Maroon

In honor of tonight's College Football National Championship, I'd like to ask what the deal is with so many college football teams using maroon (burgundy/dark red/whatever) in their uniforms. I have reached the point where I automatically root against any team with maroon as their color. I'm not talking about having maroon in combination with another color. That is fine. There aren't THAT MANY good colors for sports teams, but there are just so many teams with maroon and white uniforms. For example:

Those are the uniforms of Alabama, Texas A&M, Nebraska, Stanford, and Oklahoma. And if you look at the uniforms Arkansas and Louisville, you'll notice they are barely different. Then there are a few teams that are very close like Ohio State, Wisconsin, and North Carolina State. Even if you just add in a little gold—it's unoriginal (see USC, Boston College, and Arizona State)—but at least it is something. It seems like half the games taking place on any given Saturday is the white team versus the maroon team.

The thing that is strange is how underused green is in basically all sporting uniforms. Perhaps it just isn't very masculine? Of the 4 major sports, the only teams I can think of that use green as their primary colors are the Oakland A's, the Boston Celtics, the Dallas Stars, and the Green Bay Packers. I can definitely think of more than 4 professional sports teams that use maroon for their colors.

There isn't really anything wrong with using maroon, I'd just like to see a little bit more originality out there.