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I know what reversible pennies look like, but I am just terribly curious as to how the concept of "penny" have to do with the reversible jerseys. I am sure the word "penny" must have came out of someone's mouth many years ago, and that idea caught on.

I always thought it was "pinny" though I don't have any more clues as to the origins of the word.

Following up on onpoint's comment on "pinny", I decided to google that word and found two resources. The first link below is from the UK and the second reference is quite interesting. I will allow those links to be self-explanatory. Back to the first URL link, I think it sounds plausible for why we say "penny" or "pennies". Anyway, here they are:

http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/pinny

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/pinny

Thanks, onpoint, for giving me the clue to do further research. I don't think this is really up bste_lax's alley to find any random link related to pinny.

I went ahead and did another google search by typing "reversible athletic pinnies" and found a site. It is interesting that some of us spell them as reversible pennies, so actually we should have been saying "pinnies". Whatever! We know what the person is talking about.

http://gcea.com/id6.shtm

I am assuming that we got the idea of "pinny" coming from some kind of dress or frock way back before our time and carried that over to the athletic world.

well if it is penny then i dont know why mine keep disappearing when i lend them out cause they could go get their own for cheap. over all the years and about 5 pinnys later i only have 1 left... i got some from camps too...

UofMLaxGoalie11 wrote:well if it is penny then i dont know why mine keep disappearing when i lend them out cause they could go get their own for cheap. over all the years and about 5 pinnys later i only have 1 left... i got some from camps too...

Dan Dan Dan...It's supposed to be a PENNY for your thoughts, not a PINNY...