Corporate sponsorship for schools - logos on uniforms?

[SeanFitzRef]

You mean like this?



(Best pic I could find, but you get the idea.)

[RookieDude]

I don't remember a lot of folks getting upset when I played little league with "JOE'S PLUMBING" or "TED'S BARBERSHOP" or "APPOLLO SHEETMETAL" or whatever pasted on my uniform.
In fact, parents appreciated the sponsorships very much.

Maybe there will be a time when H.S. Sports need this extra revenue. I don't think I'm such a purist that a few advertisements are going to alter my memories of the game.
Afterall, that's what we go to the games for...the memories, the excitement, the competition. A few ads on a jersey shouldn't affect the game much IMO. (Heck, look at NASCAR...it hasn't affected that sport's popularity)

I have to say...if "KODAK" (for example) wanted to pay my association's dues, one camp a year, a complete uniform, and maybe a fee to be divided among our members...I'd probably vote to wear their logo...wouldn't you?

[ChrisSportsFan]

Everybody would have to go get their own sponsorship and dang-it, the only person I could get to pony up was an eye doctor!

[26 Year Gap]

Originally posted by ChrisSportsFan
Everybody would have to go get their own sponsorship and dang-it, the only person I could get to pony up was an eye doctor!

Hope you went with the contacts instead of the coke-rims.

[FrankHtown]

If just putting a logo on a HS shirt was all that was involved, that'd be OK. BUT once you start taking money, it won't be long before the Nike rep tells the coach " I think you should be playing "X" more than you do now." Because "X" is their player of the future. So what does the coach do then?

I think it just dirties the whole thing.

[PS2Man]

There is a reason that the NF and NCAA have uniform rules. That might be the reason you see the rules that Chuck is so against.

[cmckenna]

If they allowed sponsors on the official's uniforms, unfortunatley this would be the one....

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by cmckenna
If they allowed sponsors on the official's uniforms, unfortunatley this would be the one....

You got that right! Although, most of the objects thrown by coaches at the target would just go "over the back", so we probably wouldn't get hit.

[26 Year Gap]

They would throw another for the 'and one'.

[Nevadaref]

For the pro level, I don't have a problem with the corporate logos on the uniforms. Of course, I am used to watching non-American pro soccer and those teams have corporate decals all over their game jerseys.

Now on the HS and NCAA level, I think that money should not be a central issue. Therefore, I don't believe that corporations should have their logos on the game jerseys.

Just my opinion.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by Nevadaref


Now on the HS and NCAA level, I think that money should not be a central issue.

Unfortunately, here in Oregon, money is a central issue.