NFL Discussion Thread: Pats win SB XLIX. Offseason begins

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ATL fans walkin around like Hans and Franz right now. 
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As good as the Falcons looked last night they looked that bad (if not worse) last week in Cincy with no AJ Green on the field. Too early to make a judgement yet IMO

Think they're fool's gold, honestly. Oline and DLine are pretty weak. Shows how bad the Bucs are for sure.
 

NFL to Tone Down the Pink, Play Up the Camo

Yesterday afternoon I took part in a panel discussion as part of an NYU sports business class. One of the other panelists was the buyer for a well-known chain of sporting goods stores — let’s call him Mr. Buyer — and he had some very interesting things to say, chief among them the news that the NFL will be dialing back the throttle a bit this year on Pinktober. This has nothing to do with the recent domestic violence issues that have been in the news — Mr. Buyer said the league had already planned to soft-pedal the pink months ago. There’ll still be some pink, but not as much. It won’t be used for any nationally televised games, for example.

On the other hand, Mr. Buyer said the NFL plans a bigger push this year for G.I. Joevember. He didn’t specify what the bigger push would involve, but it can’t be good.

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Other tidbits from Mr. Buyer included the following:

• The NBA’s sleeved jerseys are not selling well.

• In general, jersey sales strongly correlate with winning — the better a team does, the more jerseys it sells. The big exception is Maryland football, whose jerseys sell regardless of how the team is performing.

• In terms of NFL merch, Reebok was much easier to do business with than Nike is, because Nike “is all about Nike.”

• Related to the above: Nike doesn’t like to promote non-Nike athletes. For example, they don’t like to push Robert Griffin III jerseys, because Griffin has a deal with Adidas.

• Mr. Buyer nonetheless wishes NFL owners would turn Nike loose on NFL uniforms, because “we’d sell a ton of them.” He doesn’t expect that to happen, though, because NFL owners are too tradition-bound.

• Mr. Buyer doesn’t think Nike will make a run at the MLB uniform contract, for two reasons: (1) MLB requires that all of its on-field uniforms (the ones actually worn by the players, not the retail authentics) be made in the USA, and Nike wouldn’t want to do that. (2) Nike is already getting good brand exposure from its MLB undershirt contract, because of all those collar logos. In fact, Mr. Buyer says customers routinely call his stores asking for “that new Nike Mets jersey” or “that new Nike Pirates jersey,” because the undershirt collars make people mistakenly think that Nike makes the jerseys.

• Regarding the snafu with the Eagles’ green jerseys: With the Eagles wearing white at home and also wearing white for at least some road games, Mr. Buyer worries that he won’t have enough white Eagles jerseys in stock. His biggest fear is that the Eagles will win their first six games wearing white, because then they’ll probably keep wearing white for the rest of the season and everyone will want to buy a white jersey and he’ll be screwed.

• Mr. Buyer often has to engage in “blind buying” — ordering jerseys even though he doesn’t know what they’ll look like. Case in point: He had to order a bunch of Washington Capitals jerseys for the upcoming Winter Classic game, but the Reebok catalog didn’t include a visual of the jersey — it just said “TBD” (“to be determined”). The unveiling for that jersey is slated for next week, but Mr. Buyer still hasn’t seen what it looks like.

• Socks like these have been very popular lately, but Mr. Buyer thinks socks “may be the next tech bubble,” so he’s not ordering too many of them.

• Mr. Buyer hopes the NBA doesn’t put advertising patches on its jerseys. He already has to worry about players getting traded or injured or arrested (all of which can leave him stuck with worthless inventory), so he doesn’t want the added complication of corporate brands thrown into the mix. Just asking for trouble, he says.

• Mr. Buyer says Under Armour will never be able to recoup the financial investment they had to make in order to land the Notre Dame contract, at least not in merch sales. The deal was more about establishing UA’s credibility as a national player on a par with Nike.

• Signs of a generational shift: Sales of soccer “hard goods” (i.e,. balls and other equipment) are outpacing baseball sales.

There was probably more, but that’s as much as I can remember.
 
Too early to tell. Just last Sunday they looked mediocre against Cincinnati
Mediocre is putting it lightly. 

Quite a few Bengals' article I've been reading with player quotes that seem to agree with Hue being an upgrade over Gruden. Even the QB coach alluded to the "new atmosphere" and "accountability" that Hue has created. Definitely prefer him to Gruden. Emphasis on running the ball is what the AFC North is all about. 
 
Y'all really can't get it through your heads that if they annoy the **** outta you but you keep mentioning the Falcons and how you feel about em, they're just gonna keep pissing you off :lol:
 
Quoted three different people in three separate posts.

The feels are out this morning.


don't worry he'll be gone by week 8, ill give my mans credit he did show up when we lost to the 9ers to talk **** to Panthers people.
 
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Guess I didn't realize Hester has only been in the league since 2006. Dude's only 31, I thought he was just a fresh 35 :lol:
 
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