Why is a reporter asking Ernie Sims about his package? Article On why football players don t wear jock straps : When we were little kids like in pee wee football they used to make us wear jock straps. As we got older in high school, some kids wore them I didn t wear them in high school. In college pretty much nobody wore them. It s just the type of thing that, I ve got hit in the jewels before ...