The coolest jumper ever

In Ireland we have the concept of the Jumper. In other countries they have sweaters, pullovers or some other fancy term. Here in Ireland it is the jumper.

It is made of wool, sometimes good and sometimes not good such as when they mix in all kinds of other stuff to make it stretchy or resistant to Guinness stains.

There are special occasion jumpers, the most notable being the Christmas Jumper. There is a scene in the Bridget Jones film where one of the fellas is wearing a real Christmas Jumper. Clearly they have the Jumper concept in the UK too.

But still not anything to beat the Irish Jumper. Read on.

So I was in Heathrow airport a couple of weeks back, well maybe 8 or so weeks back, and there was this fella walking up and down in the departures lounge. When I saw him first I thought he was a bit locked perhaps but actually he wasn't. He just had an unusual sloping kind of walk.

Anyway what struck me about him was his Jumper. It was breath-taking.

It was bright blue. The kind of blue that you see plastic barrels made in. The kind of bright blue that just doesn't look like anything in Nature. It was royal blue only nuclear intense.

Along the front were the words "UP ROSS".

As he passed I noticed on the back there was a football pattern knitted into the back of the Jumper along with what looked like a goal, only a GAA goal. A GAA goal (some people are not going to be happy with this) looks like a cross between a football goal and a set of Rugby goalposts.

Then as he came back and walked past I noticed all down one arm of the Jumper was the word ROSCOMMON in capitals.

So from this I deduced the following. This fella was a GAA fan and was from Roscommon. Fair play to him wearing his colours with pride I say. Roscommon is a county in Ireland (map) (info) and the county colours of the GAA team are blue and yellow.

Now of course the easy thing to do would have been to go and buy a replica shirt, as pretty much everyone else does.

This guy in my view has shown real dedication. God bless the person who sat down and knitted that Jumper.

If there was a Jumper of the year award then this is without doubt the Jumper of the Year 2007. Shame I didn't have a camera.

p.s. Just saw this ad on an Irish web forum:

"does anyone hv a knitting pattern for a christmas jumper for a teenager"

Deadly.

p.p.s. I also saw this. Not sure if this is a prize winner.