Line #49 Main/CasualSportsJersey


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11	[[quoteright:338:[[Series/FatherTed https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hqdefault10.jpg]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:338:Don't ''you'' sleep with your favourite player on your back?]]
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14	With a LimitedWardrobe in many media universes, characters wear unique clothing to stand out to the audience. In the case of this character, why would they consider wearing casual clothes like everyone else when you could wear a sports jersey?
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16	This style can be worn by passionate sports fanatics of either a popular team, or a team that they play on themselves; the JerkJock might sometimes wear his jersey as a CustomUniform at school, and in some cases if a character used to play sports in school, wearing their old school jersey may be a sign that they are [[GloryDays holding on to past glories]], or that their whole identity is tied to their time as a varsity athlete.
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18	In Japanese media, people wear sportswear-like clothing as loungewear that they nickname a "jersey", which has very negative connotations, implying that said character is lazy. It's sometimes the wearer's intention to invoke this for ObfuscatingStupidity in case they do dangerous activities, such as fighting villains.
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20	See also SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack, which is arguably the same type of trope, but with school uniforms instead.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* Toji from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is often seen in a tracksuit and jogging pants during school (the only time he doesn't is in the ninth episode). This is probably one of the reasons why he is always getting under the skin of the ClassRepresentative Hikari (other than her infatuation with him).
29	* Yato, from ''Manga/{{Noragami}}'' is a God of Calamity and known for wearing the same sportswear outfit every day all the time. He insists it's cool but both his [[EquippableAlly Exemplar]], Yukine, and human acquaintance Hiyori call him out on it regularly, calling him lazy and gross, as if he never washes it. Possibly justified in that he does go around fighting and killing phantoms -- the embodiments of human's negative thoughts, and doing other odd jobs, trying to save up for a temple of his own.
30	* Casey from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' is a huge fan of the Electabuzz baseball team. She constantly wears the team's jersey and baseball cap.
31	* Ryoma from ''Anime/ThePrinceOfTennis'' occasionally wears his tennis club uniform outside of his training classes and matches, but he is almost never seen without his team's cap, unless he is going to school.
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34	[[folder:Comic Books]]
35	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Moose Mason is a multi-sport athlete for Riverdale High. However, being a DumbMuscle character, Moose is rarely seen without a numbered jersey and track pants.
36	* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': In the GI Joe franchise, Bazooka stretched even the Joe's Custom Uniform policy by wearing a sports jersey instead of anything even vaguely resembling a military uniform; specifically a New England Patriots fotball jersey bearing the number of former player Steve Grogan. In the [[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW IDW comic series]], when he is killed in action, the Joes hang his trademark jersey on the wall of their HQ as a mark of respect.
37	* ''ComicBook/WildDog'': Wild Dog wears a college football jersey emblazoned with a snarling red dog as part of his costume, which hides his protective body armor.
38	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
39	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Golden Age most of the Holliday Girls wore Holliday College jerseys near constantly, and Etta Candy in particular paired hers with shorts--rather scandalous everyday wear for a young woman in the 1940s--while most of the other gals wore skirts.
40	** In the Silver Age the much smaller group of Holliday Girls mostly wore sweaters that were knitted with a large H like jerseys instead.
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43	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
44	* In the early years of ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', B.D. (the university quarterback) played with this trope, wearing his football helmet everywhere, all the time; even instead of an army helmet while he was in the Army serving combat duty in Cambodia.
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47	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
48	* The Monstars from ''Film/SpaceJam'' all wear basketball jerseys with the number zero. Curiously, they received these uniforms when absorbing the LiquidAssets of five [=NBA=] players, but retained the jerseys after forfeiting their powers. For the climatic basketball scenes, their uniform was different. Averted with the Characters/LooneyTunes characters, who only wore athletic wear during the Ultimate Game.
49	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Tyler usually wears a purple basketball jersey matching the number and colour scheme of Vince Carter at the time.
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52	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
53	* Although Monty from ''Film/BrewstersMillions1985'' is a baseball player, when he is due to meet with the lawyers that control his deceased relative's inheritance in their boardroom, he wears his jersey and his cap.
54	* Cameron wears a Gordie Howe Detroit Red Wings jersey throughout ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''. Considered as {{iconic\|outfit}} as Ferris' patterned jacket. [[WordOfSaintPaul Alan Ruck]] said the reason Cameron doesn't wear a Chicago Blackhawks jersey is because Cameron's grandfather in Detroit used to take him to Red Wings games.
55	* Nobby in ''Film/{{Grimsby}}'' wears the football/soccer jersey of his favourite Grimbsy FC (and England striker) player throughout the movie.
56	* In the French film series ''Film/{{Taxi}}'', Marseille-based BadassDriver protagonist Daniel Morales (Creator/SamyNaceri) often wears UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball jerseys. In ''Taxi 2'' (released in 2000), it's that of the French national team, the #10 of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane Zinedine Zidane]] more precisely. That player is regarded as one of the greatest the sport has ever known, he was the local pride of Marseille (as well as the nation's) and was a major factor in the French victory at the 1998 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]]. Daniel also wears Olympique de Marseille jerseys, naturally -- that team is the very definition of SeriousBusiness in RealLife in and around the city.
