Color Us Fans

 I love colors of sports uniforms and fall leaves and the bright plumage of birds. Oddly enough, I love old movies and TV shows in black-and-white. They let us dream about what colors Miss Landers (the teacher on "Leave It To Beaver") wore that night when she came over for a cookout, and we were startled to see Lucille Ball's red red hair in the movie "The Long Long Trailer," because as Lucy Ricardo, you couldn't tell the difference between her hair or Ethel Mertz's.  Or Fred's, for that matter.

We see the Ravens' purple looking great on color TV and at the football palace downtown. If you wonder what those colors really are, you can Google the exact color code for each team.

(I saw a sign on a hardware store once that said "No man can buy custom color paint without a note from his wife. It's just like the combinations of colors on the paint machine at Lowe's. Just by putting the right numbers in your computer, you can "mix" custom colors and make your wallpaper the same shade as Lamar's jersey.)

By the way, we call them The Purple And Black, but the Ravens' "purple" is really  Persian Indigo (#241075), and it's augmented by University Of California Gold (#BC9428), NCS Red (#C8032B), White (#FFFFFF) and Black (#000000).

Over in the land of 10,000 lakes, the Minnesota Vikings dress in KSU Purple (first used by Kansas State University #4F2185), Philippine Yellow (#FFC704), and Crayola's Gold (#EABF99).

And please don't make the mistake of saying the Baltimore Orioles dress in orange! It's Sinopia, if you please (#DF4400), White (#FFFFFF), Black (#000000) and Philippine Silver (#B5B6B8).

We have a car whose color is officially known as "Hot Lava." It's a distant cousin to Sinopia.

I think I have a Cousin Sinopia, too!