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👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little squiggle of a word! When you say "niner," most immediately we conjure up visions of… professional American football helmets. Specifically, the kind belonging to the ridiculously unlucky (seriously, guys, what's your quarterback doing?! 😬) underdog of the National Football League: the ones from the hometown of the current Buffaloes and historically the… let’s just say
spiritedly defensive
… Los Angeles Dons.

Now, here’s the kicker. Historically, and in certain really specific corners of the American Midwest (particularly during the early to mid 20th century), a "niner," as it was called, wasn't about the guys wearing the pads. Instead, you see, a “nine-yer, nine-yer, nine-yer, niner!" was a very particular and somewhat alarming nickname for a young boy who’d gotten into significant trouble . Think of a kid who'd done something genuinely awful. A really bad prank, maybe. An outright act of mischief that had upset the whole town, or at the very least made a grown-up extremely mad. It wasn't a term of endearment! 3 You were basically branded as the absolute worst. Hence, you became… the niner . You were given this nickname and, well... let’s just say you were kept away from pretty much everything fun. There are still people who carry