re: NBA Jerseys: Are ads on the way?

Yep.


I'm not crazy about the corporate takeover of stadiums either. Maybe I'm old school but not everything has to be for sale or whored out.

Greed turns what makes something good and unique into the same old shite, undifferentiated, polluted, and ineffective. I point to people that get themselves tatted with sleeves a chest or back full of tats. I appreciate them for their artistic value, but all of those people pretty much look cookie cutter when they were trying to be individualistic.

The corporate monster knows nothing but growing and growing and if you aren't experiencing growth the corporation is getting closer and closer to death. When a company has a downturn in business or there's disruptive innovation in their industry that takes them down from their perch, advertising and sports sponsorship will be cut.

Kodak would've sponsored the Bills, now with Kodak being on life support for 15 years they wouldn't have kept the annual expense of putting their logo on the Bill's jersey and the identity and bonds created with fans over the years of AFC winning teams would be forgotten and wasted, down the drain for nothing.

If there ever are big corporate logos on jerseys, I don't see why the team owners wouldn't promote their own legitimate businesses that they created their wealth in to be able to purchase the team in the first place.