After the whole Tiger Woods Car Crash in His Own Driveway fiasco, fans are starting to doubt Tiger’s sincerity. The website that previously proclaimed Tiger to be the next “messiah” is starting to doubt the likelihood he is anything but a mere mortal. A few blogger’s compared him to Clinton during the Lewinsky trial.

However, his golf merchandise is still sky high. After all, Tiger Woods is arguably the best known athlete in the world. With 14 Majors wins under his belt, he’s one of the best performing athletes as well. So despite his recent brush with the law, I’m still going to grab my golf tees and golf bag, hit the green and pretend like I’m as good as the best player on earth- Tiger Woods.

For more Tiger Woods entertainment check out PromoVideoChannel to see a video of Tiger walking on water.

Posted: November 30th, 2009 under General.
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Sky Mall does it again with these kooky Forest Faces. The first time I ever saw tree faces wasn’t in a catalog though, it was on the PA Turnpike. On the trees next to the ticket booth, each Steelers’ face was looking up at me complete with Jerseys tacked to the trees (I kid you not).

Being a Browns fan myself, it was a little hard to handle. However, I fell in love with the idea and found these buddies in a Sky Mall catalog on my last vacation.

Add your personal flair with customized hats, scarves and uniforms as well! Pretty soon there will be entire armies of sports-player-trees!

Posted: November 23rd, 2009 under General.
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Alex Rodriguez has been getting a lot of flak lately. First, he had a tough World Series. Secondly, US Weekly put out a story that he has two custom paintings of himself portrayed as a centaur hanging above his bed.

That seems to be the story that stuck. After the blog, Big League Stew created the centaur image above, MTV news took the image for an interview. Then, they asked Kate Hudson (A-Rod’s new girlfriend) if she had seen posters like this hanging over his bed.

Well, Kate didn’t like that question much but lots of other people did! You can find an A-Rod Centaur shirt for sale online or join the crowd with customized bumper stickers.

Posted: November 19th, 2009 under General.
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Ok, so this is awesome. If someone would have told me they were going to make a basketball backpack I would’ve scoffed at them and then walked away.

But this is incredible now that I see it! I love the design and practicality of it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anywhere that sells similar bags yet so we’ll all have to sit and wait while the manufacturers get on that.

In the mean time, promotional basketballs are a pretty awesome way to hold yourself over. You can print your name or company logo right on a customized ball. Then, when these bags come out you’ll be able to hook your ball in and sport your name for the world to see.

Posted: November 16th, 2009 under General.
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50 days until the Rose Bowl. College football is heating up; there’s talk about Iowa’s disheartening loss and Ohio State’s impossibly good record. But the thing that really gets me is the schwag.

Thousands of dollars of schwag items will go to players on any championship team. The best part is- you don’t even have to win. Just get to the game and suddenly the world is yours for the taking.

For example, last year’s championship teams were offered a Sony DVD player, fossil watch and ogio backpack along with hundreds of dollars worth of other merchandise.

I wish the fans for those games got the same sort of giveaway pack! Could you imagine?

Posted: November 12th, 2009 under General.
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The Onion is now considering taking it’s sports segment to television. For anyone who’s not familiar with The Onion, it’s like Saturday Night Live on newsprint. It’s satirical, imaginative and, sometimes, just plain odd.

Which is exactly how they are planning on doing the t.v. show as well. Check out this clip for a little taster of the show (unless you’re a Clippers fan, in which case you should never, EVER watch this video). Then you can buy a promotional t-shirt on The Onion website or snatch up one of these cool magnets.

Posted: November 9th, 2009 under General.
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Before the last game of the World Series even began, thousands of shirts were printed by the MLB declaring the Phillies champions. After all, depending on the outcome, merchandise must be available for either teams’ fans immediately after the winning game.

Which is why sports associations print up jerseys, shirts and hats with each team and the World Series information printed on them early in the series.

So what happened to all of that merchandise after the Phillies were beat to a pulp yesterday? It was donated to children in poverty ridden countries like those in Africa and Southeast Asia. World Vision teamed up with the NFL and MLB years ago and now collects and donates misprinted shirts after major championship games.

Which should give temporary relief to any heartbroken Phillies fans. Breathe easy because somewhere out there, a little girl thinks your team won in 2009.

Boy, is she wrong.

Posted: November 5th, 2009 under General.
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Brett Favre returned to the Packers stadium for the first time after leaving the team in 2007. He now plays for their largest (and most hated) rival- the Minnesota Vikings. So, like most slighted cities would respond, he was greeted with a raucous response. Prior to the game an airplane banner circled the stadium requesting that he “Retire 4 Good”. Once the plays started running fans had more gusto on the booing end of things than the cheering one. As the game wore on it only got worse; the irritated shouts increased (as did the Vikings score) and the angry schwag, including posters, banners and shirts was proudly displayed for the world to see.

Among my favorite schwag items were the Favre-Fedro sign, and a poster that read “True Legends Don’t Wear Purple” (written in green, of course!).

However, nothing beats the creative guy wearing an altered Packers jersey. ““It’s like going into church on Sunday and the priest says, ‘Everybody go home, Jesus has now sided with the devil,’” said Tom Fields, whose Favre jersey now has “JUDAS” on the back and big red slashes through the 4s.”

The things people come up with when sports are involved…

You just have to love it.

Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under General.
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