Wasn't trying to say you were wrong. I don't know how much the gap would widen since I'm sure the current advertising gap is already quite wide.
Sponsorhip Patches - Who would you like to see on Jazz's jersey?!?!
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Wasn't trying to say you were wrong. I don't know how much the gap would widen since I'm sure the current advertising gap is already quite wide.
Hitman
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t.work
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I'm not 100% sure it's $100M per season for EACH team but that's what I remember hearing. Let me go back and watch it again.
Okay, so I didn't watch it. There's no way it would add $100M for EACH team. Collectively, as a league, they predict they'll make $100M per season.
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The Beginning of the End..
UGLI baby
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Count Chocula sponsoring the teal jersey team. Nice.
Hitman
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Heh. That's actually "Crocodiles" - it's a picture from the Cairns Taipans vs Townsville Crocodiles game, aka "The Reptile Rumble", in the Australasian NBL. They're neighbouring cities (kinda like Miami and Orlando) and both have House of M as a sponsor. At the other end of the scale, a diet food company sponsored the Melbourne "Lite 'n' Easy" Tigers.
At least the sponsors' logos have been toned down in recent years. It used to be that the entire front of the jersey would be a giant billboard. I tried to find a particularly bad example our local team sported one year, but either my google-fu is weak, or no-one was game to put the abomination on the web. I suspect the latter.
Then there was the time a milk company took over from the beer company. They sold full-cream milk in blue cartons, and lite milk in yellow cartons. As part of the deal, we changed from our traditional home red, away white strip (the home team wears colors here), to a home blue, away yellow combo. Since then we have gone back to red and now back to blue, and the sponsor's logo is much more subdued.
Hitman
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Also, the NBL league as a whole is sponsored, and one season the sponsor was Hummer. This led to a funny exchange during the NBL All-Star game, when the winner of the three-point shoot-out was being presented with their prize. The shoot-out was pretty uninspiring with more misses than makes, and the award presenter was finding it difficult to speak with any enthusiasm about the contest as he handed over the trophy to the winner. Then he looked down at his running sheet, did a double-take, looked up at the nearby cheergirls holding the final part of the prize, grinned, and said with some gusto, "And now, here's a couple of cheergirls to give you a little hummer!" at which point they gave him the toy car they were holding.
asian_roger
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How about:
Haha, soccer... Go Xango's!
That's kinda funny because it doesn't look that bad. If companies do sponsor advertisements on jerseys, the designers are going to have to be very careful about how they going to do it. The McDonald's examples are just terrible looking. Would fans have to buy jersey's with the same design? Ugh.
That was good for a laugh and a rep.
Stifle Tower
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Well, Bloomberg will never let McDonald's sponsor the NY teams. But he has taken bribes to allow 7-11 to continue to sell Big Gulps, so I'm assuming that would be a natural tie-in.
If you divvy that up, that means teams over the course of a year would make about $1.5 million. That's twice the salary of a league minimum player! What a killer deal for the NBA, and all they had to do is be the first major pro team sport in the US to sell away what little dignity they had left.