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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4253119, member: 591"] Just to be clear. Yankee fan. No names. Rutgers fan. No names (for the women, don't know about the men). Many teams, no names. Volleyball fan, most if not all volleyball unis do not have names. It does not, however, somehow equate to a superior moral position - "the name on the front is the only one that matters"; "we are a team", etc. which becomes, "they are playing for the name on the back" and worse in some folks eyes. I have heard it said. Even by an insufferable Rutgers fan about a Tennessee star, Catchings I think. It is a choice. Many a team has played very well, and not for individual glory, and had their names on the back of their jersey. I don't really mind it, because I watch a lot of basketball and I don't do well with knowing who players are (on Rutgers, because I only saw them on TV and on random teams I only see a couple of times, I do know my Arizona Wildcats, don't even need the number). So I have often found myself peeking for the name, or, in the arena, constantly checking who opponents players are on the printed roster. UConn, incidentally, is a bit of a special case as most of your players are recognizable because they are well marketed and / or star players that get named frequently on a broadcast. The same applies to many All Americans like Clark and Boston and such, but don't ask me to identify their team-mates without a roster or name on the jersey. [/QUOTE]