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Noah Spence's New Number

By HolyBuckeye1093 -04 February 2012
19 Comments
- Football

Looks like Noah Spence will be wearing #8 for the Silver Bullet defense. Per his Twitter..

So whoever threw out their Devier Posey jersey out of disgust may want to get a new one.

J.Mo on 4 Feb 2012 - 12:15am #

I prefer Dline to have double digit numbers. Last dlineman with single digit number was also a 5*... Rob Rose.

Buckeyejason on 4 Feb 2012 - 12:16am #

#8? Quite odd for a D-End I have to say.

Run_Fido's favorite word is strawman.

lljjgg on 4 Feb 2012 - 12:22am #

Single digits for speed! Or that's the thought I suppose haha, not sure that it makes any logical sense.

I remember watching an NFL special a couple years back where they talked about the fact that receivers wanted to change their numbers to single digits because they felt it made them look slimmer, thus faster.

HolyBuckeye1093 on 4 Feb 2012 - 12:31am #

I found it odd too but then I remembered from the Gator Bowl that Florida had several DL wear single digits: Easley, Howard and Powell all wear single digits.

BuckeyeNation on 4 Feb 2012 - 12:45am #

I would like to see Jamaal Marcus' number to be X... like Bill Goldberg's was in the movie The Longest Yard. Technically it is a number... it's just in Roman, that's all!

otrain2416 on 4 Feb 2012 - 4:25am #

what funny is everyone seems to be competeing for single digit numbers now and sometimes it even effects recruiting. Since when did wearing a single digit number make you a star football player?

buckeyebru on 4 Feb 2012 - 8:23am #

Hopefully that will be his minimun number of sacks each year. Give him a 20 and tell him to attack them funny looking stolen from princeton helmets.

Bru

unknownmusketeer on 4 Feb 2012 - 9:42am #

@ OTRAIN2416 - Single digit numbers (1 through 11 actually) in European Football have always meant starter. Maybe the trend is catching on in American Football.

awwwwwwop on 4 Feb 2012 - 11:07am #

I think single digits on receivers do make them look skinnier but on d linemen it makes them look way bigger

"Who cares? Go Bucks." - Aaron Untch

BrewstersMillions on 4 Feb 2012 - 11:23am #

I actually like how guys can wear numbers that aren't assigned to position groups. I sort of like the odd numbers players end up with sometimes. Spence will wear 8, Shazier will wear 10, Sabino is 5. Etc. I guess I just like the way it breaks up the NFL's monotony towards numbers.

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