I'm glad Tom Brady doesn't have Brady Jr on his jersey

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Are you one of those guys who don't like grown men wearing another man's name on the back of a jersey?

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I mean...yeah. Grown men wearing modern sports jerseys are pretty funny.

You wanna rock a vintage jersey, cool. But going to buy a guy's jersey that you could have fathered is kind of sad.

But...people are free to do all sorts of things I choose not to, so more power to them/you I guess.

So if someone's father passed away that they were very close to and wanted to do this to honor them - you would think that is stupid?

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The Jr. doesnt even refer to the last name really. Your last name does NOT include the Jr. lol.

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Bingo. I once heard Cal Ripken Jr say that he wanted him and his brother to have the same name on the back of the jersey.

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I've never understood putting a suffix on the back of a jersey. It's refreshing to see someone not put that on their jersey when they could (he's legally named Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr).

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imagine caring about this

It has nothing to do with good stock lol. You just have kids that have kids.

it doesn't bother me, but if Junior didn't put on his back

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I’m 37 and wear my Zion, borrow, and mike Thomas jerseys

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What part of Ohio are you from?

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I hate when they put Jo. Smith and Ja. Smith on the back on the jerseys when two people have the same last name. That’s what the numbers are for.

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In the 70's the U of TX had 2 Johnny Joneses.

Ham, Lam, and Jam

I think Jam barely got there before one of the others graduated.

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How is it sad? How is one better than the other? I just don’t get it.

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I'll try and explain my POV this way. When I was a kid, I looked up to these guys as larger than life. It really wasn't until I was in high school and went to LSU's Fan Day in the fall of 1986 and got to meet Harvey Williams and Sammy Martin. Williams was an incoming freshman and Martin was a senior. Despite the fact that Williams had calves like a damn horse, I was nearly as tall as him, and towered over Martin as a 16 year old. It was a strange feeling and sort of humanized them all for me.

It was largely why I lost interest in college sports while I was in college myself, because these were contemporaries. I picked it all back up a few years later in my mid to late 20's, but it never felt the same. Still loved it, but that hero worship was obviously gone. And when it was hero worship is when I'd have happily worn a jersey.

As a grown arse 50 year old adult, the idea of buying a jersey for a guy in his 20's seems weird to me. The reason I'd have done that as a kid, looking up to them, is no longer there. On the other hand, I'll never stop looking up to the guys I looked up to when I was a kid, right? Although I don't own any, I'd wear the hell out of some Ebbets Field Flannels, for instance.

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Like I said, the mileage of others may vary, but this is why I personally would never do it and why I find it odd.