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When I covered high-school football from 1979 until a few years ago, I hated teams with numbers that were almost indistinguishable from the rest of the uniform.
I once covered a team with black numbers and dark green jerseys. Another team wore white jerseys with gold numbers. You couldn't tell WHO had the ball.
In the '80s, there was a team that wore powder-blue (or white) jerseys with light numbers. If you were close, you could tell who was who. The problem from a distance was that the quarterback wore 10, the fullback wore 20, the halfbacks wore 30 and 40, respectively, and the main wide receiver wore 80.
Ugh!
One of those teams later changed their numbers to black on white or white on black; and I was happy.
Then a few years later, they went back to the light numbers with no striping around them.
Boy, I hate that.
I once covered a team with black numbers and dark green jerseys. Another team wore white jerseys with gold numbers. You couldn't tell WHO had the ball.
In the '80s, there was a team that wore powder-blue (or white) jerseys with light numbers. If you were close, you could tell who was who. The problem from a distance was that the quarterback wore 10, the fullback wore 20, the halfbacks wore 30 and 40, respectively, and the main wide receiver wore 80.
Ugh!
One of those teams later changed their numbers to black on white or white on black; and I was happy.
Then a few years later, they went back to the light numbers with no striping around them.
Boy, I hate that.
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