1.   Even the championship banners and retired jerseys hanging high above the Staples Center floor were fresh-off-the-sewing-machine new.

2.   First retired jersey in school history.

3.   He drives by his own statue on the way to work, and plays beneath his retired jersey, like some fable come to life.

4.   High school kids want to know more about television exposures than retired jerseys that hang from the rafters.

5.   Like most of those with retired jerseys, McHale left the organization to continue his career in basketball.

6.   Like retired jerseys of hall-of-fame athletes, the names of infamous hurricanes are removed from storm lists.

7.   One, located underneath the retired jerseys of former Los Angeles Lakers greats, has the names of the six Minneapolis Lakers in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

8.   Who really knows, but why waste a perfectly good opportunity to program a retired jersey party, the ostentatious bar mitzvah of American sports?

9.   For example, on the recently retired U.S. jerseys, the broad stripes that ringed the shirt horizontally made it difficult to identify the numbers.

10.   During the ceremony, Vikings owner Red McCombs presented Kelci with the retired jersey.