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HuckleB

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11. Who cares?

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #8)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 01:35 AM

Mar 2012

The Portland Timbers now have a 3rd jersey which harkens back to the NASL days of the 1970s, and it has the Alaska Airlines logo from that era.

How is that not slightly ok? Especially when most other sports are struggling to keep their games going "fast enough" to allow for more ads?

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NBA debating whether to sell ad space on players' uniforms [View all] marmar Mar 2012 OP

They do it in soccer.. Upton Mar 2012 #1

Yeah, that's the problem. HuckleB Mar 2012 #2

If there's money to be made, they'll do it... joeybee12 Mar 2012 #5

Indeed. HuckleB Mar 2012 #6

Advertisements on HS football fields were approved this year. Renew Deal Mar 2012 #9

I think ads make uniforms look ugly JonLP24 Mar 2012 #3

The problem is that those long breaks didn't exist before the age of television. HuckleB Mar 2012 #10

This from the league that wouldn't allow the Grizzlies to call themselves the Memphis Express KamaAina Mar 2012 #4

+1 HuckleB Mar 2012 #7

I don't think they should do it. Renew Deal Mar 2012 #8

Who cares? HuckleB Mar 2012 #11