When did LSU adopt the bluish/purple color?

Get your fricking eyes checked.

Too much?

Been wondering the same thing. The football uniform uses both. Dark purple on the helmet and much lighter purple on the jersey and pants stripe. The inconsistency makes us look like a high school team.

So which shade of purple is correct??? I think it's the darker ( look at football unis from the 70s and 80s). But now-- who knows.

I actually was wondering the same thing...in Starkville, I actually had trouble recognizing some LSU fans because their shirts were blue instead of purple. I thought it must be some bootlegged shite they had bought, but I saw a heck of a lot before done.

Royal purple is our official color. It is more blue than the jerseys.

Looks purple to me, but I remember when the gold was actually gold instead of banana yellow.

That dull shade of purple comes from a season of use!

The gold in the helmets and pants before 1972 was a considerably deeper hue than today's, it was more of a yellow orange and somehow the Tigers looked more aggressive and confident wearing them (try to find a YouTube broadcast of Notre Dame vs LSU, 1971 as an example). It was AWESOME!

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Just curious when the switch was made.

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it was a gradual change over the course of the last 10 years from purple to the current blue hue. The gold was changed to yellow 30 years ago at least.

LSU gold jersey's were real gold instead of yellow.I liked the gold much better because we aren't purple & gold anymore . Just blue & yellow!