Orange can be found just about anywhere if you look for it.
Anywhere, that is, except the NFL.
Please don't respond that the Cincinnati Bengals use Orange. OK, it might be a cousin of Orange, but their tiger-striped helmet is closer to UF red than anything.
The Cleveland Browns, you say, have Orange helmets. Don't go there. I'm sure Syracuse fans would say that's Orange. Vol Nation knows better.
And what about Chicago and Miami, which use splashes of Orangeyness and occasionally break out the OJ's (Orange jerseys)? Well I'd say they're closest to real Orange. But compared to the Tampa Bay Bucs' former unis, you can see why they aren't authentic O, neither.
But what is Orange, I say on this Super Bowl Sunday, are these shoes I photographed Jan. 31 at a Jacksonville thrift store.
Notice how they draw the eye. Notice how they radiate joy in that sea of drabby brown and gray. Tennessee-Orange jerseys taking the field do the same thing in the college sports world. It's too bad it doesn't happen in the NFL.
Jeff
PS -- Shoes are considered modes of transportation here at the BOVB. My friend Dan said they aren't, because they essentially function as tires do on a vehicle, but aren't vehicles themselves. My brother Rod says they are vehices, I reckon because you get in them to travel. The BOVB is adopting the latter policy.
Syracuse's mascot is the ORANGEMEN, so of course they are orange. You need to be more liberal with your color palate because there are other shades of orange besides Vols orange
ReplyDeleteYou found these at a thrift store because they are so incredibly ugly their owner didn't WANT them. She had to make room for shoes that don't blind a person...good Lord! Who would wear those things?!
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