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Most Shameful Player-Team Jersey Combo

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  1. Clutch

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    What is the player-team jersey combination you'd be most ashamed to wear?

    I was at a child's soccer game this morning and saw someone wearing this:

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    I just thought, "Damn I wouldn't be caught dead wearing that." I started to think about how many dollars have been spent the last few years buying that jersey too. Now this may be strange logic, but a Ricky Williams UT jersey or even a Saints jersey doesn't seem that bad ... but a Dolphins jersey, given recent events, just screams, "Look at me -- I'm a quitter!"

    I'd hate to wear any Pippen jersey, but a Rockets-Pippen jersey clearly has a much more negative connotation than a Bulls or Blazers one.

    Curious what you think the worst (or most shameful) player-team jersey combination, in any sport of any era, is.
     
  2. codell

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    A Derek Bell Astros jersey.

    I actually saw someone in public wearing one the other day.
     
  3. fadeaway

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    A Shoeless Joe Sox jersey would be pretty bad.

    Personally, I'd like to get my hands on a Steve Francis Grizzlies jersey (if one exists somewhere). :D
     
  4. RocketsPimp

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    OJ Simpson

    I don't think I've ever seen anyone wear one.

    Kobe Bryant has entered that realm I think.
     
  5. Dave2000

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    Its sad, I have a Ricky Williams jersey and a Kobe jersey. I bought the R. William jeresey in May before he quite and the Kobe jersey, because I have a reversable jersey of him and Garnett on the other side.

    Still proud of my Francis jersey and shamefully own a Eddie Griffin jersey. :(
     
  6. red

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    karla malone-jazz
    or
    karla malone-lakers
     
  7. Smokey

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    Rae Carruth - Carolina Panthers
     
  8. Lil Pun

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    Oh man, that one is BAD! :(
     
  9. fadeaway

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    I have a Big Country Bryant Reeves jersey that I should probably be ashamed of. ;)
     
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    Vernon Maxwell - Rockets.

    He was a favorite player until Clyde got here, and then he did himself in.

    Wear your Maxwell jersey now and you are informing the authorities you are trouble.


    Was there a Dennis Rodman Mavericks jersey?


    Of course, one can always make a statement with the Karl Malone - Lakers gear.
     
  11. SirCharlesFan

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    This really isn't all that shameful, but one time in Oklahoma I saw a kid wearing an Eddie Johnson Rockets jersey. :confused:
     
  12. m_cable

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    Doug Christie. Enough said.

    Oh and BTW, I think a Shoeless Joe jersey would be pretty awesome. He's taken on such a mytical quality and it seems like most people really genuinely think he should be in the HOF. Unlike Pete Rose, where the number seems to decline with every classless stunt that he pulls.
     
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    A Yinka Dare jersey would be pretty hilarious.
     
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    Why? :confused:
     
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    ask Bill Simmons.


    Seriously, I purchased an Allen Iverson jersey when the 76ers got to the NBA Finals. Ever since the infamous "practice" speech, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing that horrible piece of filth.
     
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    I'd wear one in honor of him, he passed away not too long ago.
     
  18. KingCheetah

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    If I was forced to wear a Rick Fox Laker jersey I would feel pretty smarmy.

    btw ~ I would love to own a Maxwell jersey.
     
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    A Mike Danton jersey would feel pretty strange.
     
  20. m_cable

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    Just read this article.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/sports/basketball/24CHRI.html

    Christies Keep Temptation on the Ropes
    By MIKE WISE


    SACRAMENTO, May 23 - In the final minute of an N.B.A. playoff game on Monday
    night, Doug Christie raised his left fist, extending his pinkie and index
    fingers toward the rafters of Arco Arena. Christie, a lanky swingman for the
    Sacramento Kings, appeared to be calling out a play for his teammates.


    But the message was actually intended for his wife, Jackie, seated in the
    stands. He often makes the same hand signal at least 50 times a game.

