5. Not-So-Good Players
Getting the jersey of a bad player is always a bad call.
Unless it’s being worn ironically, having a not so good athlete’s name on your back is inexcusable. Every team has or has had somebody not entirely useless on their roster, so there’s no excuse. *disclaimer– I was at the Toronto Airport in 2018 and, after perusing a sport shop’s Blue Jays jersey section, found my potential purchasing options limited to a) Kevin Pillar, b) Aaron Sanchez and c) Robert Osuna, so the preceding sentence isn’t exactly 100% infallible*
Nevertheless, if your choice somehow happens to be down to Jeff Farkas, Luca Caputi and Jonas Frogren, maybe it’s best to re-think the whole jersey-buying thing.
If you think about it, there must be thousands of these jerseys out there, just for one player alone. Who amongst us doesn’t at least know one person who, when the Leafs went big in free agency several years ago, picked up a David Clarkson jersey before he’d ever played a game in T.O.
Looking the for the next Wendel Clark, the Leafs accidently signed someone to help the owners of Andrew Raycroft jerseys feel better about themselves. David Clarkson may be one of the biggest free agent busts in NHL history, but the Leafs sure sold a lot of jerseys on the way to making that happen.