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Originally Posted by jeremy341a
No, truthfully. This whole thread wasn't my attempt at being argumentative but in an attempt to understand. I read this site to learn not argue and I attempt to see both sides of any discussion. I honestly thought that others would think that with the way the "sleeve" rule is worded that it could be construed that the undershirt long sleeves would have to match. Obviously I was wrong.
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Methinkis you are over thinking. As Mr. Rutledge noted, these rules came in over time as stuff developed. Back when i played anyone who
thought of puting on a t-shirt under a hoops uniform would be forever branded a hopeless wuss. Times change. (As I recall, Ewing had some reaction to the material in the shirts, and his cotton t-shirts were, at least initially, to create a barrier with the shirt.)
So rules got developed to govern t shirts and keep uniforms uniform, which have been tweaked over the years.
Later, more accessories developed, and rules developed to address those. When sleeves first were arriving, they didn't come in all colors of the rainbow, but NFHS wanted to regulate. (I suspect some of the impetus was to avoid the flourescent yellow sleeve on the star to make him easier to find, but that is pure supposition on my part.)
So
committees tried to write rules. And different conisderations drove addressing different issues, so we get different rules that use different language. And the olks who make the rules seem to have
some sympathy to not making people throw out stuff they arleady have. It takes time to coalesce rules to more consistency -- and all rule changes take someone caring enough to propose the change.
I really like Bob's simple home = white; away = black or predominant color -- which could unify everything. No one would ever have to buy more than two of anything.