The recreation soccer team Wayne Simmons played on as a youngster was easy to spot: Besides the orange jerseys his team wore, they also took the field with orange hair that the kids had sprayed before their games. It’s one of Simmons’ favorite youth-sports memories.
“At this time the movie The Big Green was released by Disney, and our team adopted the team nickname “The Big Orange” since we had orange jerseys that season,” Simmons recalls. “At one of our games, a few players used orange hairspray left over from Halloween and played the game with orange hair. We had so much fun that the entire team began spraying our hair before each game for the remainder of the season.”
That colorful tradition carried on for several fun-filled seasons.