Feel Good Friday - Team Colors!

[Amanda Barber]

Apparently, "on the Friday before Labor Day, National College Colors Day encourages everyone to display their team spirit. Across the United States students, parents, family, fans, and alumni will be wearing their team colors. Be sure you're celebrating by wearing your college team's colors and apparel."

While I don't feel passionate about most teams (and therefore, their colors), I do love the camaraderie on game days! Here's a picture of a shirt I usually reserve for those days...

So, community, what are your team's colors? Whether it's your college, your favorite team, or simply your favorite color - share them below!

[Ananjan_miniOrange]

Game days definitely have a different energy! I’d probably be showing up in blue, not necessarily for a team, just because it’s my safe choice😅 That's a good design as well @Amanda Barber 😂

[Amanda Barber]

Ha, love it Ananjan_miniOrange - I definitely tend to just dress in what's comfortable that day. Living in Wisconsin sometimes means grabbing the green and gold for the Green Bay Packers...and occasionally Red and White for the UW-Madison Badgers. They're not great colors for my complexion though. 😅

[Brita Moorus]

Mine would probably be Atlassian blue 💙 and forest green 🌲 Those are definitely the colors I gravitate toward most.

Forest green especially always feels calm, warm, and easy to wear 😊 💚

[Amanda Barber]

Great color choices! Atlassian blue is definitely one of my top colors - a friend even had a similar color for bridesmaid dresses a few years ago and it was 🔥. 

[Michael Karl]

Well, thanks Amanda for the splendid topic. I am working in a team of eight (not long ago nine) software devs responsible for maintaining and reshaping the content management system used by our editors to create news articles / audio / video for our media outlet.

I asked Gemini to create a logo for our team in the style of a NASA mission patch. For now, we don't have wearables, but I made background images for our computer- and smartphone-screens.

The buildings in the background represent the town-hall and two churches of the city of Osnabrück which is where we are based. The nine stars represent our staff. I've chosen a latin motto as a nod to the bold way the US military does.

I also had coffee mugs made. Since I am currently working from home and my mug is stationed at the office, I can only offer a prototype image, but I think you get the idea

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Okay then, so much for my contribution to the topic.

[Amanda Barber]

What a fun idea to build/solidify the team culture. I always love some company swag and this is such a fun way to represent the team! A few years ago, we did team shirts. Nothing fancy, but it was fun at the retreat to have our own little "uniform" haha!

[Stephen_Lugton]

Since the team I support plays rugby, it's a fairly obvious choice of colour; All Blacks

[Amanda Barber]

It seems like I suppose this team every day in my attire, @Stephen_Lugton - ok, maybe not but it's my preferred color for clothing nowadays.

[Joe Montibello _he_him_]

I don't follow sports anymore but I still feel a fondness for the Boston Celtics and their green. I work at Dartmouth College, also a green but darker.

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate!

[Amanda Barber]

💚💚💚💚

[Amanda Barber]

I'll add a pic of my kiddo for tax. These are my college's colors - pic from a million years ago at the Wisconsin State Fair. My oldest is considering UW-Milwaukee for college - and it's where my husband and I met! 🖤💛🖤💛

[Anne Saunders]

I went to a wee-tiny liberal arts uni with no football team, but our colors were forest green and gold. We were more likely to be in a theater or a gallery than on a field or a court 😂

When it comes to sports, living in Oklahoma City means I Thunder up in blue and orange! 

[Chris Rainey]

Marching with the Pride of West Virginia Mountaineer Marching Band was one of the greatest things I've ever gotten to do and I'll always cherish my time there. My heart bleeds gold and blue.

Sharing some of my favorite memories from my time with the band. Thanks for the trip back down memory lane.

WVU Drumline 2015 - CRT

WVU Drumline 2015 - Tunnel (Texas Tech Hill performance) - YouTube

WVU Drumline 2015 - Avengers (Keynotes Concert)

[Amanda Barber]

Wow, love this, @Chris Rainey!!! I marched in high school (our colors were blue and gold, too!), but not college. Such good memories from marching band though. Thank you so much for sharing the videos! 💙💛

[Amy Schindel]

My family ties run deep with Iowa State University.  Not necessarily for sports, but for the academics for sure (My dad, 5 of his siblings, my mom's sister, both my brothers, my husband, myself and our oldest son have graduated from ISU, along with most of those people meeting their spouses at ISU... and my middle son is attending now.)  I have also worked for ISU or the ISU Foundation since graduation - 28 years and counting.  

My daughter however... is 17 and is looking at the rival school across the state.  She does want to be a doctor, so I have said that is the one acceptable reason to go to the "yellow and black"  school. :) 

I do also have a shirt that says "I just hope both teams have fun" lol. I break that out for things like the super bowl or other sporting events where I make an appearance for the people and snacks but don't really care what is happing on the TV.

[Amanda Barber]

Oh wow! I love that your 17yo is considering the rival school...sounds like such a "teenagery" thing to do! ;)