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  • Which would you rather have for a rebuilding team?

    Pick one from each of the 6 following choices and tell me why you'd rather have him or them if your team was rebuilding:

    1. Andrew Luck as your QB or Jim Harbaugh as your coach?

    2. Ray Lewis as your defense's captain or Steve Spagnuolo as your DC?

    3. Adrian Peterson as your feature back or a RB committee of Brandon Jacobs and Reggie Bush?

    4. WR/TE combo of Calvin Johnson and Dustin Keller or WR/TE combo of Jeremy Maclin and Rob

    Gronkowski?

    5. Patrick Peterson and Morris Claiborne as your 2 starting CBs or Troy Polamalu as your starting safety?

    6. An all Pro Bowl offensive line of Maurkice Pouncey, Joe Thomas, Joe Staley, Logan Mankins, and Jahri Evans or a defensive line featuring Jason Pierre-Paul, J.J. Watt, and Ndamukong Suh?

    6 AnswersFootball (American)9 years ago

  • Why are Jersey Numbers Above 50 so Rare in Basketball?

    In basketball, the most common numbers are in the 40's and below, by an unbelievably enormous margin. I know that one of the reasons is that most teams rarely have more than 15 players, which is the maximum number of players a NBA team is allowed to have. But especially in today's time, where people "dare to be different" and where some fans would love to see a player cut his own path and not follow in someone else's shadow, a player still almost never chooses a number higher than 50.

    The 2 most recent cases in the NBA that I can recall are Drew Gooden (#90 for the Spurs) and Ron Artest (#96 for the Rockets, a.k.a. the Queensbridge jersey) a couple of seasons ago. Just about everyone else in the league had a number that was below 50.

    Aside from a small roster size, why are these higher jersey numbers so rarely chosen?

    6 AnswersBasketball1 decade ago