re: I should know this but why do we not wear purple (Home) jerseys more often for home games

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Because the purple jerseys with yellow pants are nasty and should never be worn IMO.

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listen man, if you don’t like how purple and gold look together you clearly haven’t been indoctrinated enough.

you’ll be picked up for the LSU Reeducation Camp tomorrow, so don’t panic when the bag goes over
your head

I prefer the purple jerseys at home, so we can look like St. Martinville of the 80's.

Because you are under the age of 25 and do not understand LSU's tradition and history of the white jerseys.

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There are a lot of LSU fans who don’t know that- or even pay attention to what color we wear. No need to be a dick.

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most people notice and care about our uniforms. If we didn't care, why don't we just copy Penn State and wear a boring, generic uniform?

I like our purple jerseys, but not with the yellow pants and helmet. Purple jersey with white pants and helmet looks fantastic.

I seem to recall back in the Dalton Hilliard days and thereabouts we wore purple quite a bit more, like at least 4 to 5 of those 11 reg season games back then. Or maybe I'm off my rocker and have foggy memory. Always like the purple especially in the 80's when the shoulder pad white would sneak through the mesh.

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Games like the ole miss game make me wish we’d do shite like that when we need a breather

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There's a huge segment of our fans who believe the purple jersey is bad luck.

There’s some deep cultural memories of the early 90’s when LSU was practically putrid and constantly getting abused in those purple jerseys. This led to a superstitions that not only were the white ones good luck, but that the purple ones were cursed similar to Notre Dame fans and the green jerseys.

Superstitious LSU fans are always skeptical of purple jerseys and day games. For a long time, LSU’s record showed a clear statistical advantage for wearing white and playing at night, but there was some serious selection bias explaining that. Day games were televised, meaning that for decades, LSU only played during the day when they were facing a highly ranked opponent. They wore purple at home during some of their worst seasons in franchise history. Thus, the juju was born.

LSU almost never wears purple in SEC play, and when they do, it’s against Miss St or Vanderbilt. Purple is for rent-a-wins only, because any time LSU loses in purple, the fanbase collectively loses their minds and bitches about how those unis are cursed and never should be worn.

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Because the purple jerseys with yellow pants are nasty and should never be worn IMO.

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Guess it’s good our colors are purple and GOLD! Only a troll calls it yellow

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White Tiger

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Because we like the whites.

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Checks out.

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Was that the game we wore purple pants also?

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The game I recall we wore purple pants was against a shitty Kentucky team who beat us. Thus the superstition of never wearing purple pants again was started. Late 80's or so.