If I were a varsity letterman, I wouldn't give a rats a$$ if everybody else in the whole school bought a letter jacket and a letter to put on it. If I earn something, the earning of it is 'mine' and doesn't have anything to do with what someone else does...in other words...it can't be 'negated', or 'diminished', by what someone else does. In this case in particular, it certainly wouldn't bother me to help bolster the ego of a young person who was already fighting a hard battle.
yep. I never even bought my letterman's jacket when I was in HS.
