Remember when the Suns were known as “The Purple Gang,” played in “The Purple Palace” and went a long way toward bringing a forgotten color back into the stream of sports consciousness?  Don’t look now – and it’s much more subtle than when the Diamondbacks did the same thing – but the Suns are being de-purpled before our very eyes. The team is sticking with the same uniforms this season — white at home, purple on the road and orange as the alternate, “wild card” jersey – but word is that things could change not far down the road. And it’s becoming obvious that the new regime is much more enamored with the other end of the team’s color pallet. This year’s slogan: “Welcome to Planet Orange” will be plastered all over the Valley this week as the team slathers orange paint all over town. The team’s media guide is all-but purple-less from cover to cover. And everywhere you look, from personnel apparel to the Suns Dancers to the new $100,000 game floor, it’s obvious that purple is being phased out whenever new purchases are made within the walls of the organization. 
Orange and black? That’s not the Suns, it’s Halloween. It’s

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State, It’s the Cincinnati Bengals and the Philadelphia Flyers. Whatever happened to being unique? Maybe if I liked orange as a color more, I wouldn’t be so red with frustration – but I think it’s more the end of an era that has me, um, blue. Much like the Diamondbacks and their Sedona Red, the color that was synonymous with Valley pro sports is also in the sunset of its career with the original franchise. I guess with Jerry Colangelo – a purple guy to the end – no longer in control, it was bound to happen – but it doesn’t make it any easier to accept. Orange you gonna miss purple? If it ever happens, I know I will.

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