OMG! This sounds just like my high school! No joke the uniforms for our track and cross country teams are OVER 20 years old, and those teams win regularly,(our cross country team is undefeated for the 5th year in a row) but our football team which rarely if ever wins just got brand new Underarmour uniforms, and their uniforms weren't even 5 years old.
The reason our football team gets so much attention? Because it's a small town, and it's all about "american" values, so basically, football, and everything goes by who you know and who daddy is.