School campaign, you in?

Sort of a spinoff to the "Do you cheer" thread...

If the school you cover--we're talking NCAA hoops here--has a white out, or a black out, or whatever, do you play along and dress the same as the fans? I ask because it seems like every time there's a white out game on TV (today it was Louisville), everyone along press row is dressed in white.

I have had one of these white out games, and showed up in black (not on purpose, but because I didn't give it much thought.) Some folks looked at me strangely, as if I had done something wrong. And yeah, I was one of only a handful who didn't wear white.

Just wondering...

 

No effin way. I seriously try to avoid either of the team's colors when dressing for a game I'm covering.

 

Don't wear what everyone's wearing, don't wear the opposite. When in doubt, go naked.

 

How many slub sports writers only wear white or blue dress shirts? Seems to me the guys on press row could have just been wearing their standard dress and suddenly had 20,000 college kids play along.

 

I go out of my way to NOT wear the colors of the school I'm covering, even if it's just a polo shirt that happens to be the same color.

 

What the hell?

 

And there's your answer.

 

No. White is a pretty common dress shirt color.

 

I'd rather service a hamster.

 

I goofed up the other day and wore an orange sweater to a playoff game where the home was wearing orange and I felt like an idiot all game.

 

I'd feel bad enough just for owning an orange sweater.

 

And shows dirt too easily.

I wore green to games a lot, mainly because the teams I covered rarely used green themselves and rarely played green teams.

I can think of one high school that I covered, one NFL team (and the Jaguars were more greenish than green), four "away" high schools (two were one-timers at a state tournament) and two "away" colleges (Colorado State and Ohio) that wore green in over 10 years of working. Probably completely random and not backed up by a true statistical sample.