Why not green socks and red socks instead of ankle bands? Or better yet, home and away singlets !
Why not socks?
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Do you want to wear green or red socks? The nerdiness of it alone would be enough to make kids quit.
How about white tube socks with two red or two green stripes?
If the spandex singlets didn’t make the kids quit, I can’t imagine something as insignificant as sock color would matter.
How many pairs of socks would Mark Hall have had to borrow for the Scuffle?
It would have taken longer for Jason Nolf to take his socks off and lay them neatly in the center of the mat after a match.
I vote red and green scarves. Wrestlers allowed to use them to help choke out their opponents. Might bring some additional excitement into the sport, eh?
That would be loads of fun during a tournament.
82bordouex is known to wear those when he takes his yacht the Minnow on Lake Erie.
Just wondering how red and green ankle bands were chosen, given that the prevalence of color blindness in men is approximately 5% to 8%.
"Color vision deficiency (sometimes called color blindness) represents a group of conditions that affect the perception of color. Red-green color vision defects are the most common form of color vision deficiency. Affected individuals have trouble distinguishing between some shades of red, yellow, and green." (medlineplus.gov)
"Color vision deficiency (sometimes called color blindness) represents a group of conditions that affect the perception of color. Red-green color vision defects are the most common form of color vision deficiency. Affected individuals have trouble distinguishing between some shades of red, yellow, and green." (medlineplus.gov)
COLOR blindness isn't what most people associate with refs.
I'm color blind and can only see about half of the numbers in the color dot circles they use to test for it. I have a red/green deficiency. I can easily distinguish the new safety yellow/green versus any color. Why not have one wrestler wear safety yellow/green anklets and assume the other guy is red without. It would be much easier, even for fans at a distance to know who's green and red. Just my 2 cents.
-- Different colored headgear
-- Colored wristbands
-- Different colored singlets
-- Colored socks (let's make someone wealthy, as anything done would surely include D2, D3, NAIA, JC, and probably more, year after year after year, AND cost wrestling programs already in the red more $$$'s)
-- Or we could stay with ankle bands
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-- Colored wristbands
-- Different colored singlets
-- Colored socks (let's make someone wealthy, as anything done would surely include D2, D3, NAIA, JC, and probably more, year after year after year, AND cost wrestling programs already in the red more $$$'s)
-- Or we could stay with ankle bands
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I'm going with the guy on the left. Clearly the more self-assured and confident. Fully open stance, hiding nothing, tighter shorts, direct eye contact, and that "you can't handle my gifs" smolder. Plus, he's wearing PSU blue. Clearly @82bordeaux is the guy on the left. Final answer.
@johnstownsteel, how did the ref differentiate the wrestlers in your uncle's basement?
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My wife thinks I'm already crazy for the amount of time I spend watching/reading about wrestling. If I told her I was on a thread talking about what color socks wrestlers should wear, I'm pretty sure she would send me to the nervous hospital !
Yeah, @jmadden1998 is on the right. Notice the elevated heel. That's the giveaway.
Mary Ann all the way.
Just looking out for a couple Hawks…do they make green and red compression socks?
Florida boat tan on the left, Iowa farmer tan on the right.
Why Not end this thread! looks like the type of thread that would be on HR! Sorry to be the old "get off my lawn" guy!
What do you do in a tournament when two green socks or two red socks wrestle each other?
It would definitely require multiple goes with each to make a fair determination.
Sounds like a Tom Ryan gimmick.
Start out as a Green Sock by default.
Hang around a while, become a Black Shirt.
Show some strength, graduate to Red Sock.
Pin a dude during a reasonably possible team championship run, get a Pin Chain.
No socks until the tanning regimen is complete. Socks must be earned!
