<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Updated: May 25, 2006, 2:21 PM ETBush to wear No. 25 this coming seasonBy Darren RovellESPN.comReggie Bush will get to wear No. 5 after all. There will just be a "2" in front of it.Bush's marketing agent, Mike Ornstein, told ESPN.com on Thursday that his client will wear No. 25 next season for the New Orleans Saints.Bush will get the number from Saints running back Fred McAfee. Ornstein said that rather than directly pay McAfee a fee for the use of the number, Bush will give half the money he had earmarked for charity to McAfee to use for the charity of his choice. Bush has pledged to donate 25 percent of his jersey sales royalties to Hurricane Katrina-related causes."We all went and dug into our pockets, and the city is as devastated today as the day it happened," Ornstein said. "And now, everyone has gone on to the next disaster."To get No. 5, which he wore in high school and college, Bush needed the NFL Competition Committee to change the league's numbering rules. Currently, running backs are allowed only to wear numbers between 20 and 49. Earlier this week, the committee decided not to change the rules."Hopefully, they will change the rules next year so that Reggie can go back to wearing his old number," Ornstein said.The delay of the decision might have hurt sales of Bush jerseys in the weeks since he was chosen second overall in the NFL draft. Eddie White, a vice president at Reebok, which makes the league's jerseys, said Bush's jersey had ranked first in preorders but is now in second place behind Vince Young's No. 10 for the Tennessee Titans. Young, who wore No. 10 at the University of Texas, has had that number with the Titans since draft day."It was a bunch of baloney that not having the No. 5 would hurt his sales," White said. "He could have worn any number, as long as we could have sold it that [draft day]Sunday, like we did for Vince Young and A.J. Hawk and Matt Leinart. But because he didn't have anything, he's behind Vince."</div>http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2457823
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ST34LTH @ May 25 2006, 02:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Lol, all these years in Madden when I draft him I always changed him to 25.</div>lol thats crazy...25 isnt a bad number.. i think it will fit him nice.. but stil that woulda been cool to see him with 5
That is so gay. I say New Orleans needs to give everyone that attends games a free Bush jersey with #5 on it. YEAH!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sheriff Gonna Getcha @ May 25 2006, 07:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That is so gay. I say New Orleans needs to give everyone that attends games a free Bush jersey with #5 on it. YEAH!</div>yeah lol.. i agree
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MS2 @ May 25 2006, 08:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I dont really see many running backs with that number...</div>uhm... no you dont lol.. thats because running backs wear numbers 20-49
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrowhead? @ May 28 2006, 09:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I agree, I don't think 25 really fits him well...</div>Of course it won't fit him well since we're so used to seeing him wear "#5".
If you don't think #25 fits him well, which number (that he is allowed to wear) would suit him better?
I'm glad they didn't let him wear #5. It wouldn't be right to change the rules just for one person. Personally I think the #s should be a little more open, like RBs can have #0 to #40. Then let positions that aren't really related overlap.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Uptown @ May 29 2006, 12:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Of course it won't fit him well since we're so used to seeing him wear "#5".</div>I don't think it's the fact we are used to seeing him in the #5 uniform, but the #25 is not a # you usually see a RB use. Besides, he really doesn't seem like a "25" guy. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Johnny White Guy @ May 29 2006, 10:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you don't think #25 fits him well, which number (that he is allowed to wear) would suit him better?</div>I could picture him in a 34 for some reason.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Capt. Comeback @ Jun 3 2006, 09:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Johnny White Guy @ May 29 2006, 10:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you don't think #25 fits him well, which number (that he is allowed to wear) would suit him better?</div>I could picture him in a 34 for some reason.</div>Maybe 32 because 3 + 2 = 5, or 23 cuz of the same thing... maybe he could be the Michael Jordan of football
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Johnny White Guy @ Jun 4 2006, 12:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Maybe 32 because 3 + 2 = 5, or 23 cuz of the same thing... maybe he could be the Michael Jordan of football</div>I think it'd be better with 23, yea.
