NFHS doesn't specify about the shorts. As far as I know they can all be different colors. I don't like this, but I don't have rules support to rule differently.
However, when it comes to the jerseys, I believe that I do.
As for Chuck's pizza group, I respect their opinion. I just think that they had one too many pitchers while formulating it.
I believe that the clear intent of a "team" jersey is for all of them to be the same. That is the concept of a "team" anything.
I'm not advocating being overly strict on the enforcement of this, but to deny that according to the rules each team member is to wear the same color jersey is off base in my opinion.
Chuck, you'll have to check with you pizza buddies on this, but if we aren't going to require the shirts to be the some color, why even have team jerseys?
We could just allow the kids to show up in their favorite NBA throwback jersey. As long as all the kids from the home side have light colored ones (gold, white, silver, grey) and the visitors have dark (blue, green, red, black) everything should be great, right? Oh, wait, they have to make sure that each one has a different number.
