I’ve seen high school and college teams called the Blue Devils. There’s also a drum and bugle corps in CA with this name. Why would a team choose to be called the Blue Devils? Why not just the devils, or the Red Devils, or the Green Devils, or something? Who was the first team to use this name, and what were its origins?
Neil
Apparently the name comes from French soldiers who fought in World War I.
http://www.duke.edu/web/Archives/history/why_blue_devil.html
The traditional Red Devils hold gasoline. The Blue Devils contain kerosene.
Blue Devils serve in the innermost circle of the Inferno, where the souls of the damned are frozen in ice. If they get reassigned to warmer circles, they regain their “normal” red coloration.
They are not actually blue, they are a manifestation of the Greys but poor lighting during a few abductions started the confusion.
A direct application of the Law of Chromatic Conservation. For every demon of a given colour, a demon of the complementary shade must exist. Spiritual beings of benevolent aspect produce electromagnetic radiation across all frequencies, thus appearing “radiant” and “a white light” to mortals. Malevolent beings can only radiate in a limited portion of the spectrum until and unless they repent.
Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan
Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University
“You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reach through reason.”
I thought it was because they sat in on sessions with Blind Lemon Jefferson.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
We have the Duke Blue Devils…which is usually one of the top college basketball teams in the country. It has nothing to do with actual “Devil”…we have the Carolina Tarheels (Carolina Blue) we have the State Wolfpack (Red) and several other teams…you gotta have something tied in with the school colors…while it is a “shade” of blue…it is distinctly darker than other shades of blue around here…