Cris Carter’s jacket tells you he’s ‘Buckeye Born And Bread’

Oh, this hurts. The photo you see up top is of FS1’s Cris Carter proudly wearing a jacket that has an embroidered, pro-Ohio State message. Usually, you’d say the idiom “born and bred” to show pride in where you came from. The jacket was so close to capturing Carter’s pride in his alma mater — unfortunately, it says “Buckeye Born And Bread.” As in, bread, the food.

It’s an easy typo to miss, because “bread” and “bred” are homophones, words that are spelled differently, but sound the same. It’s also an easy typo to fix if you’re writing either word on paper or on a computer. But it’s not an easy typo to fix when you’re stitching it on a jacket. Like, to fix that would require physically tearing it off and ruining the jacket. I feel really bad for Carter and whoever stitched that message.

On the bright side, however, at least it’s not a tattoo with a prediction gone wrong.

Correction: This post originally said “bread” and “bred” were homonyms, which is wrong. They are actually homophones. Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have different meanings. Apologies for getting that one wrong.