OT Who wears short-shorts?

[Rastapopoulos]

It's funny: basketball shirts have gone super-tight (particularly in college), and NBA players in droves are showing up at fashion shows and wearing ridiculously metrosexual outfits all over the place... but the shorts are still super baggy, as they have been since the '90s. You'd think by now SOMEbody would've bucked the trend and gone back to shorty-shorts. Rodman's the only one who came remotely close in my memory (apart from John Stockton, who just never changed from what the shorts were like for him as a rookie - but then he never changed anything, including his haircut). So - who's the player with the shortest shorts? Who's ready to go back to the glory days of skimpy ball-huggers?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I remember a couple of years ago the Lakers had a "throwback" night and came out in short-shorts... but then felt so unmanned they all changed at half-time. Wusses.

 

[Reep]

It does crack me up because it is such a fashion issue. Look at track athletes and long distance racers. Very short shorts or tights. Because they are more efficient.

The long shorts are just more material to lug around, keep you from cooling and absorb sweat.

I cannot see them going to back to short shorts, but could see at some point them going for the fitness shorts/tights look.

It would make a lot more sense than the tight sleeved shirts.

 

[Reep]

The men who killed short shorts forever:

 

[Reep]

And this blast from the past:

I think Kiki actually had his shortened.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Lets just be thankful they weren't ever this short...

 

[VanillaGorilla]

 

[Rastapopoulos]

REAL men just wear briefs:

 

[audienorris]

anybody interested in getting in kiki's pants?

 

[Orion Bailey]

anybody interested in getting in kiki's pants?View attachment 5898

After the group photo from above? No thanks....

 

[BBert]

Those short shorts won't be back. I'd much prefer a happy medium than the giant clown shorts they sell now. Same for swim trunks. I'm not advocating for speedos (although I do look fabulous), just something that fits and doesn't weigh a ton when full of water.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[DUB]

So - who's the player with the shortest shorts? Who's ready to go back to the glory days of skimpy ball-huggers?

Pat Stacks

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I will still never understand how there wasn't many if any malfunctions with short shorts back in the day. For fucks sake I can't wear boxers without something dangling out.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

That reminds me: I have to get my camel a pedicure.

 

[drexlersdad]

i remember when the lakers wore theirs for a half, all of them have those compression shorts underneath now, so those were sticking out and it looked rediculous

 

[drexlersdad]

I will still never understand how there wasn't many if any malfunctions with short shorts back in the day. For fucks sake I can't wear boxers without something dangling out.

im assuming most of them wore underwear, or some sort of nut hugging ball receptacle.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

im assuming most of them wore underwear, or some sort of nut hugging ball receptacle.

Jockstraps.

 

[jlprk]

Wow. This generation doesn't know about jock straps. Do you guys know about salt pills?

In the sexual revolution of the 60s-70s, the thing was, be free. At the very minimum, have a moustache. Then in came Reagan, the tough guys from Mexico/the ghetto were annointed U.S. Style Captains, and the leading movie actors were no longer chosen for their looks.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I've never once had to wear a jockstrap.. We had compression shorts/underwear.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I've never once had to wear a jockstrap.. We had compression shorts/underwear.

Men were men in jlprk's day. Big. Needed the heavy-duty stuff.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Jalen Rose talked about people rebelling against the Fab 5 for their superlong baggy shorts. They had a thug image, and the shorts exacerbated that. If you get a chance watch the Fab 5 documentary sometime (the Bad Boys Pistons one is really good, too).

 

[Blazers Roy]

Men have ugly legs and ugly bodies. Why on earth would you like to see more men wearing booty shorts?

 

[riverman]

Wow. This generation doesn't know about jock straps. Do you guys know about salt pills?

In the sexual revolution of the 60s-70s, the thing was, be free. At the very minimum, have a moustache. Then in came Reagan, the tough guys from Mexico/the ghetto were annointed U.S. Style Captains, and the leading movie actors were no longer chosen for their looks.

Also Converse All Stars padded with double socks...knee socks. They are too young to remember the jock strap which was guilty of exposing a nut sack once in awhile, so eventually replaced.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Ah the memories of another era. Jock straps were the perfect receptacle for the old analgesic Atomic Balm. Load up some unsuspecting nerds jock and then goad the PE coach into sending everyone on a cross country run. The fastest guy by far was Mr. Atomic Balm.....if he wasn't lying on the shoulder of the road holding himself and screaming for his mother.....

 

[riverman]

Men were men in jlprk's day. Big. Needed the heavy-duty stuff.

and no pubic hair unless you were completely frozen in place

 

[riverman]

The guy on the left in yellow is really creeping me out

 

[jlprk]

I've never once had to wear a jockstrap.. We had compression shorts/underwear.

I honestly didn't know that jock straps are gone.

There's something wrong with Denny's board if this has never been mentioned. I come here to impart my pearls of wisdom, and in theory to learn, though there's nothing left for me to learn, and now I find that the ONE particle of data I didn't know was DENIED me.

The death of jock straps deserves not only its own thread. It deserves its own fucking message board. This is a travesty. Who lost jock straps? The same State Dept. bozos who lost China? Jock straps died with a whimper, not a bang? I have read the news every fucking day since 1960 and I didn't know. Imagine what poor people in India know. They know nothing compared to spoiled Americans. If I didn't know, how the fuck can they know?

 

[jlprk]

Does Denny's liability insurance cover this? I could have embarrassed myself, if I'd referred to jock straps as if they still exist. If I had, I would have sued his ass for embarrassing me. A message board owner has an obligation to keep his slave posters attuned to current trends, lest they embarrass themselves. In France, dignity is considered a right. Denny is lucky he's not in France. I'd say, "Au revoir, le punke! Au contraire, Mademoiselle! Le coupe de gras et un Corvette du LeMans! Cracher dans la soupe!