Should Ravens  fans go all Steelers on us, and start waving purple towels?

The Ravens organization is giving out purple towels at this Sunday’s much-anticipated home game with the Pittsburgh Steelers and hoping they will use them to transform the stadium into a quivering bowl of purple Ravens Love.

They’re really trying to orchestrate it, too. For the big game of the year, the expected 71,000 fans will be given free purple rally towels upon entering the stadium and, 10 minutes before kick-off, they’re are asked to wave the towels from their seats to create an all-purple stadium, or, in other words, a “Purple Out”!

Some are resisting the idea of emulating Baltimore’s loathed rivals, the “terrible towel”-waving  Steelers, whose yellow rally rags many Ravens fans associate with heartbreaking or humiliating losses or the smug face of Hines Ward.

Alternate suggestions have ranged from the cheezy (purple thongs or other undergarments) to the personal and politically-pointed  (chanting “No, means no!” whenever quarterback Ben Rothlisberger is holding a football.)

Ravens fans are more likely to take the Ravens up on their other suggestion — that they wear purple to the game. ESPN goes so far as to suggest they dress up as Barney, a grape, or Darkwing Duck.

Ravens-Steelers game, Sun Dec. 5th at 8:20pm