Monday
Jan052009
Why Football & Bridal Showers Don't Mix
January 5, 2009 The happy couple-to-be chose his (yes, his) favorite football team's colors for the bridal shower cake, resulting in...well, this:
I'm not sure which is worse: the color scheme or the smashed floral squid-like creature lurking on top, its rosy tendrils poised to snag any unsuspecting guest who strays too close. ("Oh, look, hon! They spelled it right and everythin...AAAUGGH! It's got me! Getitoffgetitoff -HELP!!!)
Despite my dizzying array of sports knowledge, I'm afraid I don't know which football team out there dresses in orange, purple, and pale puke green. Any ideas, Ashley W.?
Reader Comments (113)
Purple and gold can only be the hapless Minnesota Vikings.
Ummm... is it supposed to be for Da Bears of Chicago? Oh the horror.... Even the female Bear's fans would think this was awful!!!
It really goes well with the pink table cloth!
Frightening and ugly in one cake!
Word verification seems aptly appropriate "worstso" -this is the worst wreck so far this year ;)
"its rosy tendrils poised to snag any unsuspecting guest who strays too close"...Fantastic commentary as always! The first thing I thought when I looked at this was that it looked like a giant spider on top of a cake....Orange? hmmm...
~Bonnie B~
WV: OPPESS- Help! We're being oppessed...we're being oppessed!
It looks like orange and blue to me, which makes my best guess the Denver Broncos. And it is just the kind of thing a Denver Bronco fan would do (I saw not one, but four houses decorated in orange and blue christmas lights this year with the message "Go Broncos" spelled out.)
I bet it's a Clemson cake.
Sorry to curse on your blog. tee hee!
Clemson University colors are purple and orange but who knows if those colors were the intention of the Wreckorator. Maybe it's a colorblind attempt at gold and black? hehe
Can't explain the puke green, but my best guess for team would be the Florida Gators at UF. I'm not a sports fan by any account, but living in the heart of Gator Country for 20 years makes one sure to recognize blue and orange together as meaning only one thing.
Perhaps the purple is supposed to be blue. Orange and Blue are the colors of several teams (Chicago Bears, University of Illinois, Auburn University all come to mind immediately). Of course, that would mean that the green was an addition of the decorator and had nothing to do with the team color scheme. In reality, I don't think it matters what colors were on the cake, it would be ugly anyway. This just made it worse.
Gag. Someone's either colour-blind, or has a bad sense of colour coordination.
~Amy B.
Is it still a wreck if it is the customers fault for choosing a horrible color combination?
We cannot be held responsible for their bad taste. We just take their money and do what we are told. Cake prostitutes...that is what we are.
I turned to my fount of sports knowledge, my husband, who says that if it is a professional team, it might be the Broncos. Their colors are deep blue and orange. If that is the case, it only adds to the wreck factor. It could be a college team though and then, anything goes!
If it's college football, it's probably Lousiana State University. As for professional teams, I got nothing!
Maybe it's one of those things where you're supposed to stare at the cake for 30 seconds and then look at a blank white wall to see what the cake's colors actually are.
Maybe there's a lot of strife in the two families over who gets the roses. This could be a real peace-making cake, here.
Might that be for Clemson University?
It the famous Mile High squid from Denver! It's a shame he got caught in that rose bush.
Cause I really think that Purple should be Navy blue.
I would be so royally T.O.ed if this was my cake. Hilarious, because it's not. :-)
This cake is pretty wrecktastic.
If I had to venture a guess as to the football team in question, I'd go with the Minnesota Vikings. Their colors are purple and gold. Perhaps the puky green is really white in bad lighting.
Purple and orange are Clemson's colors- and quite the tacky combination! I guess the green is just to accent the beautiful roses with some leaves.....
EXCUSE me? That cake is freaking bee-yoo-ti-ful!!
Obviously, you are not a Florida Gators fan. Orange and Blue is the perfect color scheme for football, bridal showers, you name it
GO GATORS!
That would be Clemson's colors...minus the puke green!
