Discrim Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 heh, I recall back in 97-98, my school's freshman girls team had one player who wore a sleeved jersey, while the rest wore tanks. To this day I have absolutely no idea why, seeing as that girl stuck out like a sore thumb.I'd say either it was religious reasons or some people have large birthmarks on their arms that they are self conscious about.possibly, but then a t-shirt under her jersey would've sufficed, methinks. A strong mind gets high off success, a weak mind gets high off bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1991 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 missouri high school girls basketball power marshfield lady jays (went 132-0 in late 80'sto early 90's) still wear sleeved jerseys as tradition , and they said the actually enjoy wearing them for one reason they feel conected to past lady jays teams. if they ever went sleeveless, i think the whole community would go balisitic and throw the coach out of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogbarks55 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 If you want to wear sleeves when you're playing basketball, fine. Wear a t-shirt under your jersey. Don't wear some damn shooting shirt and call it a jersey, because it's not.Something has always bugged me about players wearing T-shirts under their basketball jerseys. I think it looks sloppy. Like a pick-up game in the playground. And since I've been watching basketball for around 50 years the first player I ever remember wearing a T-shirt was Patrick Ewing when he played at Georgetown. He said it kept him warmer when they played on courts that were placed over hockey rinks. This may have brrn true. But amazingly after Ewing graduated to the NBA where all games are played over hockey rinks the T-shirt magically disappeared. Voila! The NBA strictly enforces their no T-shirt rule and Patrick amazingly never got cold again during his long NBA career (Maybe with all those millions $$ he could afford lots of Nyquil. Hah!). And noone has ever challenged the NBA rule that I am aware of. But the long-lasting legacy of Patrick Ewing's Georgetown T-shirt is that thousands of high school and college basketball players of both genders have chosen to disgrace their school's uniform by wearing a sloppy, ill-fitting T-shirt. Kids that do this look sloppy. Most can't give a good reason for doing so. It's about time the NFHS and NCAA put their collective feet down and say "No more T-shirts under the basketball uniform!" They make and enforce enough silly rules. Why not this one. As far as Evansville's T-shirt uniforms I say at least they were consistant and did it correctly. In the 1950s T-shirt uniforms were accepted. Even the first Boston Celtics team in 1946-47 wore T-shirt uniforms. Thank you, Patrick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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