    "That's just to let my wife know I love her, and she and family are bigger
    than basketball," Christie said.

    Jackie Christie said she and her husband began communicating with each other
    during games a while ago. "When I make this sign, it means drive to the
    hole," she said. "When I make this sign, it means smile because you look a
    little sad on the bench. He started making this sign and said, `This means I
    love you,' and it developed from there. It makes me feel real special."

    Reporters who cover Christie's former team, the Toronto Raptors, were so
    intrigued by the couple's sign language that they created a betting pool
    when the Raptors played at Sacramento last November. By their count,
    Christie signaled his wife 62 times during the game.

    "Sixty-two," Jackie said, shaking her head in a pleased manner recently as
    she clutched her husband's hand on the couch in their home in suburban
    Sacramento. "That's beautiful."

    When the Kings flew to Los Angeles today for Game 3 of the Western
    Conference finals against the Lakers on Friday night, Jackie was seated next
    to Doug, as much a part of the postseason experience as any family member in
    the N.B.A.

    In the frenetic world of major professional sports, where athletes have
    trouble balancing their personal and public lives - and the perception of
    don't-ask, don't-tell marriages is sometimes a reality - the Christies have
    gone to great lengths to make sure their own vows are kept sacred.

    With few exceptions, Doug Christie does not look at other women, avoiding
    dialogue or even eye contact. "Every conversation I've ever had with a woman
    since we've been married besides my wife she knows about," he said. "She's
    been there. But what are we talking about? Banking? Mortgage? Other than
    that, I don't have anything to say to anybody. It's taking up my time and my
    time is limited to basketball and my family."


    The Christies, who have been married for eight years and have three
    children, get married on July 8 each year, their anniversary. It is not a
    mere renewal of their wedding vows, but an actual wedding - replete with
    friends, family, cake and a reception.

    This year, they will be married on the foundation of their new,
    not-yet-completed home in Bellevue, Wash. Christie's agent, Bradley
    Marshall, who is also a minister, has married them the past two years.

    "At first I thought this was a little bit much, but when you see the
    dividends it pays, you understand," Marshall said. "They invite other
    married couples to the wedding, and they're very encouraged by the whole
    process. It's very emotional."

    Jackie said she attends 25 to 30 of the Kings' 41 regular-season road games,
    riding on the team's charter.

    "I used to tell people I was married to an athlete and they would give me
    that look, `Oh, we know what he's doing,' " she said. "I don't try to
    explain anymore: `Yeah, but he's different. And I travel with him and he's
    not like the rest.' I just know Doug is faithful."

    When Christie played for the Raptors, his wife once confronted a female fan
    seeking an autograph and a kiss in Toronto. "A security guard grabbed her,
    but I put my hand up and told her to back off really loud," she said. "It
    scared me, because my voice sounded like a demon. It just came out. She was
    a pretty girl, very young. But she was touching someone she shouldn't have
    been."


    Some wives of professional athletes focus on the perks of life in the big
    time: affluence, public attention, premium seats at sold-out games. Jackie
    Christie sees a different reality, one in which her husband and other
    players are battling the seduction of women who wait after games and prowl
    hotel lobbies.

    "You see so much of that going on, you think, `Is that going to happen to
    me?' " she said. "I'm fine now. I gave up trying to change things. People
    are going to be the way they're going to be. Now, my attitude is, whatever
    we have to do to keep our circle tight. Just respect what we have and our
    commitment."

    Sustaining relationships can be difficult for N.B.A. players, said Charles
    Smith, a former player who was a union vice president. "Nine times out of
    10, when a player gets married early in his career, he's still growing and
    his spouse is still growing," Smith said. "Then you have kids, and it's a
    very difficult juggling act. If you don't have a firm foundation to fall
    back on, it doesn't work."

    Rick Fox, the Lakers' forward, and his wife of three years, the actress and
    singer Vanessa Williams, sometimes put up with a bicoastal relationship.
    Williams is starring on Broadway in "Into the Woods."

