[ChuckElias]

I have often wondered why tights are prohibited anyway. A team could wear long pants and that would be legal. You could even wear tights under long pants (as many referees do) and that would probably be legal. (Even if it technically would be illegal, how would anybody know?) But if you wear shorts, then the tights are illegal. This just doesn't make much sense to me.

Add to that Tom's point that there's no prohibition on the height of socks. A player could wear socks that extend so high that they end under the shorts and that would be legal. But if the tights extend down, that's illegal. Silly distinction, IMHO.