True colors
Our man Darnell Mayberry wrote an interesting story today about the possible team colors of Oklahoma City’s NBA franchise, focusing on black and gold. True gold, which would be all right.
Not my favorite color combination, but not bad. The best color combo in sports is red and black. Texas Tech style. Love that look. It’s even marginally politically correct in Oklahoma, since it covers both sides of Bedlam, though not equally, since in the last 15 years or so OSU has adopted orange as its more dominant color over black.
Young designer Kasey Moody, the amateur who penned the smoking-hot “Barons” uniform that graced our April 14 cover, said his first choice was red and silver, and that just shows the kid has good sense. Red and silver is a fantastic color combo, too. Very, very striking.
Of course, orange could work well in the NBA. Very well. Many people like the southwestern motif for OKC’s NBA franchise, and orange, with various mingles of blue, red and yellow, would definitely shout Oklahoma.
Sometimes, simple is better. The Celtics’ green and white is classic, stylish and unmistakable. Blue and white has fallen out of favor in the major-league sports, but that could be a classic look, too. Or better yet, blue and silver. No Bedlam ties there. Blue and black, I’m not so big on. It’s been done too many times.
Truth is, there are a hundred color combinations that could work. Even combos you wouldn’t think of. Red and green. Blue and orange. Red and purple. Red and copper (think Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
It’s fun to think about. And just as long as the colors are designed to augment the new ThunderBirds nickname, I’m cool with it.
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Barry, why would we want our team to represent a stinky dirty lake? If we are going to represent one of the many embarrassing things in this fine state we might as well have fun with it. A few of my favs would be…. Trailer Trash, Wife Beaters, or The Dropouts (to represent our fine school system).
I’m just kidding around but out of all the options the oklahoman gave us I think the Thunderbirds is pretty weak.
Thunderbirds sounds like a D league team.
Why does the name even have to be named something directly about the state?
Good color combos: black/gold; red/silver; royal blue/white
So, if you call them the, “Thunderbirds”, is the short of that the, “Birds”? Like it’s the Birds over the Hawks!!! Ugh, not a pretty picture!