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Nameless No More

By 11W Staff - 07 August 2012
5 Comments
- Football

Penn State will feature player names on the back of jerseys for the first time this season. (btn.com)

Source btn.com/2012/08/07/penn-state-announces-changes-to-football-uniform/

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Poe McKnoe on 7 Aug 2012 - 8:53pm #

I'll copy my tweet from earlier:

Actually, they've always been on the jerseys. They were just covered up by Joe Paterno.

ShowThemOhiosHere on 8 Aug 2012 - 1:05am #

^^I literally LOL'd at that.

I like it. It's a new era at Penn State. They will also wear ribbons for Sandusky's victims. At least somebody over there gets it.

Class of 2010.

buckeyedude on 7 Aug 2012 - 10:08pm #

Whoop-de-doo! Names on the back of the jerseys? Big effing deal.

"Here officer, hold my beer while I find my license."

tennbuckeye19 on 8 Aug 2012 - 10:50am #

This is interesting. Penn State folks always trumpeted the fact that they didn't put their names on the back of their jersey because the it was all about the team and not the individual.

I recall a t-shirt they were selling in Happy Valley where they were dissing Terrelle Pryor after OSU's loss in the Shoe in October of 2008 (where Pryor made multiple costly errors) and his decision to play at OSU and to shun his home state Nittany Lions. The caption on the shirt said this: