Fashion is hard. I get it. But a basic fact of fashion is that you never want to get caught in public wearing the same outfit as someone else. Athletes have a much easier time with this than us regular folk. We have to text or ask, “Hey, what are you wearing?”.
Athletes just go to a locker and all of their clothes, while similar, are numbered. As a bonus, no two players in any sport, at any level, ever have the same number for one team at any particular time. It’s been this way since the Romans wrestled naked.
Look at this photo. Does this look like a team that does not have enough players to build a special teams unit without using offensive or defensive rotational players?
Does this look like a team that does not have enough coaches, assistants, advisors, gofers or personal wardrobe consultants?
It does not.
And yet it is.
That is a photo of the Noah’s Ark of college football teams.
There are two of each of these jersey numbers:
88
66
48
42
38
34
29
28
27
26
25
24
22
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
3
2
1
0
On Thursday night Noah’s Boys’ got caught with two players wearing the same jersey number on the field at the same time during a play. It cost them a possession.
I’m certain the Utah players were not too confused by what the duplicate players were supposed to do on the field. They were likely more confused by the idea that a team would travel 3,000 miles to be on national TV and also be so stupid and unprepared as to break the easiest rule to follow in all of sports.
You know what there may not be two of this season for Noah’s Boys?
Victories.
The Grover Picks 