On the NFL team captains’ patches, what do the stars under the “C” indicate?
They can’t be tenure with a team because if it were, Peyton Manning’s patch would pull his whole jersey down. They can’t indicate tenure in the NFL because then Brett Favre’s whole jersey would be one big patch. Gene. The stars under the “C” indicate the number of times the player has been a captain. Note that not every team uses the “C” patches. I think that’s the shortest answer we’ve ever written. And then by adding these last two sentences it probably isn’t. Since the players have issues with the Thursday night games why can’t the league just make sure the teams that play on Thursday night have a bye week the week before the game? DK Dawg. The problem is that the byes end in Week 10, the same week in which the Thursday night games start. Also, don’t assume that all players have issues with Thursday night games. Some (such as former NFL player Ross Tucker of ESPN, Sirius NFL Radio, and Sports USA Radio) like the short work week before a Thursday game and the 10 days between games on
