Odd jersey choices

[spyboy1]

Has anyone ever seen the New York Yankees #00 jerseys with "COSTANZA" on them in public that you could buy at Foot Locker or some such chain? I thought those were pretty funny actually.

[VitaminD]

i have a Konowalchuk Caps jersey...obscure Caps captain, and my wife has an Avs Rene Corbet jersey. i dont wear the Konowalchuk jersey all that often, the name is way too damn long, but i loved that guy. had to retire due to heart problems last year.

Funny - that's the very reason that I'm getting Kono on my Caps old blue sweater. I usually try to get guys who aren't necessarily the biggest stars on the team, but rather someone who flies under the radar. Names that stretch from elbow to elbow is always a mitigating factor as well. I tr to have my jerseys and sweaters stand out a little from the herd, which is cool. No disrespect to Brian Dawkins or Donovan McNabb, but everyone and their mother wears #20, #5 (or #36) around here. I prefer being the only guy wearing Correll Buckhalter's #28 (which I snagged for $100 off retail 'cuz Reebok doesn't have one of us working on their QC, and they goofed in my favor). This preference for going oustide the mainstream nearly drove me to buy a Chris Boniol #18... thank God for thinking things through carefully, although I'd wear a #2 David Akers until it disintegrated.

[BlueSky]

If I cared about baseball anymore I might get this one made.

[sc49erfan15]

I have a late-90's Ronald McKinnon authentic Cardinals jersey. And yes, I got it customized that way...I always thought he was underrated. As well as an Andres Galarraga Braves authentic, also customized.

Oh yeah, and a blank WLAF NY/NJ Knights jersey that I'm going to get customized into something...and a Patriots "Flying Elvis" blank that I'm pretty sure is getting SAGAPOLUTELE 75. I have a thing for weird names.

[nybatt]

went to a yankee game and saw names on authentic jerseys (in the stands, naturally).

For a team that prides itself on its image it amazes me that these would even be an option. As I waded through the stands in my authentic 1938, #4, home white pinstripe jersey, I heard a kid behind me ask his dad why I didn't have a name on it and who it was. The father painfully answered that I probably didn't have enough money to get the name stiched on and couldn't come up with the only yankee to ever wear #4!!

Unfortunately idiot fans abound at all ballparks.

Before the yankee haters chime in, please understand that growing up a yankee fan retired number memorization is usually a rite of young passage.

Getting back to the point of the thread, I believe ANY name on a yankee jersey, authentic or replica, home or away, looks incredibly foolish.

[Tim Thomasen]

I once saw a guy at a pittsburgh penguins game have a #2 Jim Paek jersey and that guy only played like 5 games in a pens uniform

[NyghtOwl]

My oddest jersey--I have a Rangers replica from 1994 (bought in 1994) with Glenn Anderson on the back. Only twist is, it's no. 8 instead of 36. He was originally going to be assigned 8 but chose 36 because 3 + 6 = 9. As far as I know this might be the only Anderson 8 replica ever made. Wore it proudly for the 94 cup finals.

NyghtOwl

[gorams1]

i was at a Manitoba Moose game at the old Winnipeg arena about 3 years ago and there was a guy about 4 rows ahead of us with a Shawn Cronin jersey. I can't remember the exact number, but a few people were heckling him for it. "Hey, it's Cronin The Barbarian"!!!!". To which he replied, "shut the f*** up!!!"

There was nothing quite like seeing a game at the old barn.....

[buckeyes]

i wanna buy a gilbert arenas jersey with either "HIBACHI" or "AGENT". i those would bothlook sweet. if mikey gansey ever makes it to the nba i will be buying his jersey

[FiddySicks]

I went to the Giants A's game today and saw some really odd jersey choices. Ones that annoyed me to no end were authentic Bonds home jerseys with the 2007 ASG patch and all, but they had BONDS on the back of the jersey. I also saw a guy in an A's authentic #1 jersey that read LETS GO A'S

[getyourdad]

At a MetroStars (now New York Red Bulls) game a few years ago at Giants Stadium, I saw a spectator wearing a MetroStars' jersey with the number 69 and the name BANGIN' (yes, with the apostrophe).

[Coast2CoastAM2006]

went to a yankee game and saw names on authentic jerseys (in the stands, naturally).

For a team that prides itself on its image it amazes me that these would even be an option. As I waded through the stands in my authentic 1938, #4, home white pinstripe jersey, I heard a kid behind me ask his dad why I didn't have a name on it and who it was. The father painfully answered that I probably didn't have enough money to get the name stiched on and couldn't come up with the only yankee to ever wear #4!!

Unfortunately idiot fans abound at all ballparks.

Before the yankee haters chime in, please understand that growing up a yankee fan retired number memorization is usually a rite of young passage.

