# Pointless gripe: generational suffixes on sports uniforms

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-gripe-generational-suffixes-on-sports-uniforms/844433>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 5, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-gripe-generational-suffixes-on-sports-uniforms/844433 "2019-12-05T22:07:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-gripe-generational-suffixes-on-sports-uniforms/844433/41 "2019-12-27T05:07:30Z")

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No fewer than 3 ‘III’ in the Quick Lane Bowl tonight.

By the way, I’m 11-2 in my picks so far this year. Had to tell someone!

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**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-gripe-generational-suffixes-on-sports-uniforms/844433/42 "2019-12-27T14:54:28Z")

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In Cricket, for Test matches they only just started putting names or numbers on the back of shirts at all this year.

They’ve had them in the other formats for a while, although I can’t think of any cricketing “Jrs” to see what they had on their shirts.

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