Until you get 100 plus years into franchise history and you start running out of numbers. The Celtics have retired 24 jerseys! About to be 26 when Brown and Tatum retire.

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it's one thing to have a special number you earn but just giving some random kid your number, I wouldn't do it.

Retiring numbers is silly, though.

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"It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller's and Noem's dirty lies."

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Make the number important.

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Steve Spurrier announced that he has un-retired his number along with linebacker Scott Brantley’s No. 55, which had been retired during the 1979 season. Outside linebacker Ben Hanks, a promising redshirt sophomore from Miami, will wear Spurrier’s old number.

Spurrier said he has never liked retiring numbers: “There have been so many great players here that it’s not fair to pick one over the other.” Hanks approached Spurrier about changing from 13 to 11 in the spring, not realizing that Spurrier had worn 11.

Spurrier met with school officials about reinstating the number. He then called Brantley, the only other UF player to have a number retired, and asked if Brantley would like see a No. 55 back on the field. Brantley said sure. So Spurrier made Hanks 11.

“I’m happy to see him wearing the number,” Spurrier said. “Ben Hanks has been a model citizen since he’s been at Florida.”

Isn’t very practical. Honoring a player with a school hall of fame or ring of honor is great. But taking a number out of circulation is a bit much in my opinion. There’s already guys with duplicate numbers on a team nowadays.

I hear you're moving real fine.