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TL;DR: they used to be black or white but changed to yellow for colour TV.
by foreigner 7y ago
TL;DR: they used to be black or white but changed to yellow for colour TV.
- lultimouomo 7y agoAlso, there aren't two different colors of balls, yellow and green. There is one official color that some people judge as yellow and some as green.
- ArcMex 7y agoSay it ain't so!
- willismichael 7y agoBeing a stickler about color theory, I keep trying to get people to say that tennis balls are chartreuse, but I don't have a lot of luck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(color) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(color) To me, calling that color "yellow or green" is like trying to use the words "red or yellow" to describe orange.
- chrisseaton 7y agoThey look more like yellow than chartreuse to me. Colour names are all opinion - not much point arguing about it or trying to convince anyone of your opinion.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoSnooker was always a fun watch on B&W TV. You kind of figured out the different greys, with a little help from commentary pointing out that the blue was now behind the yellow... err... :) Surprisingly it worked well enough to be worth watching.
- Steve44 7y agoThere was a famous 'gaff' by commentator Ted Lowe, who said: "Steve is going for the pink ball - and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."
- dmurray 7y agoWorth noting that this sounds like a joke or a gaffe, but might have been a very reasonable thing to say. Assuming the green was on or near its spot (its starting position), which is likely, every snooker fan would know which ball was the green.