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I read some shocking news via my friend EB_the Celeb's twitter page. (Check her out http://www.jonesin-eb-style.com/, she is dope) The information was startling, frightening, and near sickening. I have an extremely strong stomach, but I almost hurled. The NFL is going to use their practice jersey's to sell advertising? Are you kidding me is an understatement. WTF!
I haven't heard the term sellout in a very long while, but it's only fitting for this egregious offense. I mean the patches are cool and apart of the culture for NASCAR and for Soccer(fu'tbol) but this is American Football people, and yes it requires capital letters.
So far the only teams thinking about doing such a stupid thing are the Packers(dumb team that chose Aaron Rodgers over Brett Favre) and the Houston Texans (they've been torturing Andre Johnson for six seasons now with incompetent quarterbacks). The Packers decision surprises me, such a storied organization with such rich tradition, how could this happen. Now the Texans on the other hand are about as dependable as Ryan Leaf. I mean, ads don't belong on football jerseys even if it is just a practice jersey. To be honest, I always think to myself how cool some of those soccer jerseys would look if they lost the ads.
I'm not sure if the NFL realizes this, but people hate ads. Why do you think newspapers are going down the drain. Why are magazine's struggling. They all make their money off advertisments and ads aren't the hottest thing moving right now. DVR has also dealt the advertising industry a huge blow. I am a copywriter myself and I love advertising but for the most part many Americans don't, and I understand why they don't. The majority of ads are bad ideas that clutter up whatever medium of entertainmet a person was enjoying before the ad interrupted the moment.
To place a corporate sponsor logo on a jersey is just going to cheapen the jersey, the team, and the game.
Here is Santos Laguna, of the Mexican Soccer League, home jersey
I don't see any numbers on these jerseys(that's un-American, duh). They look like classified ads running around a soccer field. Roger Godell, please stop this madness. I am begging you. This is like the calm before the storm. They are keeping this as quiet and subtle as possible and then before you know it they will be on game jerseys.
For more info read this here dandy link I attached.
NFL to allow corporate patches on practice jerseys
That's all I got,
Ricky Writer
