North Cedar’s ‘jersey girls’

STANWOOD - What is the new 'sporty” way of showing you are a couple and will be going to homecoming together?

Writing 'homecoming” on cars or on little slips of paper has become obsolete and flowers are a total cliché.

Girls are seen wearing their boyfriend's football jerseys, which seems to be the fashion statement for North Cedar on Mondays and Fridays. Mondays is the junior varsity team jerseys and Fridays is the varsity team jerseys. Football players will give a young woman his jersey and ask if she will wear it.

'We ask the girl that we want to wear our jersey in a text,” Nathan Owen said. 'For example, we say, ‘Do you want to wear my jersey?'”

There is a downside to this 'sporty” fall fashion. There is drama galore. If a boy gives his jersey to a different girl than the one who wanted his jersey, there will be plenty of jealousy and rivalry to come.

There always is an abundance of chatter and texting on game days about who is going with whom.