# football advice please **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 15, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663 "2011-01-15T01:19:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![parsnip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parsnip/32/4564_2.png) [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/1 "2011-01-15T01:19:51Z")
I need to appear at a work event in a football jersey. Between Washington, Philadelphia, and Indianapolis, what player’s number I can I get at a major sports store with the least associated embarassment. Went on one site and all the Albert Haynesworth stuff was half-off. If he’s coming back, I don’t know why TPTB are selling him cheap. Do I go with the great athelete, the “bad boy” or what? Blending in with people who know about sports is hard for a know-nothing. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/2 "2011-01-15T01:37:07Z")
Indy #18, Peyton Manning, is a completely safe bet, and easy to find, too. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/3 "2011-01-15T01:55:52Z")
for the skins? Cooley #47 for the colts? you can’t go wrong with Manning #18. i’d stay away from philly… ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/4 "2011-01-15T02:56:08Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > i’d stay away from philly… So Vick may be a bad choice? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/5 "2011-01-15T05:30:17Z")
> [@parsnip](#): > > If he’s coming back, I don’t know why TPTB are selling him cheap. Probably because he’s _persona non grata_ among Redskins fans, and the retailers can’t give his jerseys away. Agreed that a Peyton Manning Colts jersey is your safest bet. The guy’s squeaky-clean and well-respected. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/6 "2011-01-15T05:32:23Z")
Concur on Peyton Manning, the best player of those three teams with the most crossover appeal and no baggage. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/7 "2011-01-15T05:40:26Z")
Could you still get an old Redskin’s #7 jersey (Joe Theisman)? ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/8 "2011-01-15T05:48:27Z")
yaknow **burby** i don’t know you from squat outside of mafia but … you need a #9 redskins old jersey. you and sonny jergensen = peas in a pod. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/9 "2011-01-15T05:50:20Z")
neta: at least in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/10 "2011-01-15T06:06:32Z")
> [@peekercpa](#): > > neta: at least in my mind. It’s OK peeker, you can edit your posts out here in the ‘real world’. And I’m afraid Sonny is just a bit before my time. Gimme an old Raiders #12 for Kenny the Snake… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/11 "2011-01-15T06:31:34Z")
If you want to go old school 'Skins, #44 was Hall of Fame RB [John Riggins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riggins). He did get arrested for DUI, but Wiki says he was acquitted. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/12 "2011-01-18T22:19:15Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Concur on Peyton Manning, the best player of those three teams with the most crossover appeal and no baggage. If there are smartass sports fans there, you may have people offering you bologna-on-wonderbread-no-mustard-no-mayo sandwiches washed down with decaffeinated ice tea and the like. But dressing as an emblem of boring, clean-cut whiteness isn’t the worst thing, and he’s certainly the most recognizable, most likely to be starting on the same team next year, and least controversial. If it was me, I’d see how much it would cost to get a cheap personalized jersey with some fictional person’s name. Why wear the name of someone you don’t know and couldn’t care less about? If I could remember any fictional and entertaining football players I’d say go with that, but why not put “JT Kirk” on it, or “B Zimmerman” (that would be either a Vikings or New York jersey, probably), or whoever real or fictional floats your boat? [Warning: Not that I think you’re considering it, but just pointing out that ‘B Obama’ only belongs on a basketball jersey] ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/13 "2011-01-18T22:32:01Z")
I’ve been wondering this season just how well the Steelers #22 jersey has been selling? ---
**Author:** ![parsnip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parsnip/32/4564_2.png) [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-advice-please/567663/14 "2011-01-22T16:24:10Z")
OP here–thanks for all the advice. I ended up buying the jersey of a former Washington player. It turned out that half the people there pulled my chain, but 1 guy wanted the shirt because it just happened to be the name of one of his customers. Off it went! I did win a door prize for “best dressed who knows nothing about the subject matter”.