High School team disqualified for wearing pink uniform accents.

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A group of teenage basketball players thought they were instilling goodwill into the community when they decided to wear special pink accented uniforms in support of breast cancer awareness to a couple of their playoff games. The Narbonne High Gauchos in Harbor City, CA were instead slapped with a disqualification and bounced from the rest of post season on Monday for breaking a rule that prohibits teams from wearing any uniform colors but their official ones.

http://magazine.good.is/articles/narbonne-california-basketball-team-breast-cancer-awareness

Interstingly, the players are the bonafide team. If they say the team colors are pink, then who is to say otherwise? Administrators arenot the team. Other students are not the team. The tournament officials are not the team. Sounds like a bad rule with unfortunate consequences. This is like ruling on whether a team can wear a stripped band on a sock because it was not on the official uniform policy of a school. It is nonsensical in that the extra bands of color would not be banned if it were an off color t-shirt under the uniform outerwear. This obviously wasn't an away v. home issue. This is purely a political decision by somebody who thinks too little but thinks they have done a proper ruling. Very arbitrary ruling.
 




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