It’s à dark shade of maroon and most people would call it brown.
Like Fremantle shade of purple most people call blue.
The teal of Port Adelaide people would call blue, maybe even green (depending on the lighting conditions).
Fitzroy dropped the maroon to red but called it light maroon.
If Fitzroy had more say in the merger then the jumper would have been red... err lighter maroon
Even looking at pictures of the different maroon jumpers of Fitzroy their shades seemed to change from year to year. Even looking at replays of Brisbane Lions over the years sometimes the maroon looks more purple, sometimes more brown and sometimes a bit more reddish.
I think it’s the way the sun reflects on the jumper or how close your TV can pick up colours correctly. A bit like Carlton and Geelong sometimes look black and white.
But yes they did look very like Hawthorn because their maroon might actually been closer related to brown or a colour expert stating it to be brown!!!!
But officially they never been brown as Fitzroy has never been red (although that was the color they changed to), as Fremantle has never been blue.
In a sense that Brisbane Bears was the only club thar could take the identity of Fitzroy and retain both club colours.
The traditional maroon of Fitzroy and Queensland. Both had Gold and both had white in their history. So in that sense it was perfect.
Adding blue made it look like Fitzroy though...
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back then.
