Posted on 09/05/2012 1:33:25 PM PDT by mojito
....I have a jersey I wear when my team plays on Sundays. It's not a good jersey. It's a lame-ass replica jersey I bought because I was too cheap to spring for the real deal. But I wear it. And do I feel like a stallion when I wear it? I DO. I totally do, even though I look like every other middle-aged man wearing an NFL jersey he shouldn't be wearing. I feel like I'm part of the team, which is just absurd.
NFL fans walk around in team jerseys all the time, and even though most of them look like schlubs, most of them FEEL better than they do at any other time of the week. In fact, the fatter and more out of shape you are, the more powerful a spell the jersey casts over your ego. Maybe you look like a real player. Maybe the head coach will be in dire need of a running back in the fourth quarter, see you through the TV screen, and summon you out to the field to go rip off the winning 90-yard swing pass. That will never happen, but the jersey is what lets you dream about it, and often the dream is vivid enough to make a decent substitute for reality. Which is good, because in reality you're fat and your team sucks.
So if you have a jersey sitting in your drawer, I beseech you to take it out right now and throw it on. Don't apologize for it. Don't worry about your girlfriend telling you that you look pathetic. She doesn't get it, man. She doesn't understand the POWER of the jersey. But you do. You put that jersey on and you get yourself fired the f**k up, because the NFL season starts TONIGHT....
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Commando?
It does sound appealing now that you mention it.
Jersies are comfortable. But I don’t get the full-on NBA outfit.
Commando is dangerous with khaki shorts and 90+ degree temps.
I tried...it’s too big.
My all time favorite, period, end of story, no debate whatsoever. The single greatest cinematic achievement in all the entire history of film. “I’m your huckleberry. That’s just my game.”
I see yinz are Stiller fans n’at....
;-)
A Good read. I used to wear my Jersey after I stopped playing but then the wife decided it was hot to wear it as a night gown - it was but I never wore it again!
Mel
She beat anorexia!
It seems we’re on the same page.
She’s a tough one, but I bet you’re bigger than 5’8” 147lbs.
No Betamax?!?
Yeah, I’m just kidding. I am in the market for a Julie Foucher pinup, so if you see anything...
bttt
No, but my brother does.
I’ll keep an eye out.
:)
and posting 10's of thousands of messages on a forum makes one look like a loser with no life. We all have our oddities and things that entertain us...
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