[8][9] Then-Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is credited with starting the trend in the NFL during his rookie season in 2014, eventually becoming popular in the NBA as well.
[12][13] Joe Kelly swapped his jersey with a Mariachi musician for his charro jacket in celebration of his Mexican heritage and wore it to the Los Angeles Dodgers' championship trip to the White House following their victory in the 2020 World Series.
[14] In Australian rules football, guernsey swapping was common in grand finals from as early as the 1940s until around the 1980s.
Decades later, long-retired players often handed swapped guernseys back to their original wearers.
One instance was British foreign secretary Boris Johnson swapping national team jerseys with Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela before their countries faced each other in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.