Nov
10
Red Jerseys in Jersey
Filed Under Sports on Saturday, November 10th 2007

Good thing Notre Dame isn’t playing New York these days!

Tomorrow afternoon, my beloved New York Giants take on the Dallas Cowboys in what promises to be an entertaining and likely disappointing (for me, anyway) football game.

It was announced that the Giants are scheduled to wear their Red Alternate jerseys for the game, no doubt to take advantage of the national television audience and perhaps generate a bit more income through the sale of this unusual uniform top.

If you believe what you read on the internet, the red alternate is quite controversial among fans of the team that carries the nickname ‘Big Blue’ but after looking at this poster of a charity game from 1930, it seems that the red jerseys were standard back in the the very earliest days of the organization, one of the oldest in professional football.