The Epidemic Of Pro Athletes Wearing Other Team Apparel

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We have all seen it before, such and such athlete plays for a certain team in a certain city and sport than a random picture surfaces of them wearing another teams jersey in the same sport. It seems to be happening a lot lately and it’s just weird to see players not in their regular apparel. Take John Wall in the picture above with Lakers guard Nick Young, John Wall is clearly pictured on the left rocking a throwback Steve Smith #8 Atlanta Hawks throwback jersey.

Now if he was a regular guy then it would be no big deal, Wall is obviously no regular guy he happens to be an all-star and the face of the Washington Wizards. He probably just likes he way the jersey looks and can you really blame him? Those 90’s Hawks jerseys were sick, maybe he grew up a fan of Steve Smith but this raises the question of how big of a deal is a player wearing another teams jersey or hat? Players know that everything gets over analyzed in this social media driven society so why would they put on another jersey from another team that plays in a different city. Can they be fans too or is just their subtle way of telling us where they would like to play? Let’s take a look at some players who have worn other teams apparel.

Those pictures are some of the many examples I could give you of pro athletes wearing apparel of other teams within their own sports or wearing apparel with teams from other cities on it. So this begs the question of if a player has to support the home team they now play in. Plenty of guys do it but plenty don’t here are some of the pro athletes that support the teams in the cities they play in.

So as you can see there are plenty of athletes who wind up making the switch to whatever city they play for. Many guys do but at the end of the day many guys don’t and if they choose not to that’s their choice, however should a player stop producing for the team that employs them and leave for the team or city on their cap fans now have ammunition to use if that happens. So to all the pro athletes out there pick what you wear carefully and sacrifice swag for some common sense.