M Den selling customized jersey's with current player names/numbers
The asterisk makes me think it's definitely NIL related - they're working it out with individuals (could be a blanket deal, player gets x% per jersey or something) and players need to agree to the terms one at a time.
The asterisk references a footnote stating that additional nameplates and numbers will be released as they become available. So the asterisk isn’t directly NIL-related, but it certainly seems like NIL has made it possible.
Sounds like it's an individual, not group deal. So they can only release jerseys with the players that have negotiated and signed.
Without the ability for players, teams, and conferences to sign group deals, there will be a ton of work for shops like this to work with each player individually. Also, it seems likely there will be holdouts, like Barry Bonds in MLB video games, who doesn't give NIL permission for whatever reason and thus get excluded.
I would have found this to be pretty cool when I was 20. But I always feel icky at the OSU games when I see 50 year old men in Scarlet and Gray jerseys with a college kid's name on the back.
I'm all for the players making money, but definitely agree. Not for grown ups...
Seeing people of any age in OSU gear in general makes me feel icky.
What about....
immediate neg.
she killed her kid. this image should never be used .... ever.
She killed her kid?
What's the story? Who is she?
Casey Anthony
Oh, thx. Yeah get that psycho-skank off the board.
Couldn't agree more.
Let's hope that's the last time she's seen on the MGoBoard.
Seriously...do you live here?
1. OSU jersey
2. Duck lips
3. "Can I speak to the manger" haircut
3. It's Casey Anthony
So yeah, hard pass.
Yeah -- this would have been sweet back in college, but I'm a strict follower of the can't-wear-a-younger-man's-name-on-your-back rule with jerseys.
I had to retire my Aaron Hernandez and Rae Caruth jerseys.
'Avoid convicted felons' is another rule one should consider when wearing sports merchandise.
do you own any other jersey's with player's names? I am curious about the causation/correlation connection you seem to have. Did you have a reggie rogers jersey?
After Hernandez and Caruth, I got a Tebow jersey, because I thought it might be me too.
Thankfully Tim hasn't killed anyone ...
Yet!
Yeah, which means at this point I just wear jerseys with the names of Supreme Court justices.
And with the current makeup of the Supreme Court, there's not really many options that could go on a blue jersey.
I am too, with the exception of two: a Tom Brady NE Pats Jersey my ex bought me years ago and a Calvin Johnson Jersey I found dirt cheap on the markdown rack after he retired.
Otherwise my jerseys I've owned over the years have all been of players older than or around the same age as me: Tom Harmon, Al Kaline, Norm Cash, Rick Leach, Anthony Carter, and Billy Sims.
I follow a rule that you can’t wear a jersey of a player that you are older than. Like you said, kind of weird.
Wouldn't that mean that, at a certain age, you can only wear retired players' jerseys?
That doesn't make sense to me. Like...I can't wear the jersey of my NBA team's star because I'm in my 30's and he's in his 20's?
I might agree that it's different with college kids who aren't true professionals yet, but even then being a fan of a team includes being a fan of the players, and wearing a player's jersey is a showing of that fandom.
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think age should have much to do with who you support by buying their jersey.
That's what I do -- like Grant Hill for the Pistons, Sanders for the Lions, Yzerman / Konstantinov for the wings, etc.
I agree. I don't understand the root of the notion that you can't wear a jersey to show your support of someone because of your age. Can someone who holds this belief explain why they find it unsettling?
Paging any Spartan to explain the rules of "who can be a fan" and why one of them is that you have to have attended school there.
My issue was always that you had to literally have a customized jersey made for college players. Paying extra to have another man’s name put on a jersey is... weird. Especially when those players don’t see any of that money.
Jerseys/shirts being pre-made with player names and those players receiving a cut of the profits is different and something I don’t really see an issue with.
This makes some sense to me.
With the implementation of NIL rights, it kind of screws over the players if the unspoken rule is that adults can't wear anybody's jersey.
I have/had the same issue with regards to compensating players. It's the idea that you can't wear a jersey of someone younger than you that stumps me.
As an adult, wearing a Michigan jersey with a player's name on it is much more normal than stalking HS recruits on Twitter. That's just me, and I don't have (do) either one.
I agree. I prefer the no-name jersey. Also, my rule for NFL jersey is no name of a current player because they can change teams at any point. I go for retired HOF players. Of course I only have one, a 1976 Jack Lambert throw back.
