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2011-12-03 12:13:30 AM
I will be shocked if every professional sports team in the western world is not doing this within three years. Shocked, I say.

Complete and utter waste of money for the fans, but people will be lined up waiting to pay for it anyway.
 
2011-12-03 12:23:06 AM
It would certainly win any argument over whether or not you could call your team "we".
 
2011-12-03 12:24:43 AM
...and then he gets traded.
 
2011-12-03 12:27:24 AM
What stupid people do with their money is no concern to me. I just better not see any of you farkers at any protests.
 
2011-12-03 12:38:45 AM
Even better idea, do that and then offer those same people who bought a spot on the shirts an option to buy a copy of the shirt with your picture on it... for more than a regular player's shirt would cost. I could see that bringing in a ton more cash if you did it that way.
 
2011-12-03 12:39:24 AM
ilikeracecars: What stupid people do with their money is no concern to me. I just better not see any of you farkers at any protests.

I'm going to pay people money to shiat on your lawn.

/not arguing against TFA, just your generalized point
 
2011-12-03 01:15:37 AM
They should just sell naming rights to the blades of grass.
 
2011-12-03 01:27:30 AM
12349876: ilikeracecars: What stupid people do with their money is no concern to me. I just better not see any of you farkers at any protests.

I'm going to pay people money to shiat on your lawn.

/not arguing against TFA, just your generalized point


Dude, did you just call yourself stupid?
 
2011-12-03 01:28:32 AM
"The idea of a company called Playing 2, Sevilla fans (or anyone else) can go to its website, select the player they want to wear their mug and the exact spot on the number they want to appear for the entire season."



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2011-12-03 01:58:39 AM
I wonder how many dick pictures are submitted.
 
2011-12-03 02:25:29 AM
Harv72b: I will be shocked if every professional sports team in the western world is not doing this within three years. Shocked, I say.

Well I dont see it happening since football fans arent that dumb
 
2011-12-03 02:32:09 AM
So cock sucking gay... Jesus Christ people knob slob professional athletes.
 
2011-12-03 03:46:14 AM
Looking at the site where you can buy the squares, it looks like there are roughly 4,000 squares on the number "1" jersey alone. There are 25 jerseys you can buy space on, so 9 + 2*16 = 41 different digits. Since "1" has less space than any other digit, that makes the total price of all the squares AT MINIMUM 4,000 x 41 x $33.35 = $5.5 million, and probably closer to twice that.
 
2011-12-03 04:19:21 AM
You could feed a person for a week with just one frickin square...
 
2011-12-03 04:29:59 AM
This would be interesting if you could have a slightly larger picture and at the end of a season purchase the shirt. I think the small size of the picture has two major drawbacks. The first is people having less interest in purchasing space. The second compounds this with needing more spaces to be filled to creating a more interesting shirt. I mean, this isn't a one time thing, and I am sure printing all of those with this detail is not the same as mass-printing sports jerseys, but the appeal is kind of lost.

Give me an area about 3x4 on Pavel Datyuk's jersey and I would buy for $34 and I might buy a special edition jersey at the end of the year.
 
2011-12-03 08:05:30 AM
steamingpile: Harv72b: I will be shocked if every professional sports team in the western world is not doing this within three years. Shocked, I say.

Well I dont see it happening since football fans arent that dumb


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NFL fans already pay for personal seat licenses, for farks sake. They pay... for the right to buy tickets.

I'll repeat that: they pay for the right to buy a ticket.

I have zero doubt in my mind that within 5 years the NFL will have sponsor logos on uniforms, and the fans will pay even more for replicas because that's one more graphic that needs to be pressed on.

When you consider owners like the Glazers who also have stakes in European soccer teams and are familiar with the kinda money uniform sponsorship brings, it's just a matter of time. And once that particular Rubicon is crossed, nothing's safe.
 
2011-12-03 10:08:45 AM
Vangor: This would be interesting if you could have a slightly larger picture and at the end of a season purchase the shirt. I think the small size of the picture has two major drawbacks. The first is people having less interest in purchasing space. The second compounds this with needing more spaces to be filled to creating a more interesting shirt. I mean, this isn't a one time thing, and I am sure printing all of those with this detail is not the same as mass-printing sports jerseys, but the appeal is kind of lost.

My father is a very practical man, a mechanical engineer for goodness sake, but a few years back he bought a plot of land from the Lunar Embassy along with naming rights from the International Star Registry. (links pop)

Point being, even if the picture is so small that nobody but you will ever actually know it's there, people will still buy it...as a gift for their "ultimate fan" if nothing else. Send them some kind of official certificate as proof and there you go.

In my father's case, the purchases were so that he could "give the moon and the stars" to my mother for their anniversary. She loved it.
 
2011-12-03 10:29:34 AM
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2011-12-03 10:31:12 AM
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: They should just sell naming rights to the blades of grass.

Don't give them any ideas.
 
2011-12-03 10:33:36 AM
$35? of course a fan would do it... THEN, they go out and buy a shirt for big $... this is genius marketing at its finest! Hopefully the guy who came up with it gets into the 1%
 
2011-12-03 10:54:26 AM
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: They should just sell naming rights to the blades of grass.

Hold that thought...

(Calls buddies working at local sports team marketing department)
 
2011-12-03 01:21:25 PM
I think FARK users should get in on this, combining their efforts to buy one player's jersey for the express purpose of having the number's images spell out "UFIA," "Fark," or something else that's either a FARK meme, or something obscene.
 
2011-12-03 04:00:16 PM
mactheknife: I think FARK users should get in on this, combining their efforts to buy one player's jersey for the express purpose of having the number's images spell out "UFIA," "Fark," or something else that's either a FARK meme, or something obscene.

Pedobear.
 
2011-12-03 05:45:13 PM
mactheknife: I think FARK users should get in on this, combining their efforts to buy one player's jersey for the express purpose of having the number's images spell out "UFIA," "Fark," or something else that's either a FARK meme, or something obscene.

I vote for "Dammit Orton!"
 
2011-12-04 04:14:05 AM
"That 14 could be filled with butts."
 
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