Why do the Dallas Cowboys wear blue and gray?

Answer 1

The home team always wears their white uniform and the visitor wears their colors.

Actually, the home team wears their colors and the visitors wear white, traditionally. The cowboys are the only team that wears white at home on a constant basis.

There have been many teams over the years to wear white at home. In the 1960's the L.A. Rams that were coached by George Allen wore white at home, as well as the San Diego Chargers. I heard Tex Schramm this in the 1980's on his radio show called "Ask Tex Schramm." It was on KRLD, which is an AM station in Dallas. He said going into the inaugural, 1960 season, since they had no tradition themselves, they dressed in white so the home fans could see the home colors of all the other teams in the league. This caused them to make a tradition of their own. Quite simple, actually!

Because of this tradition to wear White at home, it also allowed Dallas to wear White at any visitor stadium, because the home team wears their colors. Back in the late 70's and 80's (think Staubach, Danny White, etc), when the Cowboys wore their dark color uniform they lost. So it was kind of bad luck for them in those years. Even now it is pretty rare to see them in the dark color uniform.

Often, teams in warm weather regions will wear their whites at home as an advantage over the visiting team. Darker colors hold in more heat than lighter colors; lighter colors reflect more heat.

The first is ridiculous! By NFL rule, the home team gets to choose which jersey it will wear - light or dark. The visiting team must then wear the other. By tradition, most home teams choose dark, but Dallas chooses to wear light at home - and here's the to the question - for superstitious reasons. Consequently, Dallas would wear light all the time - except - if they visit a team doing what they do. I don't understand why their opponents don't always do the same thing when Dallas is the visitor, forcing them to wear dark.

The Cowboys beat the Redskins yesterday (12/27/09) wearing their blue jerseys, and in doing so, clinched a spot in the playoffs. That should settle the whole superstition idea. However, back in the 70's and 80's, it really did feel like they lost more often while wearing blue than they won. And I'm pretty sure they lost their first Super Bowl to the Baltimore Colts while wearing blue. Go figure! No one is more superstitious than an athlete, that's for sure.

I was always told that one of the reason's the Cowboys decided to wear the white jersies at home is because in cowboy movies the good guys always wore the white hats.

Well, they wear white jerseys almost every game nowadays, and they LOSE a lot of games...wearing the white jerseys. I, personally, am sick of the white jerseys. I think it's time for them to make the switch and start wearing the blue jerseys at home.

Maybe the WHITE jerseys are jinxed now...from OVERUSE!!!

Answer 2

B/c the home team usually wears white and if the home team wears a dark shirt the visiting team must wear their bright shirt.

What are you talking about? You're talking NBA. In the NFL, the visitor wear white and the home team wear their traditional color.

That's because Dallas wasn't part of the original NFL. When the team was created, the management decided that since the team had no home tradition, the would play with white jersey. Then, through the years, that became the tradition.

Answer 3

The Cowboys' colors are royal blue, silver blue metallic and white. Tex Schramm, Dallas' original president and general manager, reportedly believed that the colors were attractive to viewers watching the Cowboys on television.

Answer 4

The Dallas Cowboys' home jerseys are the white ones they wear most of the time. The tradition was begun in the 1960s by Tex Schramm, the team's original president and general manager. Schramm believed that Dallas fans preferred seeing the other NFL teams wearing the familiar home jerseys they wore in televised games. As a result, the Cowboys usually wear white at home, except on Thanksgiving when they don blue-and-white double-star throwback jerseys.

Answer 5

The Cowboys don't always wear white. Through a mixup, they even wound up wearing blue jerseys at home for the 2013 Thanksgiving Day game against the New York Giants.

Dallas traditionally wears white jerseys at home and on the road -- unless the opposing team prefers to wear white.

The tradition began in the 1960s when Tex Schramm, the Cowboys' innovative general manager decided Dallas fans would appreciate seeing opposing teams wearing their home uniforms at the Cotton Bowl.

Answer 6

White.