An Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to Wearing/Caring for Your Seahawks Jersey

Got a couple good laughs out of this one!!
I have a rule on ex, or no longer Seahawks (i.e. Ken Hamlin). They can be worn anywhere, but at a game.

-I won’t wear a jersey of an injured player… One of the few things I’m superstitious about… just seems like bad mojo.

-If a guy leaves the Seahawks, and I keep his jersey rather than sell it on eBay, I won’t wear it again until he retires… even then, it sort of depends on the context of how he left the team.

i.e my DJ Hackett jersey in my closet

I loved the Lohan line. that slayed me. Interesting note about dryer care – hadn’t heard that one before.

Personally, I think its fine to wear an old player’s Jersey. One of my buddies will only buy Jersey’s after the player leaves (he’s a cheapskate). If you have standards, its actually kind of cool to rock a Jurevicius or Dilfer jersey. But yeah, context is everything.

I’ve always gone the replica jersey route, in part because no Seahawk in the past 5 years or so has had be excited enough to plunk down extra cash. I have Truf, and last year made the plunge to by a Deon Grant jersey (not because he’s my favorite player, but because Grant is my first name – thought it was a nice combo).

I bought a Hasselbeck one. It’s a nice little piece of memerobilia.

Would that be hip? Or at least ironic?

A size too big but I can’t be too mad at them for that, getting jerseys out here to Europe is hecka expensive.

Couldn’t resist as my first name is Thomas and I absolutely love the kid, but it is breaking a cardinal jersey rule isn’t it? Don’t buy jerseys for players who have not shown anything as a Hawk yet.

I thought it was funny when guys wearing Shauns jersey in ’07 were letting him yelling how much he sucks.

I am tall and kinda thin. I really wanted to get a Walt jersey but it just didn’t look right on me.

Now, I’m only 24 and was a bit late in the whole jersey buying club, so my wall isn’t too big yet.

But after a Seahawk great retires, I frame the jersey and hang it on my wall.

Right now my wall of fame looks like:

Jones Strong Alexander

Hass is probably going to be the next tear

I currently rock Tatupu, Curry and I want a Carlson and Mebane and Thomas

Planning on getting a (replica) Golden Tate, Earl Thomas, John Carlson, or Aaron Curry. Probably Golden Tate. Not sure if home, away, or lime green, yet.

My Shaun Alexander replica ‘away’ jersey hangs in the closet – retired.

My cheaply made, JC Penny’s special ‘home’ Hasselbeck jersey somehow lost most of the ‘8’ on the front, while the ‘8’ on the back is fine. That one pisses me off. I think it somehow found the dryer.

Have any ‘proper amount of bleach for properly brightening away jerseys recommendations’?

That Walter Thurmond’s #28 is going to become popular before too long.

And I’ve never—to my recollection—worn a jersey to a football game. If I wore my little Zorn home replica to a game in the 70’s it escapes my memory. I do always wear something team-related if I’m at a Seahawks game (hat/t-shirt or both). I own a #28 authentic home mesh with no name on the back that looks exactly like Easley’s above. The mesh is definitely funky but the holes are not big enough to stick a finger through.

Now it’s covered in autographs (God bless VMAC practices). It’ll never see the inside of a washer in its lifetime. Hell, it’ll probably never see a cleaner of any kind.

how awful was it to buy a Jerry Rice Hawks’ Jersey?. I have always admired Jerry and when he came to my team I couldn’t pass it up. I bought it the day they came in to our local Sports store. It is fun to screw around with my friends that are Raiders and 49ers Fans when I wear that over to watch some games on Sunday.

I also have a Trufant, Mack Strong, Housh (Lime Green), Vintage Curt Warner that does have mesh holes I can poke my fat fingers through, and my prized Largent Authentic my Family bought me for christmas one year.

Also have a Ken Lucas Rookie Authentic that I got on E-bay for 5 bucks because the people that had it didn’t know who it was. I have no idea how they ended up with it but I’m not complaining about it.

I’m too poor to afford any form of a legitimate jersey, so I have a Rick Mirer #3 that I picked up at Goodwill and a Lofa jersey that I discovered is completely fake. It was the siren call of eBay that got me…

So in the last week three things happened:

1. Made a big trade in my fantasy league, which put John Carlson on my roster

2. Got my new John Carlson home Jersey delivered

3. Got my tickets for the Cardinals game delivered, which features a picture of John Carlson!

I can’t figure out if this is a good sign, or if I just jinxed the hell out of the poor guy….

Its a toss-up that looks more and more like Tate is going up and coming down with the ball jersey.

Name on the back is “ENFORCER”. Easley was the best.

Was at Training Camp #1 and from 30 feet away on the side line, saw the catch Tate went up on and came down with the ball on #23 Tru (whos Jersey I happen to rock the most). Almost as if to say:

Here you go Tru, this is for wearing my Notre Dame number.

However, I’ve been on Team J-Force since we drafted him and I can’t help but think that this is going to be his break-out year.

Turning tricks on Aurora to afford both jerseys it is!

One is an authentic Chad Ochocinco jersey that I bought before he changed his legal name and Reebok begrudgingly let him change the name on the back of his jersey. The other is a replica Tatupu that I got as a gift.

When Mebane gets signed long-term, I’ll get one of his.

Before I got that I hadn’t owned a jersey since I was a kid. Decided I had to rock colors somehow for the Superbowl in ‘05, but between being poor and not wanting to jinx them I wasn’t gonna buy a jersey right before the big game I did a little DIY job. Spraypaint, cheap T, and a homemade stencil. Turned out okay.

(Paul Allen, please don’t sue me!)

The sleeves have the three white stripes on them and the old Seahawks logo is on the chest. It’s pretty sweet! I really want to get a jersey this year. I’m not sure who yet, but with my body style I’m thinking of going with a LB or TE.