<p>OK, the Yale Bookstore is out of baseball caps. Has this thread caused everyone to run out and purchase HYPwear?</p>
<p>I read only the first few posts on this thread. Full disclosure: I always wear the t-shirt/sweatshirt/etc. on game days, but my son is on the team so that is okay, right?? (Having become old and gray, I must admit I feel a bit foolish in college gear but I do it anyway, superstition, karma and all…) It is also my alma mater but I’m not wearing it for that reason and I don’t wear it on non-game days.</p>
<p>I thought of this thread today when I saw a nicely-dressed young man heading to an expensive car in the bank parking lot with a vanity plate that said it all: DUKE MBA. Guess maybe he doesn’t need a t-shirt!</p>
<p>The previous post made me wonder if the OP dislikes vanity license plates bearing school names, too. I saw a GO USC vanity plate today.</p>
<p>One of my coworkers dresses his little baby girl into everything pink with Duke logo on it. He is very proud of them both - his alma mater and his kid!</p>
<p>Other coworkers have an ongoing USC - Huskies feud, so I see a lot of logo clothing on game days.</p>
<p>Re: tsdad’s post…A year ago, I was with a mom at a sporting event. I knew her older son was a college freshman but I didn’t know where and very nicely asked. She replied, “Up in New Hampshire.” She didn’t elaborate and I didn’t pursue it. For all I know, the kid could have been in a correctional facility. Well, she started to get a little agitated. I didn’t know what was going on. In retrospect, I know she wanted me to pursue the question but at the time, I though she was getting uncomfortable. When the race began and everyone was screaming and shouting, she obviously couldn’t take it anymore and shouted at me, It’s DARTMOUTH! HE’S GOING TO DARTMOUTH!!</p>
<p>So how about school flags? My neighbor likes to fly a ND flag on football weekends. Of course, we’re now big fans of our son’s Big Ten team (a ND opponent at times) so we got a flag and fly it proudly on football weekends. We’re good long-term neighbors so it’s just a friendly competition. Now that I think about it, the ND flag wasn’t out much this year…</p>
<p>I remember hearing a joke a few years ago about two society matrons discussing their college-aged kids. One was asked where her S went to school. She said, “Oh, in New England.” The other replied, “Really! So is mine. What house is he in?”</p>
<p>TR–we have friends a couple blocks away who are big ND fans. We, of course, are big UMich fans, so for years, after the Game, the losing H left a sixpack of Guinness on the winning H’s front porch. (This was after a couple of years of, um, decorating, the front lawn of the losing house, which was deemed a bit uncivilized by respective spouses.)</p>
<p>18 years ago, an older secretary who worked in my office told me that since I stayed in shape and looked good, I should wear understated ties and suits, because I didn’t need to distract people with clothing. </p>
<p>18 years later, this thread is making me think that maybe I should start wearing apparel from a couple of the better schools I have attended to distract people from the fact that I am fast becoming a balding old fart.</p>
<p>Doesn’t have to be from a “better” school. Even a Nascar cap will hide the baldness.</p>
<p>Living in a university town everyone wears college stuff. I believe that there is a positive correlation between how many kids are wearing logo apparel on campus and how much the students like their school. With all due respect to the other UW campuses and the privates it seems to me that in this state everyone thinks they’re a Badger.</p>
<p>You couldn’t find Rutgers stuff around here until the football team started getting attention. Now it’s sold at Kohls & Sports AUthority right next to Notre Dame & Michigan gear. Even Seton Hall gear is available, which leads me to believe that the retailers are meeting an incresed demand for college gear. It could also be part of the “slobification of America,” as Tim Gunn would say. I’m almost 50, and I have no problem running to the supermarket in a college sweatshirt. My mother would NEVER have left the house in such a casual getup. Certainly not in any piece of clothing with ANYTHING written on it.</p>
<p>Yeah…we’re three hours away from the official college town and everyone seems to be a nittany lion around here. The paws are everywhere! People name their dogs “Joe” or “nittany.” Toddler rooms are decked out in blue and white. These kids (and the alumni) LOVE their school. I can’t relate…went to a SUNY…NO ONE wore shirts. Awful fball and bball teams. That’s why I taken to adopting my son’s school…never felt that kinda pride before. So much fun to actually root for a team! Even go to some of the games…pretty cool.</p>
<p>I live in a college town, and alums, alums of other colleges, people who never went to college, children, even animals wear the T-shirts, caps, etc. Great for player morale, and most of these fans genuinely follow the teams. I see nothing wrong with supporting our colleges. Does the ‘anti’ follow that they should not watch the games on TV, buy the tickets and sit in the stands? This support brings in a lot of money for the schools.</p>
<p>The only college sweatshirt H ever wears ( or owns) is one from WSU ( washington state university) He didn’t attend, but he is a Cougar football fan.
D’s college didn’t even * have* football ;)</p>
<p>We have an “interesting” neighbor- and everyday he has on a different sweatshirt- think people give them to him, he is a big garage sale nut, anyway, he wears, middle grad sweatshirts, navy tshirts, marine, google, college, whatever sutis his fancy</p>
<p>I personally would never ask someone about their sweatshirt- ie if they went to college their or whatever…I wound;'t make any assumptions in any direction regarding someone’s chose of sweatshirt</p>
<p>My D got rejected from NYU- but still wears the sweatshirt, why not? Of the 2 people that ever asked her about it- oh you go to NYU, she responed…nope…jsut like the sweatshirt-</p>
<p>My H proudly wears his “University of Denver Dad” sweatshirt. DS#2 gave it to him by way of announcing his college choice. H really misses his football buddy and wearing the sweatshirt helps. Here in Buckeyeland there aren’t too many DU parents so it gets comments.</p>
<p>emeraldkity,
the only college sweatshirt MY H owns is a UW one our S gave him. He bravely wears it too, here in Coug country. I usually chicken out , wear mine only when visiting S in Seattle. :)</p>
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<p>I recall seeing a photo of Bill Clinton back in the day wearing a cardinal red shirt that said “Stanford Dad.”</p>
<p>Off topic, Stanford was a bit chilly to their First Child alumna the other day:</p>
<p>[Editorial:</a> Chelsea lacks class at exclusive event - The Stanford Daily Online](<a href=“http://stanforddaily.com/article/2008/1/16/editorialChelseaLacksClassAtExclusiveEvent]Editorial:”>http://stanforddaily.com/article/2008/1/16/editorialChelseaLacksClassAtExclusiveEvent)</p>