At every level from grade school to the pros, clubs usually honor the white-at-home, colors-on-the-road standard. Still, exceptions are out there. Take the Los Angeles Lakers. 1967 saw the storied team adopt a radically new look.
Clayton J. Howell partnered with Neil C. Ward to create the Orange Crush Company in 1916, but traces of the company date back to ten years earlier.
PepsiCo, Inc. was established through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Pepsi-Cola was created in the late 1890s by Caleb Bradham, a New Bern, N.C. pharmacist. Frito-Lay, Inc. was formed by the 1961 merger of the Frito Company, founded by Elmer Doolin in 1932, and the H. W. Lay Company, founded by Herman W. Lay, also in 1932.