OT - NHL opens door to ads on jerseys
The NHL signed a deal with Adidas, and not to make this another post about apparel companies, the money shot is that this purportedly opens the door to on-jersey ads.
Ugh.
http://www.tsn.ca/talent/adidas-lands-nhl-jersey-deal-1.346839
“If you’re already deciding on a major NHL jersey overhaul, maybe with Adidas striping on the jerseys, then it seems like it would be a good time to introduce the ads, if you plan to do it anyway,” a league source told TSN.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:30 AM ^
Fuck that. I already hate NASCAR. I don't need to see hockey players look like race car drivers.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:37 AM ^
Do you hate auto racing or the ads on cars/drivers suits? Those NASCAR sponsors pretty much fund the whole teams ability to field a car/team/testing etc....
Sure professional sports teams jerseys today don't have ads (yet), but what do you see on the court/rink? on the boards in the NHL? all around the stadium in the respective sports? When you watch a professional sporting event, you're watching a commercial, whether it's on the uniforms or not.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
On the other hand, I would never want to see this in college. We need to at least pretend that they're still student athletes.
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August 18th, 2015 at 10:11 AM ^
The difference is that soccer doesn't have commercial breaks, which makes the sponsored jerseys much more tolerable and understandable.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
Like a la carte pricing for air travel, we may as well expect the change on NHL team sweaters, even if we hate the idea.
Long before I began to closely follow international soccer (so that I knew that team sponsors could advertise on jerseys/kits), baseball was the sport I followed closely. I learned of the Japanese Baseball League through the exploits of the great Sadaharu Oh.
For many years, I thought that the strangest name for any professional sports team was the Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japanese Baseball League. I wondered (a) why anyone would want to be fighting hams and (b) how those hams could fight back. And then one day I learned that the team was based in Tokyo (and now in Sapporo) and that Nippon Ham was the Japanese food processing company that owned and sponsored the team.
For many decades, professional baseball has had sponsor signage on outfield and bleacher walls. Rotating sponsor signs are all round professional soccer fields, and NHL rinks have sponsors' signs along the boards and logos painted under the ice.
Professional soccer jerseys in the United States have adopted the sponsorship jerseys/kits.
They're just following the European tradition.
August 18th, 2015 at 1:36 PM ^
The paint is on the ice, not below it.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
I cannot stand car racing whatsoever. It is more boring than baseball and that is hard to do. Also, I don't care about the ads in and around the stadium and on fields/courts/rinks. They don't belong on jerseys. All that should go on a jersey is the team name, logo, and apparel company logo.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:59 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 9:31 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 9:31 AM ^
If I had a corporate logo tattooed to my forehead, do you think I could get paid?
August 18th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
MeanJoe thinks that is a great idea. Here is his ass...
Looking for payments from the Eucalyptus Growers Group
August 18th, 2015 at 9:55 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
But aren't we supposed to go find another company to root for?
August 18th, 2015 at 9:32 AM ^
I think some Little Caesars orange would look great on the Wings home jerseys.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:43 AM ^
This is not good. Not only the ads, but hopefully they will not compromise classic designs by forcing the damn adidas three lines onto the uniforms. I’ve seen them destroy classic looking kits in both soccer and college football with those lines.
August 18th, 2015 at 12:20 PM ^
It would be criminal to see any Original Six uni plastered with ads. Absolutely criminal. The thought of a garish orange "Hot and Ready" emblazoned on the Wings jersey makes me ill.
EDIT: I guess my intense, dripping sarcasm was not properly digested by all in my post above.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 9:36 AM ^
politicians to do the same thing...
August 18th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^
I cant speak for everyone here but I know that i sure want to go out and buy things. For some reason I simply HAVE TO HAVE a Skoda, a Repower and I sure as hell want a Krrabunder Kantonalhaper right now.
With cream.
Unless it's a lawnmower or something. Then I'll wait.
August 18th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
...let me know and I'll buy twenty.
August 18th, 2015 at 4:56 PM ^
Skoda is a car company owned by VW and well known for sponsoring European hockey teams and the ice hockey world championship in the summer.
Repower is an electric company.
And the last one is a Swiss cantonal bank.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
Leave it to Bettman to make the worst decision possible.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
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August 18th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
I thought Dave Brandon was working for Toys R Us? Is he moonlighting for the NHL?
August 18th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
Why do people get so upset about ads on uniforms? How does it affect your enjoyment of the game in any appreciable way?
I could understand that you may not want to buy a jersey if it were cluttered with ads, but you could just buy some other type of team apparel in that case.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:57 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
They already do... swooshes, stripes, aligators, polo horses, etc...
August 18th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
If not, here. This is why. If you're OK with the NHL looking like this, either you hate the NHL or you are DB. This would make pretty much everyone stop watching the NHL.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
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August 18th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
if you discount a huge number of people. Oh, no wait. You're still incorrect.
August 18th, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^
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August 18th, 2015 at 12:21 PM ^
That one dude has "Siemens" on his jersey.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Also, these unis are a joke.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:52 AM ^
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August 18th, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^
I honestly think ads on jerseys is the hill us fans should die on. We just can't let it happen. Teams are raking in record profits from TV contracts, there's absolutely no need for this (except pure greed).
August 18th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:03 AM ^
Sports talk radio is the worst. The commercial per #HotTake ratio must be insane.
This opinion sponsored by BudLight through the Subway Fresh Take Hot Line.
August 18th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
Flo says you can't turn her off, she's everywhere. Flo broke my sports radio habit.
August 18th, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
Flo is love, Flo is life.
August 18th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
Have you NOT seen any other sports league in the world?! North Amercial's big 4 was/is the last on the globe not to have ads on jerseys.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
Let's keep it that way.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
So they can have a built in competitive advantage against the O6?
Why would that be good?
August 18th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
The Thrashers haven't even existed since 2011... which I guess only proves your point.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
Precicsely, Pink Grimace