and the adults don't know what sizes are right and whether or not some kids can get the numbers they chose and whatnot because the sizes are wrong

and it's all idiocy...these are 11-12 year old kids, not five year old t-ball players who aren't playing competitively

and it occurs to me that all such competitive teams should be numbered alphabetically from 2-19 with goalies being 1 and 20 (at least in the case of hockey) so that there'll be no bickering

9/13/2008 5:44:45 PM

#11 for life.

9/13/2008 5:51:11 PM

i wore 11 in soccer until my last year when i made the switch to 13

no idea why

9/13/2008 5:55:37 PM

CLINT MATHIS!?

9/13/2008 5:57:40 PM

I used to get the number to match my age until I was 11 then Ive kept 11 for any sport ive played with a number since then, even my intramurals now haha.

9/13/2008 6:01:23 PM

I was #15 in soccer and in basketball. Of course, everyone wanted 23 back in those days . . .

1987 Cary Rec Pee-wee league champion Colonels representin!

9/13/2008 6:13:52 PM

i wore 00 in hockey in hs.

it was pretty sweet.

9/13/2008 6:26:42 PM

lol, who fucked up the order?

9/13/2008 6:36:44 PM

Starters get the first pick and benchwarmers get what is left over.

9/13/2008 7:49:22 PM

I was sideways eight (infinity) in intramurals.

There was also a Pi on my team, and a fraction.

9/13/2008 7:54:17 PM

hopefully not a divide by zero fraction

9/13/2008 8:49:03 PM

the soccer program at my HS was so worthless, we had 2 styles of uniforms. We had some repeat numbers and you couldn't play legally with that. So we had to add tape to change 1's into 4's.

9/13/2008 9:08:08 PM

I never kept the same number for more than one year. Kinda reflective of how helter-skelter my life is.

In youth basketball, I was 32, then 25, then 5, then 43. In AAU I took 35, then when we got new jerseys, I switched to 40. In high school, I wore 52 for JV and 30 for varsity, then 42 JV/12 varsity, then 45 varsity, then 33 varsity. On the NROTC rec team I wore 1.

In football I wore 18 and in baseball I wore 20. Played both for one season.

I had to look up a lot of old pictures to recall all that

[Edited on September 13, 2008 at 9:30 PM. Reason : m,]

9/13/2008 9:29:26 PM