our jersey number policy...

Originally posted by Gore_21:
Ideally we could retire 52, 21, 97, 94 but with only 99 numbers and us having the 3rd most retired at 9 you will run out of numbers. You can't have 2 guys with the same number on the final roster. I don't even think it works if one is offense and one is defense. Preseason doesnt matter though. So yeah it would be nice to retire more numbers but you would run out. Especially because each position has a certain number range you can wear.

Originally posted by kazak13:

Originally posted by Gore_21:

Ideally we could retire 52, 21, 97, 94 but with only 99 numbers and us having the 3rd most retired at 9 you will run out of numbers. You can't have 2 guys with the same number on the final roster. I don't even think it works if one is offense and one is defense. Preseason doesnt matter though. So yeah it would be nice to retire more numbers but you would run out. Especially because each position has a certain number range you can wear.

why retire numbers? i mean wouldn't seeing someone wearing 97 make u think of BY? or 21 of Gore down the road.. lets say Tartt wears 42... everytime he makes a big play, people be like, wow thats like Ronnie.. in soccer teams don't retire numbers and all sort of superstars play with those numbers.. in the end is just a number..

Originally posted by Niners99:
The whole point is to honor the player by saying "you were so great, nobody else should ever wear your number".

We had this debate before. You only need to use 53 numbers at once. You could technically retire 46 numbers and still have room. It would take over 120 years for us to retire enough numbers to run into problems. There is no legit "were running out of numbers" argument.