Hey, it's not just men, sometime those outfits can cover alot of...girth.
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Hey, it's not just men, sometime those outfits can cover alot of...girth.
NFL? Oh that’s different. I thought they meant my Doug Flutie #22 jersey.
Why do grown men walk around in flip flops, shorts, t-shirts, keds, bizarre facial hair, piercings, tattooes, and fat guts?
Like Mark Steyn said, Adults today look just like they did in 1950, only fatter and dressed exactly like children.
I never understood why grown men would walk around wearing a jersey with another man’s name on it. Seems kind of childish to me.
gotta think...most of the people/ walking around today are the offspring of the people? of the ‘60s and l8r...and we wonder what happened...
Semper Remembering!
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The joke's on me, though, since he doesn't wear a shirt when he competes...
Sigh... now it looks just as old and nasty as I do.
Jersies are comfortable. But I don’t get the full-on NBA outfit.
I have a jersey too! It is from my son’s high school and had the number he wore through middle school and high school. Now that he’s in college, he has a different number and colors, but I don’t think MIT sells jerseys, so I can’t update mine ... but I do have an MIT Mom t-shirt.
However, our younger son plays pop warner, and this year requested his brother’s old number, and our pop warner team has the same colors as our high school team, so I’m still okay. Just wish I could buy an MIT jersey too!
Outsourcing masculinity. The overweight out of shape poor unheralded loser feels like a winning worshipped wealthy athlete if he wears the jersey of HIS team. Their victory was dependent on him and he shares in it donchaknow?
Times have changed dramatically since I was in high school back in the early 60s.
First of all, lettering was an honor. Not everyone on the team lettered. You had to play in a certain number of quarters or innings or score a certain number of points. I did a bit of teaching after I retired and was surprised to learn that even band members now get letter jackets.
We all kept our practice jerseys but the school didn’t give us the game jerseys. I don’t recall anyone selling fake jerseys or letter jackets back then.
I can no longer get into my College letter jacket and I have no idea what happened to my high school stuff. I once took my letter jacket to a sporting goods store and asked if they could duplicate it in a larger size. They had no interest in doing so.
My grandchildren have all my old college gear. I will say those Wilson letter jackets were well made. They are still in good shape after more than 40 years.
Go to Europe and they’re all walking around wearing hideously loud soccer jerseys bearing adverts for software companies and Muslim airlines.
So what’s your point?
The funniest thing is when the jock whose name is on the jersey you wear moves to the team you suppose to hate as a fan of his old team, and do hate it, and it happens right after you shelled out, what, $45 for the jersey.
I don’t own an NFL jersey (or any other league jersey, for that matter), but I am still known to wear Iron Maiden t-shirts. :)
I’ll only wear a jersey with the name of my Lichtenstein bank.
I see no problem with someone wearing a jersey of his/her favorite team...or with a players name on the back.
I love sports, and love my teams and college. I am perfectly normal. In fact....those criticizing...I wonder if there is something wrong with THEM....
I have college jerseys of some of my Univ of Central Florida alums (UCF), Kevin Smith and Daunte Culpepper. Most college jerseys sold in stores, except for the throwbacks, do no have the players names on them. Oh, and, beat Ohio State this week!
I also have a Univ of Nebraska football jersey, and, a Bobby Joe Hill 1966 Texas Western basketball jersey...the last is my favorite
I also own two T-Shirt/Jersey’s...jersey mock-up with players name on back....one of Tampa Bay Rays Evan Longoria (#3) and one of Tampa Bay Lightning’s Martin St Louis (#26). Those two get the most comments.....the Longoria one I always hear “Tony Parker dumped her a—”, and the St Louis one “go Cards” or “Saint Lewis” (its pronounced San Lou-eee)
Well, I would never do it. I will admit to wearing a Mariners ballcap on occasion but at least that’s not a professional team.
I don’t dare wear a NFL jersey. There are already enough people around the Bay Area that think I’m Wayne Walker that I could get into trouble.
Stevenson Electronics in Walnut Creek once charged a VCR that I bought to Wayne’s account.