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59	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
60	* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Leonard wears a jersey to Penny's football party to try and fit in. However, the only one he could find is a few sizes too big, and the only ones smaller were for dogs. Sheldon notes that it's more of a football gown.
61	* Father Dougal (page image) in ''Series/FatherTed'' often wears a soccer jersey for pyjamas, emphasizing his characterization as an eccentric {{manchild}}.
62	* The members of the William [=McKinley=] High School [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football]] team in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' are almost never seen outside of their practice and matches without the preppy varsity jackets of the team. This is probably to avoid being the targets of their own group's bullying antics, which involves throwing drinks at nerds, shoving people into lockers, or any other methods of abuse. It's notable that even though Finn and Puck are star players on the team, after joining the glee club, they slowly start to shed from the preppy jackets, until they never wear them again by the senior year (third season).
63	** There's also the cheerleading team, the Cheerios, who are required by Coach Sue Sylvester to wear their uniforms around the school at all times in order to impose dominance over the rest of the student body.
64	* On ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', Barry is seldom seen without his Philadelphia Flyers jersey, which he nicknames "Big Orange".
65	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Al combines this with GloryDays. He is frequently seen in the Polk High Panthers football jersey he wore when he scored four touchdowns in the 1966 Chicago City Championship.
66	* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': In "Animal Frat" Sam leaps into a college BigManOnCampus who always wears a Chicago Bears 51 jersey (Dick Butkus).
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69	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
70	* During the DX Army phase of Wrestling/DGenerationX, multiple members of the group wore customized DX football jerseys. In their typically juvenile fashion, the jerseys said "Suck It" on the front and listed "69" as the number on the back.
71	* Wrestling/JohnCena, a passionate sports fan and memorabilia collector in real life, wore an UnlimitedWardrobe of jerseys as part of his [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Doctor of Thuganomics]] persona. He wore a different one every week, usually according to where the show was, and in keeping with hip-hop fashion at the time, many of them were throwbacks.
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74	[[folder:Video Games]]
75	* ''VideoGame/FarCry2''. Frank Bilders wears a Tyrone county GAA jersey.
76	* Played for Horror in ''VideoGame/LisaThePointless'' with the Infinity Franchise. The creator of the Infinity Jerseys (a red basketball jersey with green stripes and a green [[green: 88]] on it), Kung Company, was supposed to release these jerseys as expected from their knockoffs of King Corporation's other products... Except that there was ''no'' sportswear line from King Corporation, meaning that Kung accidentally released ''an original product''. As a result, [[AfterTheEnd After the Flash]], once these jerseys were dug up, some kind of supernatural force engulfed both them and their wearers, causing the wearers to go AxCrazy as a result.
77	* While his dream world self is in nightwear like everyone else, Kel in the real world of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' wears his basketball jersey constantly.
78	* Daisuke Nagase in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' is never seen wearing anything but his gym uniform.
79	* The "Sporty" style for the [[GangBangers 3rd Street Saints]] in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' consists almost entirely of sportswear.
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82	[[folder:Web Animation]]
83	* ''WebAnimation/EddieAtTheLMV'': Eddie wears a #9 O'Reilly soccer jersey all the time, leading to a RunningGag of speculations about whether he's ever washed it.
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86	[[folder:Webcomics]]
87	* Baek Seungchul from ''Webcomic/TheGodOfHighSchool'' is an eccentric badass genius who carries around a baseball bat, which he uses to beat up criminals or people who pick fights with him. He is solely seen wearing red athletic jerseys, even in school, which just adds to his weirdness.
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90	[[folder:Web Videos]]
91	* Kiryu Coco of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' is noted by her fellow idols to be wearing nothing but Adidas tracksuits (and products) in real life. This eventually led her to acquire a new casual outfit for her [=Live2D=] model, one with a jersey. Her room mate, Amane Kanata, who is notorious for having bad fashion sense, saw an improvement when she adopted the same style.
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94	[[folder:Western Animation]]
95	* Kevin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' wears his [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football]] uniform all the time, even outside of football practice.
96	* The titular group superheroines in ''WesternAnimation/GrooveSquad'' are only seen in three outfits throughout the entire movie: their cheerleading uniforms, their supersuits in the superhero-forms and the dresses they wear to their HighSchoolDance at the end of the movie.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
98	** In the latter half of season 2B, Luz starts wearing Eda's old varsity grudgby jacket over her usual outfit. No actual reason for it is given, though the the implication is that it's simply getting colder out and Eda thought that Luz would prefer having something passed down to her than a brand new jacket.
99	** Played for Drama in "Labyrinth Runners". [[spoiler:After learning the truth about his origins and running away from Belos, Hunter ditches his Golden Guard outfit and is shown wearing his Flyer Derby uniform (along with a ragged cloak that he probably found in the garbage somewhere) because it's the only other outfit he has. Fortunately, his next appearance in "Clouds on the Horizon" shows him cleaned up with a much more casual outfit.]]
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102	[[folder:Real Life]]
103	* Creator/KevinSmith is often seen wearing a hockey jersey. Sometimes it's an actual New Jersey Devils jersey; other times it shares the same color scheme and layout, but has a different logo.
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