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It's pretty well known how much I loathe 300 pound white dudes wearing a Daunte Culpepper or Donovan McNabb(they're still around, right?) jersey. Living vicariously through some teams exploits is rather childish and silly. I stopped wearing jerseys when I stopped playing after college. I still wear my letter man jacket on occasion, like I club meetings or the special events and I'll wear an Iowa ball cap whenever and wherever I want but I also stopped referring to the team as if I was still a part. My brother and I were honorary captains for the 2001 Michigan game and they gave us jerseys to commemorate the day, but I've never worn it and it's in a box somewhere. My brother's is framed and in his office.
Half the retards in Nebraska have never set foot in a college classroom, let alone attended a home game there, but you'll still find every bar, casino or residence stuffed with people wearing crimson and cream colored clothes and claiming "if only WE," or "We did.......whatever bullshit thing the team did." Nebraska fans at the stadium are great and treat opposing teams well but that's only because they have to wait 25 years for season tickets. They're too old to be as stupid as the fans who don't get tickets.
Philadelphia, Dallas, Oakland, Kansas City and Cleveland fans are pretty much the same. But worse. Any NFL fans, really. I've been a lifelong Bears fan, but I own ONE ball cap and a few shirts, but no jerseys. My brother got drafted by them in 1987 but they had Singletary, Wilson, Marshall and Rivera on the roster, so he played special teams for a year and quietly retired from football the next year. My point being, I never wore a jersey with my name on it because I didn't earn that right. He did. And he doesn't wear jerseys anymore, either.
Don't get me started on chicks wearing that stuff.