    "I admire any N.B.A. couple that takes steps to make their relationship work
    because, let's face it, there are a lot of people out there who want to
    disrupt what we have," Fox said. "This is not the healthiest environment for
    a marriage. You've got to have a lot of trust to be married to any
    professional athlete."

    Many of the game's most prominent players have taken part in the league's
    extravagant lifestyle. Magic Johnson acknowledged after announcing in 1991
    that he had contracted H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, that he had been
    promiscuous. Patrick Ewing testified last year in a federal racketeering
    trial in Atlanta about sexual favors he received from dancers at a local
    strip club.

    Jackie Christie arrives before games with her husband and leaves with him
    afterward. She sends him a note in the locker room before each game, taken
    there by a team attendant. He writes a reply and sends it back. Sometimes on
    the road, Jackie will ride in a car behind the team bus, talking to Doug on
    his cellphone until he arrives at the hotel or arena.

    Doug Christie says he is a willing participant in these rituals. "It was
    hard for me to do the interview about this and say this is my life," he
    said. "Because some people will say: `That's a bunch of garbage. He's
    lying.' But this is who I am and who we are."

    During Christie's time in Toronto, Jackie was uncomfortable that women
    working for the Raptors went into the locker room to distribute statistics
    after games. So Doug began dressing in an adjacent room. An Eastern
    Conference team official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that
    he had warned the Kings about obtaining Christie two years ago because of
    some of the issues his wife had raised in Toronto.

    "I just felt I needed to protect my territory in the beginning," Jackie
    said. "So I had a lot of issues. I have a jealous bone in my body, yes. It's
    probably as big as me. I'm very easygoing until I feel a threat."

    She added: "Doug is allowed to look at females. I would prefer he didn't."

    Jackie sometimes has made it clear to her husband and team employees that
    certain female reporters should not be allowed to interview her husband
    unless she is present. "If she wants an interview, I will attend it with my
    husband so there can be no games," she said.

    Some of the Kings kid Christie about the hand signals. "Hedo will flash the
    sign at my wife from over on the bench," he said of Hedo Turkoglu, the
    Kings' swingman. "They have fun with it, but they also respect and accept
    it."

    Christie is a versatile 6-foot-6 player who made the N.B.A.'s all-defensive
    team because of his long arms, quickness and desire. Off the floor, he is a
    laid-back 10-year veteran. Introverted outside the locker room, he is
    thoughtful and well read. Born to a biracial couple - his father is black,
    his mother white - Christie grew up in Seattle.

    He met Jackie, a former part-time model, at a sports bar through a friend
    before he was drafted out of Pepperdine in 1992. He said his lifestyle was
    much more carefree and rambunctious before his marriage.

    "Each of us has to go through and find our own way and mine was the route
    that I took," he said. "We all have choices, and the choices I was making
    back then were not the ones I would want to teach to my children."

    Asked if he considered his current behavior drastic, Christie shook his head
    no. "It's not that I'm not allowed to look at women, it's just respect," he
    said. "I choose this. There is nothing out there for me to want or try to go
    after. That's not what I'm trying to be about."

    The Christies say their behavior has not been influenced by a religious sect
    or a life-altering event.

    "I really can't explain it to you, except one day we were in the driveway of
    our Seattle home before I got married and all of a sudden all these
    revelations started coming to me in 1994," Christie said. "It came from God.
    I used to tell her, `I know where I want to go, but I don't know how to get
    there.' Everything became clear when I told her I wanted to marry her. The
    life I was leading before I didn't want anymore."

    Jackie looked approvingly at her husband and smiled. "I get a lot of women
    who asked me, `How did you get Doug to act that way?' "

    He said: "Our love is boundless and free. For me, it doesn't feel like a
    restriction. It's a lifestyle, the way we live. So it's easy. It's not, `You
    can't do this, you can't do that.' "

    ______________________________________________________

    I'd put in some wiseass comment here, but what's the point. It couldn't possibly top the article itself.
     

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