Why syracuse orangemen

After a winning athletics meet with Hamilton College, Syracuse students wanted colors as bold as they were. They considered orange, with blue as a secondary color, but orange alone was not claimed by any other school, and thus, was Syracuse's for the taking.

It was adopted unanimously by a student committee, faculty, the Alumni Association, and Trustees, and remains Syracuse University's official color to this day. Today, you'll see students sporting orange year-round, but especially on game days when the whole Syracuse and Central New York community joins and displays their Orange pride.

Legend of 44 44 is one of the most fabled numbers ever associated with a college football program. Since , eleven players have worn the number and three earned All-American honors. Those three—Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, and Floyd Little—rank among the finest running backs ever to play the college game.

Oh and I mentioned that bit about how Syracuse was progressive even if it wasn't meaning to be. Well that's part of the decision to shorten to Orange as well. Orangewomen always felt tacked on and awkward. A variant version of the "real" school nickname. Something we did "for the ladies" to make them feel better. And I gotta tell you, in the year , this really isn't a place for separate Orangemen and Orangewomen anymore.

There's no reason to go back to a time when we separated the two. We're all Orange together. One group of us doesn't need to be one thing while the other is something else.

Lastly, and again I hate to agree with Nike or the basic tenants of the DOC Gross Bible, but this is one instance where branding makes sense. You wanna promote Syracuse? No matter what sport or athlete or coach or program Print the t-shirt. It makes fiscal sense and it makes business sense. Really, I think that's all there is to it. Yes, there is nostalgic value in the Orangemen name. And Orange certainly isn't the most straight-forward concept in the world.

But maybe that's part of what makes Syracuse unique. No one else can lay claim to being called the Orange and no one else can claim to have a mascot as weirdly wonderful as Otto. Sure, it doesn't make any sense that a school in Upstate New York has a mascot and nickname that recall a fruit that doesn't grow within 3, miles of the campus, but, there's a beauty in that.

It's the same way new professional team names don't have the same weight as names like the Dodgers, Lakers or Red Sox. None of those names make sense today, especially where some of those teams are located, and if you were starting from scratch, you wouldn't even consider any of them. But there's a beautiful absurdity to the fact that we accept that there are two professional baseball teams named after the color of their footwear three if you count the Reds.

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