Posted on 09/01/2025 10:19:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The 2005 Green Wave football team didn't play a home game because of the damage from the devastating hurricane
Tulane coach Jon Sumrall said that Northwestern denied his team’s request to wear white jerseys on Saturday to honor the 2005 Green Wave team.
Friday was the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in the city of New Orleans. The hurricane is one of the worst natural disasters in United States history; a majority of New Orleans was flooded and over 1,000 people died as the city dealt with long-term effects from the storm.
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The damage from Katrina forced Tulane to cancel the entire fall semester and the 2005 team ended up playing all 12 of its games on the road because of the damage to the Louisiana Superdome. As stadiums across the state of Louisiana and the surrounding areas were booked for football games, Tulane’s home games ended up being played at six different stadiums.
Tulane players didn’t have the Green Wave logo decals on their helmets on Saturday, like the 2005 team did in its first game of the season against Mississippi State. And after the team’s 23-3 win over Northwestern on Saturday, Sumrall said the team wanted to go further and wear their white road jerseys, but Northwestern didn’t agree to the idea.
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Northwestern should have claimed they needed to wear white to honor blah blah blah. It can be a victim-off. As a matter of fact, don’t bother playing the game, just declare the winner to be the team with the most “disadvantaged” players.
Surely this is a joke...
A team had to place somewhere other than their home stadium... BFD...
Representing the chocolate city wearing white?
Chicago never misses an opportunity to displease.
I’m confused. Is it they wanted to wear “throwback” uniforms WITH the decal?
I’m pretty sure the home team chooses what to wear. I don’t know how NW would get to determine who wore what for a road game.
I saw a game last year? where the away team didn’t wear the proper uniforms. They were charged with a timeout at the very beginning of the game and another timeout at the beginning of the 2nd half.
The Northwestern coach said in his presser today that he talked to the Tulane coach yesterday. Also pointed out that he went to NOLA to help with the cleanup from Katrina when he was in college. The goofy accusation that somehow Northwestern was “disrespecting” NOLA is the Tulane coach trying to get the local community to pay attention to his program.
But this has been going on in football since at least the 20's.
Normally the home team wears darker unis. The road team wears white or another light color. (Games at LSU flip that; it’s their tradition.) Switching from that requires both teams to agree. Tulane didn’t ask to wear white until August 17, although this game has been scheduled for close to 10 years.
Much ado about nothing. Not Katrina, mind you, that was something. But uniforms, meh.
As a Northwestern fan, we didn’t disrespect NOLA, but we sure disrespected the game of football. Awful “performance”.
There were far more things that occurred prior to Katrina that made this not the most devastating natural, but in my eyes, the most devastating human caused disaster in history. The total incompetence of the Mayor (failed to declare an emergency early so as to trigger systems to evacuate citizens, delayed in taking federal assistance), the lack of renovating the levy’s on Lake Pontchartrain (know inadequacies for decades). I’m sure there is more, but I wanted to highlight the big ones. I’m not losing sight of the fact that this was and is a demoncrat run city, and won’t let others try to sell me on the natural disaster part.
I thought the home team got the choice.
I recall Tennessee wanting to wear black and orange for Halloween a few years ago. South Carolina went along with it.
My friends and relatives know when they ask me for something and I say “No” that is the end of the conversation. I don’t have to provide a reason. They asked, I answered, period.
It’s been 20 years . Get over it.
As an old Tulane grad, I get a chill up my spine whenever I read of Tulane beating anyone in football.
Either team can request, but both teams have to agree.
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