I played high school soccer for junior and senior year, on a team that had finally broken a 55 game losing streak the year before I entered this school as a sophomore. We were 1–7, one win, seven losses both years. We almost maintained the long-standing tradition of losing every game.
This was in the mid-60’s when soccer was not popular and regarded as a foreigner’s sport by most of the game-watching public.
This team had a tradition, obviously not followed for about seven years, of wearing the green and gold striped jersey to class the day after a win. We were not deterred by the fact a)the damn Jerseys had mud and dirt and sweat on them and b) nobody had any clue why we were wearing soccer jerseys to class.
We got a lot of stares one day every fall in junior and senior year.
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