Haha, I noticed it too when I was about to post it but I decided not to bother trying to fix it. I'll probably never be great on the technical side of writing anyway :)

Here's a longer one, my favorite single sentence from fiction: 

“A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

None of the major ones that's for sure!

However Michigan can afford to do without a sponser. Michigan can afford to do what every school used to do, actually pay for equipment and not be advertising whores for evil clothing companies. Michigan could make their own shit. Michigan could have any generic factory make their shit without any corporate or company logos on it.

Michigan could've funded and helped start a worker owned co-op in Detroit to manufacture uniforms, shoes and equipment and promote THAT company! Train the unemployed and under employed in Detroit to do that. In Detroit, the city who started the U of M. In Detroit, by far the longest and largest contributor of athletes to Michigan's great sports traditions. In Detroit, a black city devastated by our system, by our history, by our power structure.

If there were justice & equality in economics, education & society there wouldn't be black breeding grounds for athletes like Detroit and every poor black city or area which the athletic department has exploited for glory and lucre, as do all schools and sports.

The best thing you can claim about it is that they give this tiny select group of people scholarships, but that's an allegedly good thing only in the context of a terrible system which requires scholarships for poor people to get an education when the education should be free in the first place for everybody!

The university is one of the biggest educational profiteers in the world for a public institution, more expensive than most private schools, and they aren't doing anything to change or highlight the issue, they are part and parcel of the problems. They have a moral, ethical & human duty to use the power of their platform & power of their money to address the most dire issues of the day and those largest and closest to home, and those which they've been a part of allowing to continue by participating and by not doing a fraction of what they're capable of doing about it. They are not being leaders or the best.

In a traditional pyramid scheme top down hierarchical company if a billion dollars come in, 90 percent of the money goes to the top handful of people who do virtually zero percent of the total work done and the workers who do basically 100% of the work split ten percent of the money. In that company the ones who get all of the money won't live in the city, or probably the state, and they'll only spend a fraction of their money anyway on taxes or on buying shit even if they do live in the city. So as little of the money generated as possible will stay in the city and help the economy or the schools or the services or the infrastructure.

However if a billion dollars comes in and it's shared relatively equally amongst the workers who actually do the work, now you have a shit ton of people in the local economy who will all pay taxes there and spend most everything they make, and that whole billion will recirculate in the local economy and become an upward spiral.

Once a school as famous and powerful as Michigan, with the reach it has, decides to explain the benefits of worker owned co-ops and highlights the actual structural problems in our system that perpetuate the problems, and moves to expand that company and others like it into more areas where it recruits and where it has connections the whole thing can go viral and change the fucking world!

I'm sure all of the charity events and programs our athletes and the U is involved with have great people involved, with their hearts in the right places trying to make a difference. But without addressing the systemic, structural, historical & political factors the big picture will never change.

The university has the power to do something serious, something monumental and trans-formative, and something that will last and sustain itself and not be dependent on charity.

A lot. It has a terrible case of the munchies.

How hard is it to feed that massively selfish head when it's so far up yer bum?

Seriously, you have to be a real piece of shit to castigate someone for giving a fuck about other people & wanting an honest and just world to live in instead of  fucking tyranny!

I bet you were one of the people spouting phony "patriotism" in the 4th of July thread, but any of the stated ideals in the Declaration & the Constitution are anathema to you! The odds are you call yourself a Christian too yet stand diametrically opposed to everything the alleged Jesus allegedly was about!

Unless you're in the one percent then everything I advocate from my "high horse" would be to your tremendous benefit you dumbfuck! If you are in the one percent and have that attitude then there isn't a bad fate that could befall you that you don't deserve.

But have a nice day in the mean time.

But I take that as a compliment.

is Adidas making any money on this deal? Maybe they would be interested in getting bought out early.

Nothing this big though.

Industrial base, a quarter of their population, blah, blah, blah.  

We're talking Michigan apparel here.

"I made my first Nike purchase since I was in elementary school as that was the last time Michigan wore Nike. "

You're killing me. 

I'm going to go stew some prunes now.