TO THE EDITOR:
We’re all overcome by March Madness, but sometimes it’s necessary to inject a bit of reason into the madness. This is a perfect time to bring up a certain basketball-related absurdity: the length of our players’ shorts. The baggy, knee-length apparel worn by Roy’s boys and players nationwide bears little resemblance to anything that could rationally be termed “shorts.”
Historic montages honoring the glory of Carolina players of the ’80s and before brought to us snippets of the good old days of shorter, tighter shorts. Not only would shorter shorts display the ample thigh muscles our Tar Heels have worked so hard to build and tone, they would also allow for more agile, freer motion, giving us an advantage against our sagging opponents.
Additionally, bringing back the short shorts would provide a valuable statement on gender equality — men, too, deserve ample opportunity to be ogled by members of both sexes — and would pay homage to Carolina basketball history. If tiny blue shorts were good enough for Michael, they should be good enough for us. That’s the long and short (mostly short) of it.
Erin Becker
Senior
English
Anasa Hicks
Senior
