Wearing jersey's to games?

[Tony G]

When is it time to stop wearing your favorite team's jersey to their game? I love baseball, and I regularly attend my favorite team's games. I've been wearing a jersey to those games for as long as I can remember. I prefer the look of my favorite team's road jersey, and I have one with a blank back, no name and number. But I'm thinking, I'm 28...am I starting to get too old to wear this jersey to the game? I got my 10 month old son a matching jersey, and somebody commented to me that eventually he wasn't going to like the fact that we would wear matching outfits to games. Kid's wearing jerseys is perfectly acceptable I think, but when is it time that I stop wearing one as well? I don't honestly really want to stop, but if it is making me look like a fool/loser/wannabe/etc., somebody please just tell me!

[Nino Valenti]

The loser making the comment was jealous that your son owned his son!!!!

Wear the jersey!!!!

[Jerose]

You're never to old to wear jerseys to games! That's what the sell them for!

Support the team!

[MakiSupaStar]

There's a man law about this.

Originally Posted by The Man Laws

Man Law 16: No man shall wear a outfit that is 'co-ordinated' with
his woman's clothes.
Man Law 16a This restriction be applied to ALL things, (bicycles, skis, bowling balls, etc.)
Man Law 16b This includes children

[Tony G]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

There's a man law about this.

So the fact that at a baseball game that my son and I are wearing the same jersey and hat is a problem? Even though there are about 20000 other people dressed the same way? I'm not saying we dress like this on any random day, but when I attend my favorite team's game I wear their jersey, and my son does as well.

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by Tony G

So the fact that at a baseball game that my son and I are wearing the same jersey and hat is a problem? Even though there are about 20000 other people dressed the same way? I'm not saying we dress like this on any random day, but when I attend my favorite team's game I wear their jersey, and my son does as well.

I do see your point. I think there needs to be an addendum to the man laws for instances like this. Go ahead and submit it in the man law thread for posterity. I'd second it.

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Wear the jersey.

I wear my #11 Kevin Dineen Hartford Whalers home jersey to every hockey game I go to, as well as some other events. I always get positive comments.

[Jerose]

Originally Posted by Bob Lee (QSC)

Wear the jersey.

I wear my #11 Kevin Dineen Hartford Whalers home jersey to every hockey game I go to, as well as some other events. I always get positive comments.

Mmm Kevin Dineen! Now rockin' the head coaching spot of the Portland Pirates. Farmin' them rooks!

[crayzee]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

I do see your point. I think there needs to be an addendum to the man laws for instances like this. Go ahead and submit it in the man law thread for posterity. I'd second it.

Agreed as well. It's ok for a father and son to wear matching jerseys.

I still wear my Leafs jersey when I'm lucky enough to snag a ticket once every couple of years.

[jkritchey]

If you're supporting the team, you wear the colors. If you're wearing a jersey from a different team to any game where said jersey isn't playing, your a poseur.

I'm pushing 50, I own 15 or so jerseys, but only 1 goes to the game. DC United.

[peabody]

I wouldn't be caught dead at a Brewer's game without my Gorman Thomas throwback jersey (#28). Stormin' Gorman is a must....

It sometimes follows me to the stage....

[TallLankyBastyd]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

I do see your point. I think there needs to be an addendum to the man laws for instances like this. Go ahead and submit it in the man law thread for posterity. I'd second it.

This will need to be worded VERY specifically to avoid future slippery slope prat-falls such as...

...Can a father and daughter share the same sort of experience by wearing matching Hot Pink jerseys while supporting mom's "Pinky Tuskedaroes" womens softball team?!?

We may need Burt Reynolds hisself to help us with this one.

[sarcastro83]

So some dude made a comment about how your child might find the idea of wearing matching jerseys to a sporting event to be a fashion faux-pas?

This is what happens when tickets start getting more expensive, people. You get dinks like these who get the tickets through their boss, because "they need something to do that night."

Rock your jerseys with pride, dude.

[fo shizzle]

As the boy gets older either father or son should get a alternate jersey. Home vs road. Maybe the 3rd jersey. Perhaps the BP jersey. That will take care of the "dressing like twins issue.

As you were.....

[Tony G]

Originally Posted by fo shizzle

As the boy gets older either father or son should get a alternate jersey. Home vs road. Maybe the 3rd jersey. Perhaps the BP jersey. That will take care of the "dressing like twins issue.

As you were.....

Yeah, I was thinking at the very least that this is what it would come down to.

[AndrewSixx07032]

It's all good in my book. My dad(along with my uncle and aunt) used to wear his Devils jersey and I'd wear mine when we went to hockey games. I say wear matching jerseys until he's thinks it's stupid to wear a matching jersey and order yourself a customized one with your name, lucky number, captain's patch, whatever you can on to it.

[Tony G]

Originally Posted by AndrewSixx07032

It's all good in my book. My dad(along with my uncle and aunt) used to wear his Devils jersey and I'd wear mine when we went to hockey games. I say wear matching jerseys until he's thinks it's stupid to wear a matching jersey and order yourself a customized one with your name, lucky number, captain's patch, whatever you can on to it.

I was with you on this until your suggestion of what to change to. I can't say I'm a fan of a jersey with anytning but an actual player's number and/or name (past or present), or simply blank. The custom stuff doesn't do it for me. It comes off a little weird to me, but that is just my opinion.

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by crayzee

Agreed as well. It's ok for a father and son to wear matching jerseys.

I still wear my Leafs jersey when I'm lucky enough to snag a ticket once every couple of years.

Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd

This will need to be worded VERY specifically to avoid future slippery slope prat-falls such as...

...Can a father and daughter share the same sort of experience by wearing matching Hot Pink jerseys while supporting mom's "Pinky Tuskedaroes" womens softball team?!?

We may need Burt Reynolds hisself to help us with this one.

Done. Check the thread.

Man Laws II

[TheXym]

Mad props to the vintage Kevin Dineen Whale jersey. I'll give huge respect to longtime fans.

My daughter has a white Red Wings jersey with Brett Hull #17 on it. I have a white Konstantinov 16 and a red Fedorov 91 that I routinely wear. She wants the black practice jersey with Zetterberg on it just so its a different color while my Zetterberg jersey is going to be the Winter Classic design. Supporting the team is what they're for.

But defintely blank or actual team member past or present. Putting your own name on is, imho, rather pretentious and lame. One exception I thought was kind of cool - in the mid 90's my cousin knew a guy who had a Wings jersey that said Russian 5 on the back, and he had Konstantinov, Larionov, Fetisov, Kozlov, and Fedorov all autograph it (the actual "Russian 5" from the Wings roster in the mid/late 90's)

[steamthief]

I'm digging that Brewers throwback! I'd like to get an early 60's sleeveless Roberto Clemente, myself.