Colors

[stevehj197]

It's a slack time of year, so if you're bored... how many colors can we come up with for athletes' last names ? I have thought of 7 pretty quickly. And that's w/o looking at a list of colors, which would make it a lot easier.

[tafnut]

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Not pushing the envelope too far on real colors, here's 15:
Paul Blue
Geno White
Ron Brown
Larry Black
Stanley Redwine
Darrell Green
Arthur Orange
Johnny Gray
Damu Cherry
Lorna Silver
Jeff Gold
Jhonnette Lemon
Matt Rose
Katie Scarlet
Wayne Ruby

I'm sure there's more exotic colors I don't know.

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George Puce

[5k Guy]

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Verdell Olive(r)

[Buttermilk]

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Ed Red.

[Powell]

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Jayson Lavender (a 5.44 pole vaulter)

[Powell]

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And, if we don't limit ourselves to last names, there's also Jade Johnson.

[billthedog]

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Lots of additional Grays, I imagine. Nellie Gray, Stanfor shot puttere of the early 30s is one that comes to mind.

[buckeye II]

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Jasmin (Jones) Keller

There was a high school girl from Ohio in the early 90's (small school :57-:58 400) who had both a first and last name of color:
Amber Mustard

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There's always other languages, of course, like for German Sepp Schwarz, Sabine Braun, Heinz Weiss and Esther Rot.

The early favorite for the '68 Olympics in the TJ (ranked No. 1 in '67) was Aleksandr Zolotorayev: zoloto is Russian for gold.

[Buttermilk]

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Goldfinger. Not many know that he was quite the discus thrower (No, Odd Job couldn't match him).

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Who can cite the Olympic medal won by Oddjob?

[tafnut]

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Won a silver medal in light-heavyweight weight-lifting in 1948

[Conor Dary]

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Silver, 1948 Olympics Weightlifting.

[Conor Dary]

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Pipped at the line!