MDen selling Woodson & Howard jerseys with nameplates; first time ever
MDen is breaking their policy of no names on the back of jerseys.
They now are selling Charles Woodson and Desmond Howard jerseys with the nameplates.
http://www.mden.com/um-new-arrivals#1
I believe he NCAA's days are numbered. Maybe some day we'll see a jersey with the QB's name on the back while he is in college.
Sorry, no name plate but they are using his name.
Guys, we should keep this on the DL. I don't want Howard to get suspended.
+1 Insightful
If he gets suspended that means he will be able to return.
Already have a Howard one (from Champs like 5 years ago).
But the Woodson is my dream. Dreams do come true!
August 8th, 2013 at 11:31 PM ^
Woodson is my all time favorite. I haven't bought a jersey in a long time but it looks like that is about to change....
that we have never met?
If you're the ID, he could be the Superego? You need to find an Ego as a moderator.
They're also doing a Howard road jersey.
Man those colors are dark. I thought that was an Iowa jersey.
No human should have to make a decision like that!
$160 for a screen-printed jersey? No thanks. (I know the MDen page says embroidered but those photos definitely look screenprinted). They don't appear to be a major jump in quality from the $65 "replica" jerseys.
The home jerseys look like tackle-twill to me. The road jersey posted doesn't, but it's all kind of funny anyway--back then, everything was screen-printed. Sounds like they may use authentic-style fabrics.
I'll grant that it's hard to tell with these, and MDen's online pictures are relatively hit or miss as far as such things go. I'd like to see one in person. And I'm not sure but screen print may be accurate to the era (sidenote - I have a #32 adidas practice jersey from one of the garage sales that I'm pretty sure belonged to Kovacs - no name but right era and size, and it's very similar to this - mesh front and back, screenprinted numbers, but thickly screened so the holes are mostly filled in).
In any case, these are $40 more than the customized "Premier" jerseys. Which, yeah it's Woodson/Howard, but that's steep.
and by embroidered it looks like the letters are screened onto a separate piece of fabric, which is "embroidered" onto the jersey.
Still cool as all get out.!
Yeah... You're paying $160 for a polyester t-shirt.
They've also missed one key detail on the Woodson jersey: the subtle embossed M design on each shoulder, only worn in 1995-7.
The jerseys that Howard (Russell Athletic) and Woodson (NIke) wore at Michigan were screen printed. The numbers were screened and the names were screened on name plates and the plates were sewn on. I actually liked the screened Nike jerseys better than the sewn Nike or Adidas jerseys. They were awesome.
I was just looking at that on the MDen site. Question: Is the image on the front really black, like it looks in the pics, or blue, like you would expect for a Michigan garment? Black would be pretty lame. Has anyone seen them in person?
The printing is navy blue.
In response to the Jay Bilas brouhaha, Mark Emmert has just announced that the NCAA is getting out of the business of jersey sales on its website, saying that he completely understands why that would seem hypocritical.
In the meantime, I think this is cool. And of course there can be no doubt that Howard and Woodson are getting cuts, as they should. Per Howards tweet history, it sounds like he is pondering joining the Obannon suit--no way Michigan sells named stuff of his without his consent and benefit.
but there's a Glen Rice jersey too!
edit: dammit, double post...
I've looked at the Cazzie and Rice ones in stores. The quality is TERRIBLE. They're cheap, very thin material and the numbers/names look like they'd peel off in 20 minutes. I was severely disappointed with Tiedman & Formby on them. I was ready to drop a bucket of money on the Cazzie one and walked away instead.
I'm afraid the Woodson/Desmond ones will be just as bad. The only high-quality ones that company's ever made were the old-school Ford/Kramer/Oosterban ones.
Yep, they definitely sold throwback jerseys with nameplates during the Nike years. They were expensive and short-lived, but it happened. So, OP is wrong...
No he's not.
This is the first time MDen is selling jerseys with nameplates on them. They had a policy before to not sell them "out of respect for former players".
I complained about this on here after I was denied a Tom Harmon jersey.
And what we're telling you is that MDen DID sell jerseys with nameplates in the late 90s-early 00s. Nike throwbacks. I saw them, and apparently others did, too.
What you're talking about is MDen's jersey customization service, which prohibits nameplates with current or former players' names and numbers. These jerseys aren't like those anyway, as these are throwbacks specifically mass-produced for Howard and Woodson by a third party, not just a one-off on a blank Adidas (or Nike) jersey ordered by a fan.
So, yes, MDen HAS sold jerseys with nameplates on the back. You're just probably not old enough to remember it.
The weirdest part was they were selling both a home and away version of the Brady Orange Bowl jersey, even though we wore the whites in the actual game...
EDIT: eBay examples:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nike-Tom-Brady-University-of-Michigan-2000-Oran…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Hand-Signed-Tom-Brady-Fed-Ex-Orange-Bowl-M…
That's exactly it, I DON'T remember MDen ever selling them. I've seen them before online and in memorabilia stores.
But I guess I'll take your word for it.
Sell the numbers with an old name attached (who can get a cut) to keep the current players with number 21 & 2 from arguing that the school/NCAA is selling "their" jersey.
Also, this shirt. Not enough lolz.
http://www.mden.com/shopping/product.cgi?AD1372+1014
Rivalries never die... Unless Notre Dame wants to play Purdue instead.
They apparently forgot the rest of the sentence, which should read, "....except by hand-delivered letter."
But they can be killed.
Since they didn't put a picture of the back of the shirt.....
I wonder how these might sell in Ohio.
*Whistles and slowly walks away*
That's a good question. My first inclination is that they would sell much like hotcakes.
Well, that explains at least one voice in my head.