Everybody’s doing it, so no one gets jinxed
When Mets Police and Deadspin noted that the Jets were pre-selling AFC Champions gear, I chuckled and posted it on Facebook, but I didn’t dwell on it much more than that. It seemed a bit presumptive on the one hand, but I also figured it made some sense for the team to get ahead of the curve — and ahead of Modell’s and Sports Authority and the like — and maybe get a few fans to commit a few days ahead of time.
And then yesterday, a feature about Rex Ryan and two of his assistants in the New York Times noted the gear on sale at the end of the story — and also said that the Colts, Saints and Vikings also had conference champions gear (with the Super Bowl logo) available for pre-order. So then it was no longer a Jets thing — it’s an NFL thing. I don’t know if the league mandated the pre-sale, encouraged it or simply made the gear (or at least the images of them) available for the teams’ respective online shops. And of course there have already been shipments of the apparel to the physical team stores, the Superdome and Lucas Oil Stadium and the local sporting goods stores in the greater metropolitan areas of Minneapolis, Indianapolis, New Jersey/New York and New Orleans — all so that they can begin selling and distributing the souvenirs as soon as the game goes final (not to mention pass out the hats and T-shirts to the players on the field).
NFL jerseys– the Great Transformation The new football season begins with the mock draft for die hard fans and fantasy GM’s alike. The golden rule of the NFL Draft is that unless you already have a “Franchise” signal caller you do not pass on one, which should go without saying, if you have the chance to aquire a nfl draft pick that’s a team leader you had better give thanks to the Football GOD”s for they may have saved a lot of jobs. Drafting a franchise quaterback has the ability to launch a team into playoff mode for five to ten years if the skill positions are filled adequately and the “O” line can stay in front of at least one defending player. How many times have you seen your teams’ QB sacked and all the O linemen are standing in front of the D linemen as they’re getting off the quarterback, all they would need is a red towel and we’d be in for a bull fight.