Players you will always associate with certain jersey numbers.

Just for fun. From 1 to 99, what players will ALWAYS be that number for you? You don't have to list numbers that don't qualify, obviously.

ME:

1 - Bernie Parent
2 - David Akers
5 - Donovan McNabb
8 - Shane Victorino
9 - Scottie Upshall
10 - John LeClair
11 - Jimmy Rollins
12 - Simon Gagne
18 - Mike Richards
19 - Mikael Renberg
20 - Brian Dawkins
22 - Mike Knuble
23 - Michael Jordan (duh unless you're from Cleveland, and even then)
24 - Sami Kapanen
25 - Keith Primeau (best captain of all time)
26 - Chase Utley
27 - Ron Hextall (best goalie)
28 - Claude Giroux
33 - Cliff Lee (probably)
35 - Cole Hamels
51 - Carlos Ruiz
54 - Jeremiah Trotter
58 - Trent Cole
66 - Mario Lemieux (fuck this guy)
77 - Chris Gratton (fuck this guy too)
84 - Hank Baskett
87 - Sidney Crosby (fuck this guy most)
88 - Eric Lindros
99 - Wayne Gretzky (duh)

That's all I can think of. A lot of famous player don't necessarily attach to their numbers for me (e.g. I don't think of Favre as the only #4).

lol @ cliff lee over kareem

edit: lol at a lot of things

#31 Greg Maddux

Fucking lol @ Keith being the best captain of all time. I only have a select few mind-retired numbers... these are ones that feel uncomfortable if another player is wearing, even in a different sport.

4 - Favre
9 - Howe
19 - Yzerman (the best captain of all time)
23 - Jordan
99 - Gretzky

2 jeter <3

23. Warnie

3 Babe Ruth
4 Bobby Orr
6 Bill Russell
7 Phil Esposito
8 Yaz
9 Ted Williams
11 Drew Bledsoe
12 Tom Brady
22 Shawn Thornton
23 Michael Jordan
30 Tim Thomas
32 Magic Johnson
33 Larry Bird
42 Jackie Robinson
77 Ray Bourque
87 Cindy
99 Gretzsky

whatever Detroit fags

85 - Chad Ochocinco

0 - all of the Monstars
4 - Favre
8 - Ovechkin
18 - Peyton
21 - Greivis Vasquez
33 - Gerald Johanssen

23 - David Beckham

Interesting that 23 seems to be worn by the most high profile players in their sports. ie. Beckham, Warne, Jordan.

Warnie, Beckham and Jordan didn't spring to mind for me - definitely always going to be Jamie Carragher


32 - Peter Matera
14 - Xabi Alonso
27 - Glen Jakovich

9's a fucking crazy one with all of our and every other team's number one strikers and Ben Cousins and Nick Naitanui for West Coast.

2-jeter
3-daneyko
4-stevens
8-ovechkin
9-parise
10-manning
14-gionta
18-brylin
23-jordan
26-elias
27-niedermayer
30-brodeur
42-rivera
87-crosby
99-gretzky

lol

10. Diego Armando Maradonna and Carlos Valderrama
55. Hideki Matsui

Almost all hockey.

1 - Vesa Toskala
3 - Douglas Murray
4- Rob Blake
7 - Boomer Esiason
8 - Alex Ovechkin
9 - Mike Modono
10 - Christian Erhoff
11 - Owen Nolan
13 - Dan Marino
14 - Jonathan Cheechoo
15 - Dany Heatley
16 - Pat Lafontaine
17 - Brett Hull
18 - Matt Carle
19 - Joe Sakic
20 - Evgeni Nabokov
21 - Peter Fosberg
22 - Scott Hannan
23 - Niko Dimitrakos (why the hell?)
29 - Ryane Clowe
33 - Patrick Roy
39 - Logan Couture
44 - Chris Pronger
51 - Brian Campbell
55 - Sergei Gonchar
61 - Rick Nash
66 - Mario Lemieux
68 - Jaromir Jagr
71 - Evgeni Malkin
87 - Sidney Crosby
88 - Eric Lindros
89 - Alexander Mogilny
91 - Sergei Fedorov
93 - Doug Gilmour
99 - Brent Gretzky's brother

I'll always associate the number 7 with Beckham.

9 - Alan Shearer. Anyone else is incorrect.

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i love philadelphia sports so i would like to start a thread about our sports heritage

(btw, any post with "carlos ruiz is always #51 in my heart" is gay and retarded)

and keith primeau sucks

19- Steve Yzerman (there is no other 19)

Bryan Trottier was a pretty good #19. 6 cups, 1,400+ points, sound defensively (his ± was +452), and tough as nails.

00?

Because I said this

Yeah he was.

#5 Reggie Bush
#52 Ray Lewis
#20 Ed Reed
#3 Carson Palmer
#7 Matt Barkley
#8,#24 Kobe Bryant

51 Randy Johnson
21 Roger Clemens
35 Justin Verlander
55 Lincecum
19 Yzerman
91 Federov (just because it is Yzerman's inverse)

Robert Parish, obv.

Yeah Beckham always wore 7. 7 is the sort of playmaker's jersey number and at Man Utd he was always 7. When he went to Madrid it wasn't available so he switched to another number, and then when he came to the Galaxy 7 wasn't available either, so he went with the next high profile number (or the most high profile number in the US) which is 23. Although obviously Elmo was trolling with that post.

fuck Elmo

Haven't found a better 15 yet so gg Brandon Inge.

6 adam morrison

i don't watch any sports anymore but even i associate 23 with michael jordan
had the dude's trading card back in the day
do they still make athlete trading cards?

yeah but that market has apparently been dead for years. i have probably 100k+ baseball cards that are now supposedly worthless for the most part.

Actually, you can argue that he isn't even the best #19 of his generation. Joe Sakic, anyone?

Anyway, off the top of my head:

4. Bobby Orr
9. Maurice Richard
10. Guy Lafleur
11. Daniel Alfredsson/Mark Messier
12. Jim Kelly
13. Mats Sundin
18. Peyton Manning
23. Michael Jordan
30. Martin Brodeur
33. Patrick Roy
34. Paul Pierce
39. Dominik Hasek
47. Andre Kirilenko (sp?)
57. Steve Heinz
66. Mario Lemieux
77. Ray Bourque
87. Sidney Crosby
88. Eric Lindros
99. Wayne Gretzky

Double zero still makes me think Greg Ostertag, which then makes me think of oysters. When I was a kid I always thought the two zeros were like two big oysters, and they also reminded me of the goofy Kareem-style goggles that dude wore.

Anybody who associates number 23 with anybody that is not MJ is fucking nuts.

We can't ignore the services and performance of the David Akers..
I think person should be player of the 2011.

1, 3 - Props
2 - Hooker
4, 5 - Locks
6, 7 - Flankers
8 - Eight Man (duh)
9 - Scrum Half
10 - Fly Half
11, 14 - Wings
12, 13 - Centers
15 - Fullback

14 - Chicharito

10 - Maradona
7 - Raúl
9 - Batistuta
5 - Redondo

As a San Diego native it's difficult to associate 19 with anyone other than Tony Gwynn.

31 - Mike Piazza

13 - Marino
23 - Jordan


lol