Adults wearing team jerseys

[Runscott]

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]

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]

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.

[Runscott]

I have an Astros home jersey with Roger Clemens' name/number, and an Astros away jersey with Andy Pettitte. They are of course, the old style, and I wear them to Astros games against the Mariners. Seems kind of cool, but it could make me look like a tool - I have no idea.

Of course, there are also guys like me who are fashion disasters even when wearing 'normal' clothing, so jerseys are just another accident in a long chain.

[drcy]

It's perfectly fine to wear whatever sports attire to a game. That's an entirely different occasion than walking on the street or going to church. Its standard if not expected for fans to wear their 'team colors' at the game. A Monday through Friday suit-and-tie accountant, and perhaps even your reverend, will wear a team jersey to a game.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by drcy

A Monday through Friday suit-and-tie accountant, and perhaps even your reverend, will wear a team jersey to a game.

I lived in SF during the 49ers glory days and there were "Forty-F***ing Niners" shirts everywhere.