Btw, we're taking primary here, not general election, and Al Gore wasn't running as a big hero who'd helped save his home state from terrorists. I sure  don't remember Gore wearing Tennessee like a cloak or a crown, like Rudy wears NY and 9/11.

That's an old baseball tradition for players on a team that's just playing out the string of their schedule (having no chance of going to the post-season) to give each other such mementoes.

They will do things like have everyone autograph everyone's jersey or cap, collect the whole team's autograph on a ball, or have everyone change positions every inning.  

I once saw a minor league game where a couple of the players played every position, changing every inning.  And one of the coaches (whose resume said he'd played in the Negro Leagues for the Indianapolis Clowns) was wearing a jersey with the autograph of every player on the team.  It didn't matter because the game was the last game for the "franchise", which had been a "road" team kept in existence by the league to make sure there was a round number of teams playing.  They were far out of first, and not going to exist the next year.  Truly one of the outer circles of baseball hell.