Pet peeve of mine has come roaring back now that I seem to see even more bicyclists out than ever - why does seemingly every piece of lycra bicycle clothing have goddamn sponsors on it? I see dudes out with guts, they clearly aren’t competitive in any way, yet emblazoned on their tops are sponsors and logos, FRED MEYER, AMGEN, SOME CAR DEALERSHIP, all over their tops and shorts like companies are clamoring to be seen on them. Do you get these at some kind of amateur races, is this some kind of brag to show off you’ve been in a race? A Nike swoosh or the 3 stripe adidas logo I can understand, they made the clothes, but I don’t understand the other stuff and would personally feel like an asshole wearing stuff like that.
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Professional Cycling Team’s jerseys are covered with sponsors so that’s how the replica jerseys come. MLS jerseys come with the name the sponsors of the team on them. Look at a Premier League Football match some time and see how many sponsors they have on their kit. If baseball, football and hockey needed to make even more money they would allow sponsorships on their jerseys too, for some reason they haven’t done it so that’s what you are used to.
Ok that makes some sense. The NBA only just recently started allowing small sponsors on the armband area, but I have no idea if I bought a Damian Lillard jersey it would have a “Biofreeze” stripe on it like the players have now.
So these bicyclists I see are wearing bike team jerseys they bought somewhere? It seems to me like people here (Portland) on bicycles are either wearing normal clothes or lycra with sponsors all over them, maybe I’m weirded out because it seems like there’s no unsponsored, plain lycra stuff worn.
If it wasn’t for those sponsors in Europe no teams would survive in just about any sport nowadays… We’ve had Soccer related sponsorship for more years than I can remember.
The famous 1 was when
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mcewans_logo.gif
Decided they would sponsor our rivals of our city, big mistake and ruined the best selling lager in scotland by a mile for ever. Happened in the 80’s
Next up was CRSmith glazing sponsored both teams and sales were good.
It’s this. They don’t realize how regional and local those spots are.
I’m sure that makes up a big chunk of them. Some of the other ones probably don’t want to pay for reebok or nike gear and it may be more of a dad type move.
Not yet. It’s on 2K but all the jerseys at the NBA store lack them. When I googled his jersey for sale none of the images showed it either. (Other than game-worn obv.)
Nike and Adidas aren’t down for the free advertising. Sega probably doesn’t gaf and their customer base wants that realism.
One difference with Euro sports is the advertiser is like the bulk of the jersey space.
Cycling team jerseys are expensive, and usually more interesting than regular jerseys. One of the huge benefits of being a cyclist is getting to wear all that ridiculous kit, even you wouldn’t fit into a European XXL.
I guess one persons huge benefit can be another persons no fucking thank you.
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Who hasn’t wanted to be a sausage link?
Fun fact, the first brand to sponsor a football team in the Bundesliga was Jägermeister:
https://mast-jaegermeister.de/en/1970-1987/
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When I wore a (non-branded) biking shirt, my wife was like, “Oh, you look like one of those douchebags!” When I came down in my new branded bib shorts only, she burst out laughing. So, yeah, not a huge benefit socially. The shorts do have padding, though, so that’s good. And the shirt is neon yellow for visibility, and has pockets in the back, and a zipper in the front, so kind of functional, other than the sausage casing aspect.
This is good.
My hot take is people on road cycles not wearing cycling kit look stupider than people who are in full kit.
Kind of curious on takes on this AITA.
I have my thoughts, but I am neither religious nor Jewish, so was curious what others thought.
Who tf has a dinner party in the middle of a pandemic?
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Wireless Grinder’s brother and that couple.
I think you make a good point. The storyteller is the asshole for inviting people to a party to begin with. Nothing else matters.
Nah. Everyone gets asshole points for the party. Hosts for having it, guests for showing up. I suppose Host is a little worse in this regard.
On the food issue the guests are the assholes.
So on aggregate assholery, I’ve got the guests taking the prize.
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They’re all assholes for believing any God gives a fuck about what they eat.
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The only correct response here…
Both parties look shitty, which is usually bad news for the OP since they get to frame it as they see fit. Advantage: Brother, imo. I would bet that “we have always respected that” is omitting a ton of scripture from the sermon, so to speak.