re: This Tommy Casanova Purple Jersey

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I don’t like it anytime we wear anything other than white jerseys with gold pants and helmets.

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geauxpurple

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I doubt if that is a real Tommy Casanova jersey. I don’t remember his ever wearing purple although maybe he did and we had real shoulder stripes back then, not those little short ones.

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not real, or even close.

We didn't wear purple jerseys during Casanova's time here.

And the 37 was on each sleeve, not the way it is on this jersey.

And even if we did, the jersey style was much different, and the sleeves were actual sleeves and the shoulder stripes went all the way around the arm hole, not the "suspender" stripes this jersey.

I can only remember a couple of reasons LSU ever wore purple jerseys before the NCAA came up with the ridiculous ruling that forced LSU to wear them at home.

At one point, Kentucky used to force LSU to wear purple for games in Lexington, but I don't think LSU played there in Tommy's years.

The other time was when LSU played at Georgia Tech many years ago, because Tech also wears white jerseys at home. Jerry Stovall returned a kickoff for a touchdown, to tell you how long ago that was.

Wearing the purple jerseys was so rare, the equipment guys used to line up and take the purple jerseys from the players as soon as they walked off the field after the Spring game, to keep the players from taking them as sort of a collector's item.