m going for color…the brown and orange we associate with Thanksgiving.  Brown for turkeys and orange for pumpkins  I guess.  Although this year there is added meaning to orange as it has become the color for memorializing the senseless hidden deaths of First Nation peoples in Canada. (To learn more see https://www.techlifetoday.ca/articles/2020/why-we-wear-orange-on-orange-shirt-day-nait.)


As for brown and orange in sports, pretty rare. In the US, no hockey (except for the AHL Hershey Bears.) None in basketball I can think of. As for football, there is of course the Cleveland Browns. And in baseball, only one since the St. Louis  Browns left in 1954 to become the Baltimore Orioles.  That would be the SanDiego Padres, who started as a brown team then switched to blue and orange finally to return to brown, after popular demand in 1954. In soccer, there’s the iconic Bundesliga St.Pauli team.  And colleges? Well, Wyoming, Bowling Green and of course, Brown University. 


In honor of that return to brown, our Uniwatch blog (for the obsessive study of athletic aesthetics) celebrated a San Diego gathering with a brown tribute jersey.  The hats would follow later.  And so today’s hat’s on is a Uni watch brown special. 

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