Dark Qiviut

It’s really refreshing when a team seemingly “owns” a color.

• For their first nine seasons, the Diamondbacks wore purple (including their 2001 title run) and are still remembered fondly for it.
• As mentioned earlier, the Padres wore brown from 1969-1990, one of the only teams to wear that color dominantly, and ownership brought ‘em back.
• Many franchises wear green. The Packers, Jets, and especially Celtics are known for their green. Not so much baseball. Only the Oakland A’s (which replaced navy blue with Kelly Green while in Kansas City) wear that color. The Devil Rays wore sea green from 2001-07 before becoming the Rays and rebranding to navy and Columbia blue.
• The Nashville Predators adapted an identity of their own and have worn it since 2011: they’re the only team in the four major sports to wear gold as their dominant color. (Course, the Lakers typically wear purple on the road and gold at home, but one doesn’t dominate the other.)
• The old, short-lived Montreal Maroons (not Canadiens) typically wore, well, maroon.
• The Phillies wore red for much of their franchise, but for more than twenty years, their red was burgundy, and that was their color when they clinched their first championship in 1980.