SPORTS
NFL jersey numbers are changing and I don’t like it
Football is already back, but for me it does not feel like it has really started until the NFL season starts which it does this Thursday.
While every season brings with it some rule changes and such, the biggest one for me is purely an aesthetic one I am not a fan. Starting this season, players can now wear whatever jersey number they want.
I know, it is a stupid thing no one really is complaining about outside of maybe some jersey collectors out there who I guess have to buy certain players jerseys again if they have gone and changed their jersey.
I am warning you right away, this is one of those arguments where someone is wanting the status quo to stay for no other reason than because they are used to it.
I believe just because something is a tradition is not a good enough reason for it to not change or evolve. As a contradiction and a fan of NFL history, I don’t like this though.
I blame youth, high school and college football number culture and Keyshawn Johnson specifically. Somewhere lost to time, it became cool for skill position or playmaker types (wide receivers, running backs, defensive backs, linebackers) to wear the single digit or teen numbers at the lower levels of football.
Maybe because they want to be on the bottom row of team pictures organized by jersey number. Maybe because single digit numbers also are wanted in other sports and they want to match that jersey number as well. Who knows after all these years why it is considered cool.
Traditionally in the NFL these numbers were reserved only for quarterbacks and kickers. Running backs and defensive backs had numbers 20-49 while receivers and tight ends had all of the 80-89, with the odd tight end maybe having a number in the 40s. Linebackers had all of the 50-59.
To read the rest of this rant, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1
Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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