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Nov 13, 2009 5:45 pm US/Central
"Purple Power" Showing Up All Over Fort Worth
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Even the local scarecrows are getting behind the Horned Frogs.
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All over the TCU campus, excitement is building as the Horned Frogs prepare to take on conference rival Utah.
The Frogs are ranked fourth nationally and ESPN's College Game Day is on campus. Purple shirts are the fashion of the day. There are purple banners on buildings and purple ribbons around campus trees. The purple craze is not just on campus.
"It's all over Fort Worth," said TCU freshman Calli Clarke. "Everybody in Fort Worth is representing tcu. And they're excited about the game!"
It started at city hall with Mayor Mike Moncrief holding up a TCU T-shirt during a council meeting.
"We are all Frogs at heart," Moncrief said, "whether we've got purple blood or not but this is a big deal!"
Moncrief declared friday Go Purple Day. And so city hall turned purple.
"All over city hall all you see is purple," Dakisha Boone, a city employee. "You would think a big egg plant exploded all over the place. Its really great!"
Tarrant County workers did the same at the courthouse.
Even the maternity ward at Harris Methodist got the city's newest citizens in on the act, giving purple bonnets to the newborn children.
And that's the craze businesses are cashing in on.
"TCU!" Yell the women at the Baker Street Pub in west Fort Worth as they receive glasses of purple beer from their waitress. "Go Frogs!"
At the pub the pints are dyed purple for the weekend.
And since the home game is a rare sellout, any business with a big screen wants to cash in. At Movie Tavern on Seventh Street in Fort Worth they're giving up one of their theatre screens to show the game.
"The phone rang within a half an hour of our first email out that we were going to do it," said Brian Marsters the theatre manager. "We're afraid we're going to fill the theatre and overflow into the lobby area where we do have eight large screen tv's."
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