Adults wearing team jerseys

I Only Smoke 4 the Cards · #1 03-15-2014, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Runscott

I remember when Michael Irvin was hired as a t.v. sports commentator. Irvin would never have been allowed on a Tom Landry team, but was typical of the guys that the Jerry Jones era (error) brought in to change the 'squeaky clean' image that the Cowboys had had for over 25 years. I was disgusted with Irvin, and stunned to see him on television as an announcer, but as you point out - it's all about ratings. A coke-head as a role-model for our kids?

Athletes are not role models. They are paid to play a game, not to be good people.

packs · #2 03-18-2014, 09:58 AM

I agree. An athlete might be a better athlete than you are but that doesn't make them a better person.

Runscott · #3 03-18-2014, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

Athletes are not role models. They are paid to play a game, not to be good people.

Sport is an integral part of our society. Introducing team sports to our youth is important for their development as human beings. Children watch adults and use them as role models. Lots of people get paid to do things, but that does not relieve them of their other responsibilities in life. Professional athletes ARE role models. Michel Irvin wasn't a good one. Giving bad role models jobs as public figures, in my opinion is a really bad idea.

edjs · #4 03-18-2014, 01:50 PM

So, back to the original subject, I love wearing my jerseys to games or sporting events, or even watching the game at home. I don't wear current players, but I have Red Wings Ted Lindsey and Darren McCarty jerseys. For the Packers, I have a Boyd Dowler jersey. My favorite jersey to wear is a San Diego Gulls jersey, people don't know what to think of it. I never really thought about it, but I guess somewhere I sub-consciously choose retired players as a tribute to the teams history. I have never been interested in buying a current player, I think part of that is that they may be traded, then I have a jersey for a player on a rival team. Anyway, I am a superstitious hockey freak, and when I got my first Red Wings jersey, they won the Cup, so now I feel like I have to wear one, or I might just bring down some bad juju on the team. Lol.

HRBAKER · #5 03-18-2014, 06:50 PM

No issue here, however, when an adult man couples wearing the jersey with a cap turned around backward, well, I have to draw the line somewhere.

Runscott · #6 03-19-2014, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by HRBAKER

No issue here, however, when an adult man couples wearing the jersey with a cap turned around backward, well, I have to draw the line somewhere.

I draw it at the vertical line below the waist. If this shows, regardless of what you are wearing, you have to be ejected from whatever venue you are in, unless it is under my sink. Exception made for some females.

drcy · #7 03-19-2014, 12:43 PM

Agreed. Jersey is acceptable, but no backward baseball cap with jersey, and no calling people 'dude' or 'bro.'

Middle aged man with untucked oversized football jersey and backward baseball cap says "I am very annoying and own the complete Jim Belushi movie collection on DVD."

DaClyde · #8 03-19-2014, 05:20 PM

I have oddly complicated feelings about how jerseys should be worn, but don't have any particular objections to them actually being worn in general. I like to see accurate jerseys, and get annoyed (and yes, it's completely my hangup) seeing a Yankees jersey with a name on the back. My wife bought me a Yankees home jersey with the right number on it (31, I'm a big Dave Winfield, Hensley Meulens and Ichiro fan), but it has Winfield's name on the back. I don't think she had it customized that way, I think she just found a good deal on it, so she got it. When I saw it, she even guessed my reaction as being mixed, and exactly why it was mixed. I'll be taking a seam ripper to those letters sometime in the near future.

I also don't like seeing jerseys customized for players, but in the wrong historical context. I can't stand seeing a mid-1990s Padres orange/blue pinstripe jersey with Winfield, Fingers or Smith on the back because the players never wore that particular version of the Padres jersey.

However, I have no problem with a hugely customized jersey with all kinds of crap stitched on to it (like lots of Japanese fans do with the jerseys they wear to games). If you're not going to be faithful to a particular jersey/player combination, then customize the crap out of it.

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