Pittsburgh why black and yellow

I have. Guess what comes up? Shirts and garments that look like this. Doesn't look much like Pittsburgh apparel, does it? If Pittsburgh truly is Black and Gold, why are clothes coming up that look like the New Orleans saints? Furthermore, when you follow the actual URL www. Waaaaait a minute. So if the Saints are a true black and gold, have Pittsburgh sports teams actually been black and yellow all along? Have I been living a giant lie my whole life? Well, not quite. If you look up the Saint colors in the Pantone database, it's labeled as "rich gold.

So what does all this mean? What has my research revealed? Should it be Black and Goldenyellow? I guess if you held a gun to my head I'd say black and gold is what's more correct. I know what you're thinking. If that's how I feel why did I name the company black and yellow? Glad you asked. I'll give you three definite reasons. Not only done to death, but exploited and embraced by the dorkiest of people. Yes, I said "dorky.

Cheap shirts that skirt around saying Pittsburgh Steelers and usually end up being worn by your grandma on Sunday. When I think of the term "Black and Gold" I think of super lame stuff. In recent years, the brilliance of the Aztec gold had faded, and some began to question whether we had to paint the bridges yellow after all.

Did all our bridges have to be the same shade? Why couldn't we paint, say, the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Street bridges -- the "Three Sisters" -- in different colors, to make them look like an Andy Warhol screen print? Did we really need to have bridges that looked like load-bearing Terrible Towels?

Among the colors proposed were such interior-decorator hues as "perfect peach" and "purple ice. Tom Sokolowski, who as head of The Andy Warhol Museum is sort of the city-planning equivalent to Joan Rivers at the Oscars, groused that bridges "are not bath towels. The plan, not surprisingly, didn't go anywhere.

The truth is that people seem to like having bridges that match their sports teams. Hell, half of us have living rooms that match our sports teams, and the Pittsburgh design aesthetic is often that, if it's good enough for the family room, it can go anywhere.

Besides, watching a Steelers game these days is emasculating enough What you're really in the mood for, of course, is a few human sacrifices. Nebby post alert: Joke candidacy in Edgewood confused social media users, but not voters. Can you find out anything about the Jewish community here that would have supported a temple?

Where is Dream Street located? What was the name of the burlesque house that used to be on Diamond Street excuse me, Forbes Avenue between Smithfield and Wood? What do you know of its history? Why are the 31st and 40th Street bridges arched so much? It's not like they have to allow room for tall-masted ships to pass underneath Inherited expectations: My path towards healing.

The Steelers present a much simpler story. They wore red, white and blue in their early years. They began introducing black and gold in , according to The Pittsburgh Press, and first wore their present-day colors on their uniforms in The introduction of gold to the uniforms can be found in a handful of archived newspaper accounts from Jan.

The numbers on the backs of the shirts also will be black, bordered with gold. Each player will wear black stockings, with three bands of gold encircling the stockings. In this connection the owners have decided to add a bit of splash in the way of diamond livery.