Why does devin hester get to wear 23

His tenure with the Bears were some of the most fun years in the history of the team. He was a member of the Chicago Bears from and he wore the great number While wearing that number, he became the greatest kick returner in the history of the National Football League.

The Bears ended up losing the big game but Hester was amazing and extremely exciting. In the weeks leading up to that Super Bowl, the Indianapolis Colts were back and forth in the media about whether or not they were going to kick to Hester. Not many return men in the history of the NFL have created that much fear in the eyes of their opponents.

Since , they gave 23 to Kyle Fuller who is a pretty good player, but the best player to wear 23 was Hester. Next 4 of 6 Prev. Next: Chicago Cubs. Howard, Cameron Brate.

More NFL Rumors ». View all NFL Sites. More NBA News ». More NBA Rumors ». View all NBA Sites. Mitchell, David MeggettD. Meggett, Devin HesterD. Hester, more rows. Due to the numbering of basketball jerseys for the Olympic games, Jordan was unable to wear his normal 23 jersey. Four current players wear numbers outside their primary position: Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley and Carolina Panthers tight end Jeff King wear number 47 and Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark wears number 44 despite in both cases having had an 80's number available and unlike the aforementioned Cushing neither play any other position.

Hester was allowed to keep 23 after the team converted him to wide receiver. Now I'm more curious about how Dallas Clark gets to wear The Saint Undrafted Free Agent.

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Reebock and the NFL are in on this together. If they switched his number now they would have to can all the 23 jerseys. Therefore he can wear his 23 as long as they want to make them. Taceo Saintastic. Joined Sep 1, Messages 6, Reaction score 2, Age Jeff Miller said:. I still have a Reggie Bush 5 Jersey. I may wear it this year instead of 25, but I don't want to get it confused with Hartley.

Joined May 8, Messages 32, Reaction score 30, Ten years ago anyone that made the final roster at WR had to give up their teens number and grab , now suddenly unless Arrington makes the cut none of our WRs will be in the 80s, only TEs.

Is there maybe anything to the fact that they like that not every good WR in the league wears 81? Some of them get to be 11? The NFL used to just be prudes about it. In fact, they made us unretire Atkins' 81 when we had too many WRs and were going to have Haynes wear a number in the teens.