A beloved soccer custom at Texas Tech is making its strategy to the hockey rink with the revealing of latest alternate jerseys for the college’s hockey staff.
The hockey staff on the Lubbock, Texas-based college rolled out the brand new jerseys, made by X Jerseys, on their social media channels on Wednesday, September 18. The bottom of the jersey is sublimated with a texture resembling a tortilla — a nod to Pink Raiders soccer followers tossing tortillas onto the sector at house video games.
The entrance of the jersey has the participant’s quantity in between arched “TEXAS” textual content on high and straight “TECH” textual content beneath, all of which is crimson with black outlines. Pink and black stripes run across the waist and stripes, with marrow white stripes in between.
The shoulders are black with a Texas state flag on either side. The again half of the collar is crimson whereas the entrance half is black; white trim runs all the best way round. Numbers on the again and sleeves are crimson with black outlines.
Pink Raiders followers have been tossing tortillas on the soccer area for the reason that late Nineteen Eighties or early Nineties — it’s arduous to pin down precisely when or the way it began — and the custom has even ported over to different sports activities. Most notably, a tortilla was tossed on the court docket throughout the ultimate of the 2019 NCAA males’s basketball event at U.S. Financial institution Stadium in Minneapolis, which Texas Tech misplaced to the College of Virginia.
There are two theories on how the custom began, in keeping with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. One is that Texas Tech college students used to take away the plastic lids from their smooth drinks and throw them on the sector, however when concessions stopped giving out lids, they began tossing tortillas as a substitute.
The opposite stems from a remark from an ESPN announcer who, throughout a broadcast of a recreation between the Pink Raiders and their rivals from Texas A&M, allegedly stated Lubbock had “nothing however Texas Tech soccer and a tortilla manufacturing unit.” Fueled by the slight, followers introduced tortillas to the subsequent recreation and tossed them on the sector at kickoff.
Texas Tech’s hockey staff performs in Division 3 of the American Collegiate Hockey Affiliation. Their subsequent recreation is Friday, October 11, in opposition to the College of Texas-San Antonio on the Amarillo Ice Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.
The tortilla jerseys will go on sale to most of the people beginning at 5 p.m. CT on Thursday, Sept. 19. The shop hyperlink might be posted at the moment on the Texas Tech hockey web site at TTUhockey.com.