I used to feel this way since the only way to have a customized jersey was to make it yourself (and the kid didn't get a cut). But since the players are now getting paid for jersey sales I am much less against it than I was before.
SEC fans are really bad at this rule as well. At the 2019 Sugar Bowl I saw so many Fromm, Nauta , Chubb, and Blankenship jerseys on dads with goatees.
I have a no name michigan #1 jersey. still looks great. haven't worn it in years though. not sure i could fit into it. lol.
That’s why I own two classics, Woodson and Desmond.
Feel very much the same way unless you are the kid's family or a close friend of their's. Otherwise I'd say just wait until they go pro. Then it feels considerably less weird.
I think this is one of the weirdest beliefs in football but seems to be widespread. It's just a jersey. Someone likes that player. Cool. Isn't it weirder spending hours on a Michigan blog and reading about what 16 and 17 year recruits think about Michigan?
I barely wear my jersey anymore and it's a Jarrett Irons jersey so I guess I pass the adult test, but seems like such a strange thing to judge. Wearing a jersey is like the 1,149th weirdest thing sports fan(atic)s do.
I don't get it either. I own a couple Michigan jerseys and I occasionally wear them to watch games in. I'm not wearing it to the grocery store on a Tuesday in March, but on a gameday, why is a jersey a big deal? It's the reason they make and sell them and I don't see how it's different than a shirt that says Michigan on it. I also don't see why a name on the back makes it any different either. Fans of every sport wear jerseys from the team they cheer for, this is not new or uncommon.
Is it really much different for NFL player's jersey? Don't get wrong, it's a pretty adolescent thing to wear jerseys. Any grown man doing so is a bit off. But, I don't see much difference between wearing a #5 UM jersey versus wearing Peppers Browns or Giants jersey. Is a few years age some magical criteria? I don't believe it is. Since it's no longer about money, that's not the issue either. So, if folks idk under 30 want to wear jerseys with college guys names on them have at. Anyone over 30 wearing them needs to question their priorities.
I’m 42 years old and I occasionally wear a Michigan jersey to a game or at home on game day. It’s harmless , so stop with all the bs judgement.
stop with all the bs judgement.
I’ve noticed a trend among people today that are increasingly adverse to any sort of criticism and judgement from others. There is an increasing pressure today to avoid all negativity, adversity, judgement, and challenge. This is not good IMO. While it may help in the short term, we are robbing ourselves of resiliency skills. The world is never going to stop being challenging and people are never going to stop judging others and trying to get them to is misguided. Instead the focus should be on accepting those uncomfortable feelings by working our ourselves and our resiliency. Uncomfortable feelings are normal and have value. They are not to be avoided or sheltered from. It’s human and normal to judge. What isn’t normal is to be overly affected by it. That is rooted in a lack of resiliency because people misguidedly sheltered folks from it or tried to censor others. That is not realistic long term.
Moral of the story, don't worry about what random Joe on the internet says. If that's what you want to do, great. Do you. But, also accept others may think it's silly. Don't try to censor them from saying so. Realize you don't care what they think and they have a right to think (and say) it.
But - It's still okay to tweet to high school-aged football recruits, right?
What if a grown man wears a jersey with the name of a player from his era? If I'm wearing a throwback jersey that reads "Carter" or "Lytle," is that acceptable?
Just trying to prevent the icky factor.
Do what you want and don't let a person on a message board you've never met influence your decision. There's nothing "icky" about wearing a football jersey to a football game.
Amen to this. I don't base my decisions (on jerseys or pretty much anything else) on the opinion of some anonymous stranger on the internet.
(My original comment was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek, but it didn't come across that way. Oops.)
Do what you want and don't let a person on a message board you've never met influence your decision. There's nothing "icky" about wearing a football jersey to a football game.
Agreed don't be influenced by random internet people, but don't try to censor what they say and act like they won't judge you if they disagree.
No Daxton Hill available. He must be transferring! ?
Please don't even joke about such things!
Hayes wasn’t available either. I wonder if the top guys have more incentive to negotiate. Hayes and Hill are going to sell more jerseys than Hussung (Kicker, #93.) An extra dime per jersey could be significant for them. The long snapper (Wagner, #49) is probably just going to take whatever he is offered and be glad to get something.