# What jersey numbers did you wear on your sports teams? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 5, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718 "2022-06-05T23:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/1 "2022-06-05T23:39:35Z")
If you participated in sports, what jersey numbers did you wear? I became a fan of the number 12 after finding a red football-looking jersey with that number on it and buying it from a thrift store, but when I wanted to find it and wear it for cross-country in eighth grade, it wasn’t there. So I wore #42. That’s the only team I ever participated on; I’m a choir guy. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/2 "2022-06-05T23:55:12Z")
I was gonna say, “Number on my chest? Never happened to me.” “I am not a number! I am a free man!” ---
**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:** [June 6, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/3 "2022-06-06T00:02:44Z")
I played on my school’s touch football team in 8th grade; I wore #15, mostly because that was the jersey that I was given. Though, as it had been the number of legendary Packers quarterback Bart Starr, I grew attached to the number. As an adult, I played on a team in a big three-on-three basketball tournament in Chicago for several years, and we had uniform shirts made for ourselves; on that team, I wore “00,” in part because it was the number of two NFL players I had liked (Jim Otto and Ken Burrough), and in part because it is a fundamentally silly sort of number. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/4 "2022-06-06T00:18:18Z")
I always wore number one. But I was a football (soccer) goalkeeper, and that’s what all football goalies wore at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/5 "2022-06-06T00:22:02Z")
I was a defensive lineman on my middle school’s football team in 7th and 8th grade. My first year I wore #50 and played guard. My second year I wore #52 and played tackle. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/6 "2022-06-06T00:33:16Z")
13 and 4, both when playing as soccer goalkeeper. 13, because I wanted to show that it’s not an unlucky number. The same logic with 4 when I was with a Chinese soccer team, because 4 is considered unlucky like 13 is in the West. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/7 "2022-06-06T01:00:00Z")
#17 here, for QB and baseball/softball. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/8 "2022-06-06T05:57:29Z")
The baseball that I played (starting with Little League and carrying through some of my high school years), I wore #13. At first because it was assigned to me. I carried it over into my high school years. I’ve played in softball leagues since then, and usually wore #6. Mostly because my father, who died in 2001, was a big fan of [a player for the Chicago Cubs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Moreland?wprov=sfti1) who wore that number. Why he was such a fan of this guy, I can’t say. ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/9 "2022-06-08T06:30:23Z")
Eternal tighthead prop. Always wore No. 3 ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/10 "2022-06-08T13:26:35Z")
Most recently, I was on a rec league volleyball team this past winter. I wore #98 because I figured I’d be the only person in the whole league who had that number. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/11 "2022-06-08T14:59:50Z")
Football, played center in Jr. High and wore #50. Switched to defensive tackle in High School and wore #74. Didn’t have numbers on wresting singlet. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/12 "2022-06-08T15:04:04Z")
#12 in Little League baseball. I wanted #7 to be like Mickey Mantle, but fucking Scott got to pick before I did. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/13 "2022-06-08T15:40:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I wanted #7 to be like Mickey Mantle, but fucking Scott got to pick before I did. That fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/14 "2022-06-08T20:11:11Z")
I played soccer in high school but can’t remember what number I was. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jersey-numbers-did-you-wear-on-your-sports-teams/965718/15 "2023-02-16T15:03:13Z")
10 for basketball and hockey, forward for both Number varied for football, but i always played linebacker and special teams. High school only. I was bigger than the fast guys and faster than the big guys