Getting back to the point of the thread, I believe ANY name on a yankee jersey, authentic or replica, home or away, looks incredibly foolish.

growing up in a house of Yanks fans, i still to this day can't remember any of the retired numbers of the Yanks. My dad with a cigar in his mouth would always try to get me to memorize all the yankee greats. He kept telling me I was a bum for not caring about the yankees, yankee greats or baseball in general. I got so pissed off about all the yankee wanking going on that i bought a red sox jersey, and brought it home and my dad yanked the jersey right off of me, started the fire place and burned my jersey i bought. He called me a bum and told me to get the out of the house and not to come home until i respected the yankees and watched baseball.

[KP14]

How about anyone who is still capable of showing up at a Flyers game wearing a Lindros jersey. How can you do that?

I'll echo the sentiments of having your own name on the back of a jersey, that is probably the worst possible thing to do. Making up stuff is only slightly above that. I also think it's a bit shameful to have a modern jersey with an old player's name on it. Like buying a brand new Red Sox jersey and putting WILLIAMS on the back, or a Canadiens jersey with PLANTE on it.

The strangest I've actually seen was a guy with Zhitnik Kings away jersey, that always stuck in my head as weird. But, he deserves some credit for not just dishing out for a Gretzky jersey at the time. (Mid-90's in California) Which brings me to the worst one I've ever seen and that was someone with a Kings home jersey with the number 99 and instead of Gretzky it said "The Great One"...honestly, you paid $250 for that? I hope the guy was Wayne's agent...

[VitaminD]

How about anyone who is still capable of showing up at a Flyers game wearing a Lindros jersey. How can you do that?

Easy - all Philadelphia sports fans are masochists, and enjoy inviting scorn to be heaped upon them. And if you're interested, you can have my old Lindros for $10 - it's been preserved nicely in my closet...

My other weird jersey choice was a Rockets Matt Maloney #12 jersey. It was the set with the hideous thick pinstripes and the cartoon rocket, which makes it the ugliest item of clothing I have, hands down. I grew up literally around the corner from Maloney, and we went to the same high school (he was the reason I couldn't wear #12 for hoops like I did in football and baseball, so I wound up with 1 + 2 = 3). One night I was going back to our Spring Break hotel after a night of drinking and stumbled past an all-night store that sold, among other things, NBA replicas. For $15, I scored my Maloney jersey. I bust it out every now and again for a pickup game. Good times.

[KP14]

How about anyone who is still capable of showing up at a Flyers game wearing a Lindros jersey. How can you do that?

Easy - all Philadelphia sports fans are masochists, and enjoy inviting scorn to be heaped upon them. And if you're interested, you can have my old Lindros for $10 - it's been preserved nicely in my closet...

You've definetely proven that with the second sentence there. Throw in a TO jersey and you've got a deal.

[VitaminD]

Can't get you a TO, but how's about a Mike Mamula? I could rip up a Jason Avant and retrofit it to a TO if you're just dying to be picked on...

[Sport]

On a kind of related note, today I talked to my Friend Beer (that's his actual last name, we aren't that lame to nickname someone beer) who moved here from Vancouver about 4 years ago. I was reminded on the phone that he has a dog named, wait for it, Bertuzzi.

Haha Woops.

[Don]

i have a Konowalchuk Caps jersey...obscure Caps captain, and my wife has an Avs Rene Corbet jersey. i dont wear the Konowalchuk jersey all that often, the name is way too damn long, but i loved that guy. had to retire due to heart problems last year.

I remember him from his Avs playing days. Sad that he was forced into retirement like that.

he was a Cap for much longer than he was an Av, part of one of our greatest checking lines of all time with Halpern and Ulf Dahlen. it was very sad that he had to retire, he was a very classy guy and a hard worker. one of my favs definetly.

[ElwoodCuse]

If I cared about baseball anymore I might get this one made.

I saw a while back where someone managed to get an ASTERISK 73 jersey made by the MLB.com people. Someone was asleep at the switch for that one.

[Mingjai]

This isn't a weird choice on the part of the buyer, but has anyone ever noticed when Nike or Adidas pick the wrong player number when they make their annual college football/basketball replicas? I know sometimes choosing a star or two from a team can be a crapshoot, but how much research do they really do?

For example, back in 2001, Nike made BYU replica jersey of in the number of the guy who ended up being the third string QB. Then, in 2002, they picked the number of the guy that was going to start, but the guy changed numbers in the offseason. In 2004, they made replicas of an all-conference safety (Aaron Francisco #33), and instead of coming up with an offensive player, they made a #00 (the mascot's number!). At least they were right on this year making the BYU replicas in #12 for John Beck and #35 for Cameron Jensen, the defensive captain.

Sometimes I wonder if the do much research when the pick the numbers of the NCAA jerseys or if they directly ask the equipment manager for an inside scoop. Anyone know?