NFL

Here's a good read

https://defector.com/fuck-fanatics-and-fuck-michael-rubin

Meanwhile the jersey you would have purchased from the NFL team shop is no longer made by Nike. It is made in a Chinese factory by Fanatics and is little better than a polyester shirt with screen pressed numbers. No stitches to be found at all.

Fanatics is the worst thing to ever happen to sports merchandise.

A crazier thing is the NHL not making adidas jerseys available to the public

People absolutely buy them. I think a lot of it comes from gift giving and people buying them when they're at the game. If your spending close to $1k on tickets, food, lodging, travel whatever to go see your team play, $170 for a cool keep sake you get to keep forever isn't that much.

I agree its expensive but I still have every jersey I've ever bought or been given. I just gave a Terrell Davis jersey I got as a kid to my niece who is just getting into football.

Plus ebay exists. You can find tons of high quality jerseys for older players for under $50 and many for under $25. I'd rather do that than DH Gate, personally.

If you care about quality at all I think and don't mind the players being a litter older, ebay is really your best friend. You can find high quality, stitched jerseys often for under $50.

Honestly for $170 you are getting a knock off quality jersey. The elites are cool but are about double the price.

That being said, I think a lot of people buy these when they attend games and want something to take home and keep forever. Personally, I would not buy a new standard jersey from the NFL because of the chasm between quality and price.

I also don't fuck with DH Gate because it confuses me and don't know how to tell who produces decent knock offs.

I just buy a nice plain black shirt or hoodie with no branding or design on it. Super comfortable. Still rocking my teams colors. No fear of whoever is on my jersey to get traded or go crazy. It's a great catch all.

I haven't bought a jersey in like 20 years.

Fanatics are exploited.

I have an adidas NHL jersey that cost $300 CAD and the quality is amazing, a fanatics one that cost $175 and a Chinese one that cost $40 and the Chinese one is better quality than fanatics, there’s a few minor flaws but at least one of the numbers wasn’t peeling off… it’s fuckin embarrassing

Knock off gear, ironically, is premium quality shit

Oh wow, never realized the change (hadn't bought a new jersey since Mahomes).

Where would one find a good quality jersey these days then?

I broke down and bought a Jaylen Waddle jersey at Hard Rock Stadium for around $150. Less than 2 years later the colors from the name/number etc is already starting to peel off. It's nice to wear on gameday, but I don't see myself ever buying another one.

Shoot us that link fammmmnn

I really don't see a scenario where I buy any official NFL gear ever again. Why would I pay 5x the price for an inferior product in order to support a multi-billion dollar corporation when I disagree with roughly 95% of the decisions they make? It's knockoffs or nothing for me from now on.

Honestly, I think it's getting back to the days of the late 2000s and early 2010s when people were buying a ton of knock off jerseys. What is interesting is what does the future of Fanatics look like? Their quality is so poor, that a lot of fans, from across the major sports leagues, are just looking for alternate options in order to avoid buying from them. How long until their profits start plummeting and the leagues boot them out the door? What Fanatics is doing is a recipe for disaster. As a card collector, what they've done to Topps is a travesty. Quality control essentially doesn't exist anymore, it's overproduced, it's overpriced, and the release dates are all over, where 2022 stuff was still coming out this summer.

I’m just done with it. Sold my collection of vapors on ebay last week.

Do it. Just do it with a visa gift card not your real CC. Funny thing is your quality from a knock off is going to be much better than the fan shop now. More people need to buy the knock offs to get improved quality from the real stuff.

Wifey and I are about to come from Aus to the US to our first game, I assume Walmart sells terrible quality jerseys? Was thinking about getting some there before the cowboys game and also the Dallas stars game we will go to..

I got a couple of dh gate ones in the mail the other day, and I'm happy with em.

Holy shit I did not realize they don’t sell stitched ones anymore wtf lol

Watch out homie u/nfl been lurking alot more in this sub lately