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What does "GU 63" patch mean on the NFL jerseys?
It's opening weekend for the NFL and I'm sitting down with my 12 year old son watching the Dallas Cowboys play their first regular season game against the Cleveland Browns and we notice that all of the players jerseys have a black patch with GU 63. We ask each other what does it mean?
Well after not hearing the announcers Troy Aikman and Joe Buck say anything about it, I pickup my Black Berry 8830 and Google "what does nfl patch gu stand for" on Google. I find the answer on the first result at answers.yahoo.com which said:
NFL players will wear a uniform patch this season to honor NFL Players' Association leader Gene Upshaw, who died Aug. 20.The league announced Monday that the patch will have the initials GU and the number 63, which he wore while playing for the Oakland Raiders.
Upshaw died of pancreatic cancer just three days after he was diagnosed...
It's nice that I found the answer so quickly, but I want to FAULT answers.yahoo.com for not detecting that I was viewing their website with a mobile browser and displaying a page that would be easier to read instead of scrolling through pages of unnecessary links for the mobile visitor to get to the answer to my question. I would think that Yahoo would have better mobile navigation.
I can go to ESPN.com, CNN.com or FOXNEWS.com and they will detect if I'm a mobile browser visitor and then display the appropriate mobile version of the page. For example, if I go to www.espn.com on my iPhone the page title will come up with "ESPN iPhone" and if I go to ESPN from my BlackBerry 8830 I will get "ESPN Mobile" both pages are easy to navigate.
It’s frustrating now when websites won't take the necessary time to put the appropriate mobile style sheets in place. I attended the Search Engine Strategies San Jose conference last month and most of the first day had tracks about mobile websites and what companies are doing to make sure mobile visitors can view their websites easier. We are in the process right now of redoing ALL of our sites with the appropriate mobile/hand held style sheets. I know it can be a pain doing this depending on how the user is suppose to navigate through your site, but you have to do it. It's just like the automakers now having to adjust their factories to make hybrids. It will not be fun at first, but well worth it in the end.
Now back to game. GO COWBOYS!
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