Pregame festivities

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Kansas Ref

lso, does the "speaking captain" [if you can remember the jersey numbers of them] have any rights that are above that of the regular players?

No. But, it is the player to whom I will go first if I need to address something about another player.

And, in my experience, if you use the captain's first name, then every other player thinks you know all the first names, and the behavior improves when they think you know them as a person and not just as a uniform number.