Any other old guys remember playing sports in jeans ?

I'm 59, and grew up in the Midwest. The only pants we ran around in and played in were jeans and sometimes cords. Outside of organized athletic events, you never saw anyone in training pants, wind pants or sweats.

I remember playing volleyball in jeans all the time. My boy Goose and I would hustle suckers all afternoon. You had to be at the top of your game when you were playing with the boys and jeans worked fine.

In "marathon man" billy Rodgers has a story of running a 20mile race in jeans

Old Dude #365 wrote:

I am 56 and grew up in a small town below the mason dixon line and remember playing baseball and basketball in jeans. Plenty of guys would wear baseball jersey and jeans. I was lifting with my son and asked him to do sprints with me. He was like "in jeans ?" I busted out about thirty 40 yard sprints in my jeans.

Humble rag, right?

--you busted out a 40 in 30 secs, right? Aight.

No way you ran 30, 40m sprints at 56.

You are nuts if you think a 56 year old can't do 40's. We do free weights in the garage and 40's from mailbox to mailbox. You stop when the other one say's "uncle". Get over your own weakness and think positive about yourself and maybe you'll stop hating on others.

I prefer hiking and cycling in jeans. I get them slim with a bit of stretch to them.

Almost 56 and a couple of years back I raced one of my 6th grade students for a few laps around the play ground in my dress shoes and slacks. Does that count? Also while in college used to play basketball in Memorial Gym (home of the '66 miners) in my jeans, that has to count.

Our regional XC champion did all his training in jeans and then ran 2:2x marathons after high school. This was only 10 years ago though, he was just weird.

Yep. Up until 8th grade every baseball team I played on, we just wore jeans and a Tshirt with our number on the front and "McNally Shell" or some such sponsor on the back.

Runrincerepeat wrote:

In "marathon man" billy Rodgers has a story of running a 20mile race in jeans

I was going to mention that and you beat me to it.

And I wear mom jeans...🙄Seriously aren't we dating ourselves?...lol

elviejo wrote:

Yep. Up until 8th grade every baseball team I played on, we just wore jeans and a Tshirt with our number on the front and "McNally Shell" or some such sponsor on the back.

Yep, played all sports, even hockey in jeans, or colloquially, "dungarees" even when the knees were blown out from tackle football or falling on pavement playing wiffleball.

See these hip celeb kids, like Kardashians in "ripped" jeans they pay over $100 for and have to laugh.

Argh! wrote:

Old Dude #365 wrote:

I am 56 and grew up in a small town below the mason dixon line and remember playing baseball and basketball in jeans. Plenty of guys would wear baseball jersey and jeans. I was lifting with my son and asked him to do sprints with me. He was like "in jeans ?" I busted out about thirty 40 yard sprints in my jeans.

Humble rag, right?

--you busted out a 40 in 30 secs, right? Aight.

No way you ran 30, 40m sprints at 56.

You must be one of those limp-wristed femme voiced SJW types or a millennial. You inherited and exaggerated the weaknesses of your bloated, out of shape parents who no doubt hoped you'd join the Peace Corps.

I would guess that the shift from briefs to boxers had something to do with the elimination of jeans as athletic apparel. I much prefer boxers, but it makes me uncomfortable just to think about doing anything remotely athletic on a hot day in boxers and jeans.

Anyway, even if playing sports in jeans isn't the worst thing in the world, there isn't often any reason to do so. Given the choice, why not just wear shorts?

Brett Favre plays football in his Wranglers now. They have U-shape construction.

Graduated high school in 1976, played every sport in season year round in the parks in jeans through high school, including basketball, tennis, and running. Cut-offs sometimes in the summer, but athletic shorts only happened when I was on an official team of some type.

elviejo wrote:

Yep. Up until 8th grade every baseball team I played on, we just wore jeans and a Tshirt with our number on the front and "McNally Shell" or some such sponsor on the back.

Yes, and ttoday half the boys in middle and high school go to class in gym shorts. WTF? In case a half-court basketball game suddenly breaks out? Shorts as school apparel wasn't a thing 30 years ago. In case you wonder why...

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Used to do this until I got a terrible case of jock itch...then back to warm-ups for me.