Before you understood what sports meant, you understood what it meant when a name was on a jersey. Names on jerseys mean something. They mean someone mattered enough to carry through space. To put on a scoreboard. To call out loud across a crowded stadium.
Terrel Peete wore No. 1 for Duchesne. And every time someone called out that number, they were calling his name. They just might not have known it then.
RMF puts names on cotton because jerseys expire. Seasons end. Numbers get retired. But cotton lasts longer than a season. And a name on cotton, worn daily, carried everywhere — that’s a different kind of permanent.
You already know which name you’d put on yours.