Detroit Lions receiver Kalif Raymond remembers the mantra he says he heard while growing up playing backyard football in Georgia: You don't need gloves. Catch with your hands. If he dropped a pass, a glove had to come off.
"Using gloves was a privilege," Raymond says. "If I got gloves, I better catch the ball."
Raymond is such a gearhead now that he spent three months earlier this season searching the internet for the model of gloves he wore in high school -- the Nike Elite Remix Magnigrip. He recalled seeing a photo of former Minnesota Vikings receiver and returner Percy Harvin wearing them and had to have them.