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MourningView posted:Eh, they weren't going to ignore that potential revenue stream forever. I get why people don't like it but I imagine they'll get over it pretty quickly. At some point I'm sure people were mad about ads all over the court too, but with time everyone stopped noticing. It'll just become part of basketball. Eventually only the crotchety old dudes who get mad about rap music and t-shirt cannons will still be complaining and everyone else will just shrug. Counterpoint: ads on jerseys are tacky and lame and it's normal to hate them
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Hate all you want, it only matters if you stop watching and buying merchandise. They'll keep making decisions that make them money. Unfortunately they have a monopoly on the product we want.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:I can't wait to get my hands on a Cleveland PROGRESSIVE AUTO INSURANCE or Boston DUNKIN DONUTS jersey for Christmas. Gonna get me a Varitek jersey, because Everyone Runs on Dunkin
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I wonder if that would result in fewer wacky alts.
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This makes sleeves on jerseys an inevitability, doesn't it? Why would anyone want to get rid of the additional ad space?
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I go to a ton of Toledo Walleye games (low level minor league hockey) and they and most of the teams in the league have ads on the jerseys. To be honest, they're not hard to look past after a couple games. The ice has ads on it as well. Now granted, this sort of stuff has gone along with minor leagues for a while now so I suppose there's a different feel to it versus going to a full fledged top level pro game. Still, it's not the worst thing. I just wanna watch hockey. E: it definitely does give the jersey a cluttered look, I'll grant. The jerseys you buy from the stores don't have ads on them though.
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DJExile posted:I just wanna watch hockey. Yeah this has always been my stance on it. I get why people don't like it but for me as long as basketball is still basketball and has dudes doing rad dunks and poo poo I don't really care about the asthetics of the jersey that much. It'd be cool if they looked good, but that's just a bonus. The uniforms being tacky isn't such a big deal that it kills the sport for me. I lived through the 90s when everyone had awful black or teal pinstripes with gigantic cartoon mascot logos on the jersey, so I can deal with some ads.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:I can't wait to get my hands on a Cleveland PROGRESSIVE AUTO INSURANCE or Boston DUNKIN DONUTS jersey for Christmas. It'll be Quicken Loans, Fathead, Horseshoe Casino, and (in the future) LRMR Marketing for the Cavs IMO.
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MourningView posted:Yeah this has always been my stance on it. I get why people don't like it but for me as long as basketball is still basketball and has dudes doing rad dunks and poo poo I don't really care about the asthetics of the jersey that much. It'd be cool if they looked good, but that's just a bonus. The uniforms being tacky isn't such a big deal that it kills the sport for me. I lived through the 90s when everyone had awful black or teal pinstripes with gigantic cartoon mascot logos on the jersey, so I can deal with some ads. I don't agree at all. Could be because baseball's my favorite sport (and probably next with this bullshit), but the aesthetics of the game are important, especially the uniforms for old-line franchises. Yankee Stadium is already plastered with ads in every conceivable space, but at least it stops where the field begins. How much do we need to accept before enough is enough?
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zakharov posted:I don't agree at all. Could be because baseball's my favorite sport (and probably next with this bullshit), but the aesthetics of the game are important, especially the uniforms for old-line franchises. Yankee Stadium is already plastered with ads in every conceivable space, but at least it stops where the field begins. How much do we need to accept before enough is enough? I'm not saying anyone else has to like it, just that I don't care. As long as the essential elements of the sport are the same I don't care what they wear. If other people do that's fine. Every sport has survived plenty of hideous uniforms though.
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I don't care either (except to make fun of wacky sponsorships that will inevitably hapoen), but part of that might be because the Cavaliers have been committed to making their jerseys worse and worse so anything is an improvement over what they have now.
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Outrage against jersey ads is all we have. The NHL has straight up admitted the only reason they haven't done it is because they knew if they were the first, they'd be roasted for it. Jerseys would be a great bubble to see pop. It has to be coming, what with prices for them going up and up while quality (physically, not aesthetically) goes down and down and people are starting to realize you can get knockoffs that look close enough for a fraction of the price.
