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Old Sun Dec 16, 2012, 04:53pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Adam View Post
Fairly or not, it always struck me as an attempt to be obvious about not talking about skin color, as I've only seen it used with black and white jerseys.
I have never heard that explanation to why guys say "shirt." Actually the people that do this are old timers mostly and I guess that is the way they used to say things and it never changed. Not sure it is that well thought out.

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