re: How would you answer this BS from a Bama fan….

The Bama fan is clearly an idiot.

Washington, like the Saints, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, etc. uses a METALLIC shade commonly called "Old Gold". Lighter shades of metallic gold are defined as "Vegas Gold".

LSU, like innumerable athletic programs across the country (USC, Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland A's etc.), uses a shade properly defined as "athletic gold" but generally referred to as "gold". It is NOT yellow (and certainly not "canary yellow"); it has a shift to the red side of the spectrum, a slight orangey tint.

Yellow:


Athletic Gold:

You can tell him there is a whole heraldic thing about translating the metallic colors (silver/gold or argent/or) into non-metallic ones; but he would not be able to understand or comprehend...