Hakeem Nicks will wear #14 [Merge]

[Dustin]

Lol Didn't the Raiders "retire" Jamarcuss Russell's #2 for a few years? 

[trueblueblood]

Yeah good thing you put that guy in his place. He really blew up there lol

Can't tell if serious.........

[Dark_Indy]

Retired jerseys should be used for transcendent players. That's Unitas and Manning. Marvin falls into the same category as John Mackey; Great and HOFer, not transcendent.

 

I don't know though.

 

I mean, we're talking Marvin Harrison AND John Mackey

 

88 can be retired. What other Colts numbers are retired?

[Dark Superman]

Funny.. I had visions of a Eric Decker wearing 14 for us, lol.

[Dark Superman]

Did he choose 14?

Or was it assigned to him?

[Jason_]

I agree, yet this is our list of retired numbers....

 

18 - Manning

19 - Unitas

22 - Buddy Young

24 - Lenny Moore

70 - Art Donovan

77 - Jim Parker

82 - Raymond Berry

89 - Gino Marchetti

 

That's a lot of numbers retired, and all but Peyton played for Baltimore. Buddy Young played for 3 years with the Colts. They were all good players, but I wouldn't consider any of them transcendent. Throw in Marvin's number and Reggie's in a couple years, and people are going to have to wear decimals.

 

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I don't know though.

 

I mean, we're talking Marvin Harrison AND John Mackey

 

88 can be retired. What other Colts numbers are retired?

[BlueShoe]

 

It is possible that he chose 14 because he was born on January 14th. 

[BlueShoe]

Did he choose 14?

Or was it assigned to him?

 

My guess is he chose it, because he was born on January 14th.

[Dark Superman]

My guess is he chose it, because he was born on January 14th.

Hopefully he scores 14 TD's

[King Colt]

He will wear #14 as suggested by his daughter and he was born on the 14th. Nice respect to Mr.Harrison. Now we have two NY Giants that could get us real close to the big dance. 

[IndyD4U]

You're a week or two late,but welcome to the party!

[The Sleeze]

#12(luck) + #13(Hilton) + #14(nicks) + #15(brazill) + 16(rogers) +#17(Whalen) = #87(Wayne)

[ColtsBlueFL]

#12(luck) + #13(Hilton) + #14(nicks) + #15(brazill) + 16(rogers) +#17(Whalen) = #87(Wayne)

  

[lollygagger8]

#12(luck) + #13(Hilton) + #14(nicks) + #15(brazill) + 16(rogers) +#17(Whalen) = #87(Wayne)

[Luck_Is_Skilled]

Your man looks like he bout to cry! XD

[Blueblazes]

Yes, despite many teams having many deserving players to have their numbers retired, the NFL started heavily discouraging the practice of retiring numbers back in the 80s. They were afraid teams would eventually run out of available numbers at the skill/talent/whatever positions. Also, Mackey's was not retired because of political reasons. He was the first "president" of the players union that started bucking the system. Certainly Marvin, Mackey, Peyton eventually deserve numbers being retired, but very, very few teams are ''allowed'' to do this now.

[Poster X]

Perfectly good number. I never understood why the NFL wouldn't let guys wear unusual numbers like a runningback with one in single digits...

I always thought receivers wearing numbers outside of the 80's was cool.