re: For how long has the LSU helmet had the gold/yellow hue currently being used?

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The 90s were a lot less 'yellowey' than today's unis.

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1890's maybe. LSU has been using the Canary Yellow/Gold since the late 50's. I've been going to games since the 1960's and it's been the Canary Yellow since then, with only minor shade differences.

Don't know how the official school colors came to be called Royal Purple and Old Gold, because LSU got its original colors during Mardi Gras (Search Tulane -LSU original football game) and the MG shade of gold is the Canary Yellow that LSU uses.

Chicken, you are correct about the color gold in the 70's and 80's. It was closer to the GBFTL coat color.

I wouldnt want it to change. Would you have to change the rest of the colors on the uni? It would look terrible to not have matching pants and stripes on the jersey. With HD, our whites and yellow helmet look amazing on tv. They really pop.

Would i have to get a whole new wardrobe? What about TD? would you change the look to match the more gold color?

if our uniforms had black somewhere, that'd be nice.

Is this because someone that knows nothing about football said "That's not gold, it's yellow."?

I also remember that starting in 1980 the facemasks changed from grey to the current purple.
Also, the letter decals seemed a bit more "blocky" prior to the '80 season.....They also allowed players to place merit tiger head decals on their helmets before '80.

All I've known is the canary yellow, so I wouldn't want to see a change.

The uniform shade of gold appears to have changed somewhat over the years but the current scheme of old gold/yellow (call it what you want) with 2 purple stripes and one white stripe should remain. This is pretty much the same combination on the pants. I have always looked at the helmets and the pants representing the color combination of a tiger and its stripes. Look at the fur of a tiger and you will see gold with white and dark stripes. Tigers surely do not look like Notre Dame or Army gold, or even the Pro Combat gold. We are the Tigers. Our uniforms are very unique and make us look like tigers.

Our band wears the official LSU color scheme. The deep purple and the old gold look, not metallic like ND. I personally love this color combination and that would be even more unique then the blue/canary combo we have developed over the years. Actually, Missouri went back to their old gold recently and it lokks a ton better than the yellow.

I like the color we have now. It's very close to the opposite of our purple and why our unis look so sharp IMO. Same with UF.