re: Ole miss will all wear 38 on the helmets Saturday

All jokes aside, I think your original comment is probably true. I can't speak with certainty, but I also doubt that these players are highly motivated to win a game because of Chucky Mullins' number. I would say the same thing about Alabama playing one for Bear Bryant or Derrick Thomas.

They probably see it the way I see Carson Tinker, the long snapper from Bama who lost his girlfriend in the tornado. I care, I feel sympathy, and it's particularly important because he's "one of us"...but I wouldn't gain some special motivation if I were playing a game and we were memorializing Tinker's girlfriend Ashley.