View topic - NFL Team Sells out. Corporate Logo on jersey

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Sure it's only practice jersey, but htis is how it starts.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/07/15/colts.ap/index.html

The Indianapolis Colts are adding a sponsor logo to their practice jerseys.

The team said Wednesday it has finalized an agreement for players to wear an Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance patch when they open training camp Aug. 3 in Terre Haute.

Colts spokesman Craig Kelley says the deal was rolled into Farm Bureau's current naming rights contract for the team's Indianapolis practice facility, which runs another five years. Terms of the deal, first reported by The Indianapolis Star, were not disclosed.

NFL owners voted in March to permit the sponsor patches. The league, however, does not allow corporate logos on game jerseys.

The New York Jets will have the logo of Atlantic Health, a New Jersey-based health care provider, on their practice jerseys. Teams including Houston and Green Bay were exploring similar options

[SteelPower Profile]

It just matter of time and it will look like a soccer jersey, and it will happen faster in this economy.

[Coke Oven Profile]

Didn't Jerry Jones get hammered a while back for trying that sorta shit with the cowboys?

[steelerette Profile]

Sure it's only practice jersey, but htis is how it starts.

Yep, before you know it, they'll look like cars on the NASCAR circuit. Golfers are already on their way to that point.

[steelcitymetal Profile]

nah.. goodell is smart enough not to let that onto game jerseys.