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Arbitrary
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potentially the worst jersey I've ever seen. Looks like it was designed in MS Paint. |
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Give it five years. Then 5-10 after that the Lakers wordmark will just be a patch where the ad is now. |
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ToastedMuffins
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| VegasLakerFan wrote: |
Give it five years. Then 5-10 after that the Lakers wordmark will just be a patch where the ad is now. |
Gotta get that knee-jerk slippery-slope mentality out there.
Cause there's absolutely no way that the NBA might just keep the ad patches the way they are now going forward permanently. |
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El Seano
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Since I'm British it's kind of funny seeing fans (not just Laker fans) freaking out over these tiny little sponsor patches. I guess it's just from watching football my whole life where the club badge is like the size of your palm and then there's just a gigantic company name across the center.
Sorry to say but if there is money to be made they're gonna do it. Another 10 or 15 years and NBA jerseys won't look worlds different from Euroleague Jerseys. I mean why not? I think the Celtics get 5 mill a season for their patch and it takes absolutely no effort on their part. These clubs are businesses too.
Are there any American sports teams on the stock market like some football teams? |
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VegasLakerFan
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| ToastedMuffins wrote: | | VegasLakerFan wrote: |
Give it five years. Then 5-10 after that the Lakers wordmark will just be a patch where the ad is now. |
Gotta get that knee-jerk slippery-slope mentality out there. |
Right, just like you gotta get that obligatory corporate defense out there.
"Please, take my eyeballs so companies can make more money!"
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Cause there's absolutely no way that the NBA might just keep the ad patches the way they are now going forward permanently. |
Yeah, that's exactly how ad creep works. It "creeps" by never changing.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ad%20creep
Just like the NBA has always kept ads confined to TV and Radio and never let them get on the sideline banners, backboards, backboard supports, on the court or (now) on the uniforms.
See you in five years. |
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VegasLakerFan
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| El Seano wrote: | | Since I'm British it's kind of funny seeing fans (not just Laker fans) freaking out over these tiny little sponsor patches. I guess it's just from watching football my whole life where the club badge is like the size of your palm and then there's just a gigantic company name across the center. |
The thing about football is that you get to watch non-stop action for 45 or so minutes at a time. It's like watching a movie, you get to actually focus and get lost in what you're watching. That said it sucks for sponsors because there's little time to get their advertisements in. And broadcasting games is expensive, so advertisements on the kits themselves is a fair compromise.
A basketball game goes to commercial every time one of the teams calls a timeout, which is fine, but it also has mandatory timeouts just for the purpose of showing more commercials. Sometimes you even get animated advertisements during free-throws that bleed over into gameplay. |
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El Seano
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| VegasLakerFan wrote: |
The thing about football is that you get to watch non-stop action for 45 or so minutes at a time. It's like watching a movie, you get to actually focus and get lost in what you're watching. That said it sucks for sponsors because there's little time to get their advertisements in. And broadcasting games is expensive, so advertisements on the kits themselves is a fair compromise.
A basketball game goes to commercial every time one of the teams calls a timeout, which is fine, but it also has mandatory timeouts just for the purpose of showing more commercials. Sometimes you even get animated advertisements during free-throws that bleed over into gameplay. |
You guys have no idea how good your commercials are though. I'll literally find an NFL stream every Sunday WITH ads so I can laugh at them. Except that Neil Diamond Hyundai thing, that can go squarely to hell. Dilly Dilly! |
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ocho
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| El Seano wrote: | Since I'm British it's kind of funny seeing fans (not just Laker fans) freaking out over these tiny little sponsor patches. I guess it's just from watching football my whole life where the club badge is like the size of your palm and then there's just a gigantic company name across the center.
Sorry to say but if there is money to be made they're gonna do it. Another 10 or 15 years and NBA jerseys won't look worlds different from Euroleague Jerseys. I mean why not? I think the Celtics get 5 mill a season for their patch and it takes absolutely no effort on their part. These clubs are businesses too.
Are there any American sports teams on the stock market like some football teams? |
I agree with you about where this is headed. As soon as they opened the door for jersey ads this became an inevitability. I would bet money they are counting on people getting used to it (helps to start small, make them bigger on D-League uniforms etc) the way soccer fans are used to it.
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The shark has been jumped. Agree 100% that eventually NBA jerseys will look like European futbol unis. Inevitable.
Thanks Adam Silver! |
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