But what is this trend over the last few years of hooking the pants leg under the heal cleat? What's it supposed to do?
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Its supposed to make ya look " cool ".
( cough-cough,..shaking my mother-knows-best head left to right )
Don't get me wrong,...I'm all for being a fashionista diva/dude,..but this is one style I don't fully understand.
Perhaps its simply just another teenage-trend. (??? )
( cough-cough,..shaking my mother-knows-best head left to right )
Don't get me wrong,...I'm all for being a fashionista diva/dude,..but this is one style I don't fully understand.
Perhaps its simply just another teenage-trend. (??? )
My son has done this in the past to try to make his Southland pants longer....this year, we bought the extra-extra long Southland pants and he still does it! So, guess he better find a new excuse as to why he does it.... 
Loose cleats? Helps to keep them on?
Okay "old fogey", since you started this 
, Why do basketball players wear "skirts" to play in? Why do womens' volleyball teams wear skintight bottoms that leave nothing to the imagination? Why do women track athletes run in bikini bottoms and yet the men run in
thigh-length spandex? AND of course, why do our young guys wear pants that are 3 sizes too large and then walk around holding their crotches to keep their pants from falling off? Questions to ponder.
You'd like to think our baseball guys would have a little more common sense than the rest
of the athletic world.
Call me Old Fogey II.
, Why do basketball players wear "skirts" to play in? Why do womens' volleyball teams wear skintight bottoms that leave nothing to the imagination? Why do women track athletes run in bikini bottoms and yet the men run inthigh-length spandex? AND of course, why do our young guys wear pants that are 3 sizes too large and then walk around holding their crotches to keep their pants from falling off? Questions to ponder.
You'd like to think our baseball guys would have a little more common sense than the rest
of the athletic world.
Call me Old Fogey II.
Old Fogey III here...
I guess I'm a dirty old fogey, I like the volleyball outfits!?
To add to the list...
My lefty saw somewhere that left handers tend to wear their hats off center, now he often looks goofy to me.
To add to the list...
My lefty saw somewhere that left handers tend to wear their hats off center, now he often looks goofy to me.
ok i hate to admit i like the longer pants, especially when i have to wear them. i think i like the look ,don't understand the hookig them under the cleat thing. i don't hate the volleyball either. lol
Son's high school coach would never allow this, besides they are ruining an expensive pair of pants. If the pants are too short, sew a strip of elastic to the botton of each leg and wear the elastic on inside of your cleat (nothing shows), this usually works for the long legs on my son except for his high school uniform, the pants were really too short, so he has to wear them under the knee. I am an old fogget.
quote:Originally posted by louisiana09:
they are ruining an expensive pair of pants.
BINGO! That is why I have a problem with my son wearing them that way...
Dirty Old Fogey II here...love the volleyball shorts. 
You get some with pants pulled up to show sock, some at the shoe level, and some under the back spikes...it is because kids are generally knuckleheads.
You get some with pants pulled up to show sock, some at the shoe level, and some under the back spikes...it is because kids are generally knuckleheads.
quote:Originally posted by T-Bird Dad:
Dirty Old Fogey II here...love the volleyball shorts.
You get some with pants pulled up to show sock, some at the shoe level, and some under the back spikes...it is because kids are generally knuckleheads.
I have said that kids a generally knuckleheads for years. Good to see I am not alone. How about womens beach vollyball. Those girls can jump really high.
quote:Originally posted by 20dad:
ok i hate to admit i like the longer pants, especially when i have to wear them. i think i like the look ,don't understand the hookig them under the cleat thing. i don't hate the volleyball either. lol
Now we know who wears the long pants in the family!
quote:Okay "old fogey", since you started this , Why do basketball players wear "skirts" to play in?
That's the one that disappoints me. In the '70's, I used to get dragged to UNLV basketball games with a business contact, and the ONLY reason I went was because it was the only sport (at least, then...now there are none) where the (male) players wore less than the cheerleaders!
I might be a bit different but I attended/watched games for the GAMES---could not tell you about the uniforms because I never noticed---Also never dated a cheerleader in HS or college
My 13 year old daughter plays volleyball and I asked her the question about the tight clothing. She said the whole uniform is designed tight to avoid any clothing contact with the net. Made sense to me but the uniforms still seem a little bit too tight 
Every once in a while, a thread inspires a song out of me. This one inspired me to post the following Merle Haggard classic:
Every once in a while, a thread inspires a song out of me. This one inspired me to post the following Merle Haggard classic:
quote:Okie From Muskogee
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
And we don't take our trips on LSD.
We don't burn no draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin' right, and bein' free.
We don't make no party out of lovin';
We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo;
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave 'Old Glory' down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.
Hey, leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen.
And football's still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids there still respect the college dean.
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave 'Old Glory' down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
And if I were the least bit interested in basketball, the game might have been important. See, it wasn't baseball.....
I like the old stirrups, up to the knees, but get used to it. The long pants legs are here to stay...and I've gotten used to it. Most college players seem to wear the long pants. I've lost my argument that you seemingly would want the umpire to know where your knees are....
quote:Originally posted by hokieone:
I like the old stirrups, up to the knees, but get used to it. The long pants legs are here to stay...and I've gotten used to it. Most college players seem to wear the long pants. I've lost my argument that you seemingly would want the umpire to know where your knees are....
Hokie, if todays players thought umpires were somehow influenced by the length of the pants some yahoos would try wearing volleyball shorts.
remember these guys?
He doesn't like to be reminded but my little brother was a part of Bill Veeck's "experiment" in those years.
spizzle:
That's an absolutely hysterical photo...look at the fashion from back then...unbelievable!
Try to imagine yourself wearing that...it really is almost impossible to picture.
That sport jacket is utterly ridiculous looking!
That's an absolutely hysterical photo...look at the fashion from back then...unbelievable!
Try to imagine yourself wearing that...it really is almost impossible to picture.
That sport jacket is utterly ridiculous looking!
My son gets the biggest laugh you ever heard when
he is watching the classic basketball games and
their short uniforms.
he is watching the classic basketball games and
their short uniforms.
Who could forget thoseclassic Chicago WhiteSox Professional Baseball/Softball teams. I bet they could tear it up in the Slow Pitch Softball leagues!
Sky, we'd call those type of shorts.....Knutt Huggers!
Nuthin like a guy who's 7'4" wearing shorts made for a Ken Doll.
Sky, we'd call those type of shorts.....Knutt Huggers!
Nuthin like a guy who's 7'4" wearing shorts made for a Ken Doll.
quote:Nuthin like a guy who's 7'4" wearing shorts made for a Ken Doll.
LOL,....sure made us Barbies, happy!
( back in the day,..of course! ha! )
Everything else from the 70's is back in style... doesn't look like the short shorts are going to make it though. Sorry SSmom (rain all week here... bummer)
quote:(rain all week here... bummer)
You know it, neighbor! ....and our HS is on its Spring Break,...