I love the Washington Redskins and even had my wedding colors burgundy & gold. Heck we were introduced as Mr. & Mrs to the "Hail to the Redskins" Song...but our wedding cake, grooms cake & shower cakes were not football themed. Let alone had squid like roses on them. This is a wreck but not entirely the fault of the decorator. The person ordering played a hefty role in this abomination! I imagine she said. "I want to make sure everyone can get a rose w/ their piece" ::shudders::
Wow, I thought the cake underneath the flowery squid was just football-colored. It wasn't until the end of the commentary that I realized that was supposed to be part of a team's colors.
Word verification: empant. Rampant empathy?
Aren't the Broncos purple and orange? Oh, what do I know.
But I do know that I this cake hurts my eyes. Still, if they dished me up a slice, I'd eat it in a heartbeat.
I agree with Jocelyn; that can only be a Clemson cake!
Purple and orange belong to Clemson University in Clemson, SC!
I thought it was some sort of pseudo-Hindu pattern until I read "favorite football team colors." So I am way off base LOL
Is this supposed to be American football or "football" aka soccer team colors? Kinda hideous either way through no fault of the decorator.
And I quote: "I think cakes overall should use more orange, too, don't you? Year-round, I mean: orange is just underused."
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-sweets-autumn-awesomeness-in.html
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I know nothing about US football teams...I'm Canadian(I know nothing about Canadian football teams as well... :0))
Having said that... this is an awful cake...purple is one of my favorite colors but not like this!!!!!!!
Cheers
And I quote:
"I think cakes overall should use more orange, too, don't you? Year-round, I mean: orange is just underused."
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-sweets-autumn-awesomeness-in.html
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That woman is a saint, because I would NEVER allow something like that to happen!
I'm going to assume it's a college team, such as Clemson, which has purple and orange as their team colors. There are other colleges with the same drunken color combination, but Clemson stands out in my mind, mostly because my SIL graduated from there a few years ago.
Since my husband and I cheer for different college teams, our cake would have been plain white and no team related colors permitted.Thankfully, we eloped.
Well, as a native to Idaho, I can testify that blue and orange (if the flowers are indeed blue) are the colors of Boise State University. It's a running joke here that, between the construction-worker orange and the electric blue, you can see BSU fans coming from a mile away. XD (Though that cake looks more pumpkin and navy to me...)
If it's purple and orange, though, I'm stumped...
(Totally irrelevant but fun fact -- Boise State University's football field is bright blue -- we call it the Smurf Turf. Ducks have been known to crash-land on it thinking it's a lake.)
I love how the decorator put so much effort into the ::ahem:: decorations that there wasn't even room for the bride and groom's NAMES.
as a gamecock when I see those colors I see a Clemson fan.
No, the Broncos are blue and orange. The first thing I thought of when I saw that cake was, "Now THAT'S a Broncos cake!" Indeed, it is something a Broncos fan would do. Being from Denver myself we're quite proud of displays of affection for our team and not ashamed of it--even in cake form.
All hail Saint John of Elway. May his blessed memory live on in all our hearts.
I think that's orange and blue - Go Gators!
I also think that it's a PAINFUL image, colors and floral sunburst alike. I'm dizzy.
I think it's blue and orange. Go Gators! Or whatever.
I also think it's a painful sight! From the day glo orange to the floral sunburst... I'm dizzy.
I was thinking of the Dolphins, since they're orange and that sea-green blue color.
The funny thing is that no one knows of a team that's actually orange and purple (and green, if we're being picky), which means the decorator screwed up the colors, too! The purple should be blue OR the orange should be gold. Either way, it's gross.
The colors on this cake are PURPLE and ORANGE, not BLUE and ORANGE. This is clearly a Clemson cake...
It's a shame that correct spelling and nice penmanship had to be wasted on such a hideous looking cake.
Whew! Okay! So I'm not the only one seeing purple and orange...
Are we sure it's football? It looks like the Orange and Purple of the Phoenix Suns basketball...
Looks like Miami Dolphin fans.
you know those people who want a rose slice of cake? they all are in this family! that explains the zillion roses. i would kill my husband if me made me have such a yucky color cake!
Now being a color person, since these two colors are complementary colors (opposite each other on the color wheel), if you take a spatula and smear and blend the whole thing together, you will get the most wonderful putrid brown poo color!
I lived in Urbana for years and can't erase the mental picture of droves of Illini fans with bright orange pants. This could be a cake for any of them.
GO TIGERS!!!