What number would you wear?

[KJHillis]

We all have thought about what number we would be if we did this or that, so share what number you would wear if you were a college or pro athlete and why

For me, 9 has always been my favorite number and I would probably wear that if it was still available. Tons of great athletes have worn this number or a form of it(Gretzky, Hull, Ted Williams, Gordie Howe, Rocket Richard)

I have also I always wanted to wear 0 if I played basketball

[oddball]

We all have thought about what number we would be if we did this or that so share what number you would wear if you were a college or pro athlete and why

For me, 9 has always been my favorite number and I would probably wear that if it was still available. Tons of great athletes have worn this number or a form of it(Gretzky, Hull, Ted Williams, Gordie Howe, Rocket Richard)

I have also I always wanted to wear 0 if I played basketball

13 - Because a lot of people won't wear it.

14 - Because my favorite player growing up wore it. Mike Scioscia

22,33, 77 - Because they are just cool numbers.

43 - Because it's the Richard Petty's number.

89 - The year I graduated high school.

[BrandMooreArt]

ive played sports my whole life. soccer, baseball, basketball, football. always wore a different number, but i raced go-karts for 9 years, seemed to be my true calling, and always ran #18. my uncle races dirt cars and has ran 18 for about 30 years. so 18 is my number. i like to use it on a lot of my uniform concepts as well

[GFB]

9 is my number as well. I chose it for purely aesthetic reasons when I was 11. I thought it was the coolest looking number.

22 or 5 is my back up number in soccer, because that's what Benny Feilhaber wears.

[Billy B]

For football, the only sport I played in high school, it was 55. I played center, so there was 50-79 to choose from. I wanted 53 freshman year, but it wasn't available so I took 55. Then I decided I wanted to keep the same number for four years.

[bigcoyotes]

I was a lineman most of my life so I have worn numbers in the 50's 60's and 70's but I did get to wear a 80's number once.

If I played football it would be 58 because it was the last number I ever wore.

If I played basketball it would be 82 because I wore it for the only year I played a skill position (I played Tight End) and it would be cool to see on a basketball court.

If I played baseball it would be 63. I wore that number for one year (in football) and I played very well.

If I played hockey it would be 90 for the year I was born.

[Quillz]

I'd also wear #9. If not available, then #99. And if that isn't available, I'd wear any number that can be evenly divided by 3... #3, #6, #15, etc.

[illwauk]

Here's the numbers I did wear:

5 (youth league soccer, city league basketball)

23 (first year of club football)

33 (babe ruth league & high school basketball)

85 (high school football, second year of club football)

[cmm]

When I played Little League I had a choice of #3 or #4 since those were the only size smalls and I was the smallest guy on the team. I chose 4 because of Lenny Dykstra. If I had a choice of any number now, I'd pull a Benito Santiago and stick a 0 in front of a single-digit number. I'll go with #04 and say the 4 is in honor of Ralph Kiner.

[GO2HELL]

#10 because my favorite player was pavel bure

#88 because my seconed favorite player was eric lindros.

#7 because of phil esposito

#77 cause it's a cool number.

[TwoRsAndTwoLs]

#16 because I had a really good year in pee-wee baseball with that number, playing 2B. I was really good when I was, y'know, eight.

#41 because this was the number I was given my senior year in high school for baseball. Seniors usually got to pick, but they threw the number at me. I wasn't good and did not play much at all. In fact, the coach couldn't be bothered to spell my name right... until I showed up at practice with my name stitched on the back of a t-shirt with my number 41 on it. He didn't get it wrong after that. Because of the crap I endured on that team, 41 reminds me of my ability to persevere.

Also, I wore that t-shirt all the time when I played intramural sports in college, so it became my number out of habit.

[Still MIGHTY]

In high school football, I wore 52 my freshman year because that's what they gave me. My sophomore year I chose 68 for my JV number because of the ones available to me I liked that one the best for whatever reason, but the coaches gave me 70 for varsity because 68 was taken. My junior year I stayed with 70 on varsity because I already had my letterman jacket made and I converted my JV number to 70 also. And my senior year was 70 on varsity.

In lacrosse, I first chose 25 because I originally wanted 35 to match my favorite hockey goalie JS Giguere (I was a goalie in lacrosse too), but our numbers only went up to 25 (we started as a small funded club team) and I would've taken 9 for my favorite number/birthday, 8 for Teemu Selanne, 15 for Tim Salmon, 16 for Garrett Anderson, or 18 for Peyton Manning, but I came to practice late and I had a small selection. My second choice would have been 1 for another traditional hockey goalie number, but our coach didn't want anyone to have 1 because he didn't want anyone to think that they were better than everyone else because of a number or being #1.

But we changed coaches, finally became a school-sponsored sport and ordered new jerseys, so I took #1 and the jersey was specially made for me. And now basically all goalies we have from now on will have #1 unless they are tiny. A nice tradition that I actually started. (My backup always wanted my number because it looked great on our jerseys. So I basically passed down my jersey and told him to pass it to the next backup which he did. Very cool.)

[Alphabet Man]

I never really cared what number I wore.

Across basketball, football (AFL) and soccer i've worn... 4, 7, 9, 15, 12, 21, 24, 25, 36, 43, 44, 46, 50, 52, 55 and I think thats it. I didn't pick any of those numbers....

[dougaldo]

#14 I was named after Maestro Cruyjff, my birthday is Sep 14th, at 14:00, in Paris 14th too... I wore 14 all my basketball playing days, and jinx #13 only once for my retirement game : 14 was still at laundry and I suffered a carreer ending knee injury.

I still cherish this number through players like TH14.

[wildwing64]

#26 would be my first choice, for my birthday, April 26th. I always use this for my created player in NHL videogames, and even got myself a personalised Ducks jersey with this number on (so it's essentially a fantasy videogame jersey). During a brief stint with my university's American Football team, the Anglia Ruskin Phantoms, I was a fullback and this number was available for me to use.

#8 would be my next choice, for Teemu Selanne. Also, in regards to #26, 2 + 6 = 8.

#20, for Steve Rucchin.

#64, for my favourite ever videogame console, the Nintendo 64 (which is also where the number in my username is derived from).

And finally, #4, both because of my month of birth, and because I like the number for some reason.

[Discogod]

My first year of high school basketball, I wore #6. Second season we got new unis, and I switched to #10, mainly because Tim Hardaway wore that number (he was one of my favourite players at the time). For my 3rd season onwards I wore #12, as that was 2 times 6 (the lowest number was #8, and they went up by size).

When I went on to play at university, and later semi-pro, I went back to #6, which I kept until I stopped playing about 4 years ago. I wore #6 because it was Dr. J's number in the NBA, and he was possibly my favourite player ever.

[rainmaker17]

#17

I had a t-shirt as kid with 17 on it and thought the number looked cool. I wore it in soccer, hockey and baseball. When I played football you couldn't get a custom number so I was 14 one year, 31 the next and 40 my senior year. I learned later in life my late father always wore the number 15 in every sport he played, which I thought was pretty cool. Maybe if I have a son one day he'll like #19....just to keep up the "tradition." Cool topic.

[IceCap]

I've always worn 79. No reason other then that I like the way it looks.

[tBBP]

23...the day of the month I was born on. That's what I'd choose currently, if I played a sport.

Though back in my high school footballer days I chose 39, for no other reason than hardly anyone ever wore that number.

[ColeJ]

i always liked #2.

not sure if derian hatcher became my favorite player as a kid because he wore #2, or if i liked #2 because derian hatcher wore it... but 2 has always been my number.