it's all in the numbers

there's this whole article on the LA Times sports page about numbers. it's kinda cool. the NFL won't let Reggie Bush wear his beloved No. 5 because running backs must wear a number between 20 - 49. how retarded is that? so then he had to "buy" the number 25 from a teammate who has worn that number for 8 seasons. Reggie is donating 25% of the his jersey royalties to Hurricane Katrina victims and then half of those funds go to the charity of the other guy's choice. that was a nice exchange but apparently people have had to pay for family vacations, new kitchen sets or lump sums of $40,000. to have a certain number. that's crazy. talk about superstition. i didn't realize that all NHL clubs retired the number 99 for gretzky - all clubs - wow - what an honor! thus, mario lemiuex picked the number 66 because it's 99 backwards.