WHO: The Texas Tech club hockey teamWHAT: The squad’s new flour tortilla–themed jerseysWHY IT’S SO GREAT: The tortillas were flying early and often Saturday in Lubbock after Texas Tech took a 14–0 lead against Arizona State in its—wait for it—Big 12 football season opener. But the top tortilla story in Red Raiders sports last week was, believe it or not, hockey. On Thursday, the school’s club team unveiled an alternate jersey that splits the difference between quirky novelty and Red Raiders tradition. Behold, the tortilla jersey! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Hockey House (@hockeyhousepod) As Lubbock sports radio host Rob Breux wrote, it’s “a sports uniform that honor[s] the greatest thing a human can make with flour.”The jersey was the…
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