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[GUHoya07]

thebin said:

well its not like navy is some obscure crayola color like Burnt Siena or Fuschia or Chartruesse. Its probably the most common school color (or 2nd) in America.

I seriously doubt that. I would agree that blue in general is, but more of a royal blue, which is typically the norm.

[thebin]

I know you are just throwing it out there because I asked. I am not trying to be arguementative. But I really feel that navy is a color, and not a nuanced version of a color that involved hair spliting. You say "navy" to someone and they know EXACTLY what it looks like, unlike when you say orange or red or green. Its like black- it just is what it is.

[thebin]

GUHoya2007 said:

I seriously doubt that. I would agree that blue in general is, but more of a royal blue, which is typically the norm.

In my experience navy blue is an extremely common school color, more than any other perhaps except for red. I know more navy blue schools than royal blue schools by far. But I am going to try to excersize some restraint because this is getting silly....

I don't understand why you are saying "dark blue." THat is less specific, and thus less correct, than navy. Just stick with Navy. Are we arguing over what navy looks like and I don't know it?

[GUHoya07]

well, maybe they're about even, but either way.....

GIVE US OUR DARK BLUE AND GRAY!!!

[jerseyhoya34]

thebin said:

I know you are just throwing it out there because I asked. I am not trying to be arguementative. But I really feel that navy is a color, and not a nuanced version of a color that involved hair spliting. You say "navy" to someone and they know EXACTLY what it looks like, unlike when you say orange or red or green. Its like black- it just is what it is.

Fair points. Rice University may have our colors: www.riceowls.com/sports/mbball/. Look at the banner on the website.

[thebin]

almost everything seems to be in navy and white

rcstore.rice.edu/gifts.cfm?doc_id=5590

[GUHoya07]

I remember that Rice was pretty much the only school I could think of when I was trying to determine if we are the only school with blue and gray. They are also definitely blue and gray although their blue may be slighlty different-but that is only a nuance.

[jerseyhoya34]

Scroll down to see the University shield: images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Rice+University&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&qp_p=rice+university&imgsz=all&b=1

[thebin]

Nope- their blue is our blue- NAVY!!!

The question is what is their secondary color. It appears to be white 90% of the time. But maybe they just ingored their real colors like we did? But 90% of their merchandise is navy and white. Some has gray, but then some has pink, and I am seeing a lot of yellow...

rcstore.rice.edu/gifts.cfm?doc_id=5583

[GUHoya07]

Yeah, but is our blue technically navy? I don't know, since we're being so technical I dont know that it is. It is supposed to be some kind of dark blue but you usually refer to GU's colors as blue and gray, not navy blue and gray. As long as it is some sort of dark blue I'm happy, and we're getting very technical here, haha.

[GUHoya07]

thebin said:

It looks to me like gray and navy might have once been thier colors and may technically still be, but their sports teams all use navy and white. Our hoops team may ignore both school colors, but all our other teams use them correctly. It doesn't appear as though any rice teams sue blue and gray.

Im pretty sure they use Blue and Gray on their road basketball uni's. At least some gray trim, but it is mostly blue and white.

[thebin]

Rice is a good looking school.

[thebin]

those are blue and white hoops unis.....

www.riceowls.com/sports/mbball/guide0405.asp

DFW should be able to clear this up....

[GUHoya07]

Yeah, I meant that they at least use gray trim, but you're correct that Blue and White are most prevalent on their jerseys. However the same thing is true with our soccer teams. I think our soccer uni's (men's and women's) are completely navy blue and white.

[thebin]

My ESPN college hoops game has nothing but blue and white. On new Rice items for sale, I am seeing more yellow than gray. What you say about the soccer team sounds familiar now that you mention it, and its unfortunate that they do that. We are not Yale.

Some restraint I have shown.

[thebin]

www4.georgetown.edu/uis/keybridge/keycart/products/index.cfm?Action=View&SiteID=2&SectionIDs=&ProductID=268

this is what we should wear at home all the time.

[TrueHoyaBlue]

Actually many Hoya teams use white (both soccers, volleyball, baseball, and others at various times.

As to specific colors, many colleges (as well as pro teams of all sports) license specific colors via Pantone (an interesting company that essentially owns the rights to all colors), so many schools could argue that they have completely unique colors, though the differences may often be indistiguishable to the naked eye.

[thebin]

That is unfortunate about the other teams. I have always thought the two best looking Hoya uniforms were the football team and men's lax.

Nobody has ever doubted that many schools can claim to have unique color combos, I just think that navy and gray, two universal colors, is a dfferent story than say Michigan claiming that their yellow is actually"maize" and thus unique.

[hoyabinx]

I was under the impression that our official colors were Union Blue and Confederate Gray, if you wanna get right down to it.

[lichoya68]

thebin said:

lichoya- teal is a lot like Carolina blue- that babyish blue we were on the road often now- which bears almost no resemblance to the navy blue that is our actual school color.

oh my god its like the freaking mcdonough floor ouch NO TEAL NO TEAL ONLY BLUE AND GRAY