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FuzzySkinner posted:It'll be Quicken Loans, Fathead, Horseshoe Casino, and (in the future) LRMR Marketing for the Cavs IMO. Fathead the tacky wall stickers or Fat Head the delicious craft beer? This is important.
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Mahoning posted:Fathead the tacky wall stickers or Fat Head the delicious craft beer? This is important. The Dan Gilbert owned FatHead. He also owns QuickenLoans and the Cavs.
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DJExile posted:I go to a ton of Toledo Walleye games (low level minor league hockey) and they and most of the teams in the league have ads on the jerseys. To be honest, they're not hard to look past after a couple games. The ice has ads on it as well. Now granted, this sort of stuff has gone along with minor leagues for a while now so I suppose there's a different feel to it versus going to a full fledged top level pro game. Still, it's not the worst thing. I just wanna watch hockey.
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I think the ASHLEY MADISON DOT COM New York Knicks jerseys will send a mixed message. Also, how quickly will boner pills and other pharmaceuticals jump on board and will they have to add the laundry list of side effect legalese to each jersey. I for one really want to have the word "bleeding" appear on my kit at least 17 times (no matter how small) just because Lipitor bought ad space. This was an inevitability but with enough public blowback with a drop in merchandise sales it could be short lived.
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If Viagra doesn't sponsor whatever the oldest team is in the league, then this is a failed experiment.
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Put the Pink Taco logo right on the back of the Phoenix Suns jersey
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Benne posted:He's got Vikings-Bills next week so nope! Not anymore! Tim Brando's calling that game now and Goldberg will go back to trying to shout over Joe Rogan. There goes the dream Goldy.
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ESPN is literally showing "Cross Fit" on TV. Right now. People actually paid money and took times out of their day to watch people work out. Kenny Powers has never been more right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De7rbB2bteE
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FuzzySkinner posted:ESPN is literally showing "Cross Fit" on TV. Right now. did you just watch ESPN for the first time in like 3 years or something?
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FuzzySkinner posted:ESPN is literally showing "Cross Fit" on TV. Right now. More of a sport than other espn broadcasted sport "magic the gathering"
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ayn rand hand job posted:More of a sport than other espn broadcasted sport "magic the gathering" Scrabble.
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Peanut President posted:Scrabble. DOTA 2
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At one point they were showing like 70,000 hours of poker in prime time. Gigantic blocks of programming devoted to math dorks who got beat up all the time in high school wearing sunglasses and trying to look cool.
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ayn rand hand job posted:More of a sport than other espn broadcasted sport "magic the gathering" I own this on VHS. It's just as dreadful as it sounds.
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Great White Hope posted:I own this on VHS. Todd Harris called it. It makes that even more amusing to me.
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They're not playing Strongman competitions any more? That's a shame. That was good stuff when you were sick or hungover.
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Anals of History posted:They're not playing Strongman competitions any more? That's a shame. That was good stuff when you were sick or hungover. CBS Sports picked up the rights to those
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FuzzySkinner posted:Todd Harris called it. The most amusing part is hearing sports people say, completely seriously, the words "White Weenie" repeatedly.
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Kibner posted:DOTA 2 DOTA players probably make more than MLS players, to be fair.
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sportsgenius86 posted:did you just watch ESPN for the first time in like 3 years or something?
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Along those lines, I occasionally work as a photographer for Spartan Race when they're in the area and I see some of those are getting covered on NBCSN now. Lord knows why, but there you are.
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Peanut President posted:Scrabble. Chess, on occasion when I was in college (which was cool by me, being a chess guy), but I suppose there's at least some tradition of that getting sports coverage dating back to the Fischer days.
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Do they still have those outdoors things were people would run on logs and chop wood (and I think there was also a dog component)
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the culminator posted:Do they still have those outdoors things were people would run on logs and chop wood (and I think there was also a dog component) Lumberjack games? I wish, you gotta head to the north woods to see that these days YO HOOOOOOOOOOO.
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Do they still show bowling on Sundays? That was prime hangover programming when I was in college...
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