East Carolina Pirates Tickets

About The East Carolina Pirates

Their football team is currently a member of the Conference USA, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The team originated in the year 1932, in Greenville, North Carolina. Earlier, the team used to play their home games at the Stadium that was located in the main campus. The session commenced from the 1949 to the 1962 season. The team played its home games at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium every year since 1963 with the exception of the year 1999 Miami game.

The stadium is located south of East Carolina’s main campus near the intersection of South Charles Boulevard and 14th Street. The team has won five conference championships and eight bowl games till date.

The Pirates official colors are old gold and royal purple. Currently the color of the helmets is metallic purple with gold writing. Uniforms are all purple, purple and white, or all white. There is a very interesting story about the history of the mascot of the team. The “pirate” is the official mascot of the university. Earlier it was known as Pee Dee the Pirate, but later Chancellor Howed dropped Pee Dee from the name. The first mascot was Buc, a Great Dane. He was the mascot from the year 1958, until his death in the year 1961.