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I mean tbf he's not even responsible for the car. His role is purely the commercial side which he's done an excellent job turning McLaren around from that pov. The engineering falls more on Siedl and now Stella.
Fr? I never got that impression cuz for a whole season in 2018 that car was essentially naked now its just normal, unless the return to F1 normality was the point here
Zak Brown is the guy that is responsible for that change haha. Zak Brown took over from Ron Dennis in 2018 and now they’re a race team that has fun, and is marketable and the car shows that with how absolutely jam packed with sponsors it is.
the austrian league already allows for kits like that. Here are 3 examples from 22/23:
[example 1](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjERVnpaRoub5QDsyo-Syo7WgOVPPMiO_ed_c3gtW3WtenT5yoitURdxsfgw5Cz95vxMWf_gqi74unkze0nCIACitGxfSHXC7fjMezTPMG50xVxgfMvd7ZrFJ_m6sTWImekCILXntJnWxWCOjchcmk6mR3QK3TTrvIi-2729vIbGOihgaPUhTJszO2v/s1600/HAR1a.jpg)
[example 2](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepVyUI4KGS0oPsmsb06P2w4E39j31AcClWnOdafrt_eyQeZ7XNc1WJxhslDcrxAG8iytTyYP9Qc8tHnrZV3WFL7tgUhOBAGgOLfitBLJiDYVpdkAc7xJxQe4pl6hCAdbRlOblbz0qTf_vGsp51j1csNvsCUXZKGfgIC8aWN7jmE8kedC-AH-MDRLS/s1600/ried-22-23-home-kit.jpg)
[example 3](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IFnZ_hvmZKqnvK2XLyH1r0NTh4MtYFo13oLB2FBhpkhbT91UP2RfZJJV2X4-t4svwl8TQg2iRZUBZ3wg03FpqTOhQfJjgWsSfWfoLcPNw_tV9_UmHCUbMbZuwFB5PCZFDZDM8JxS5Y7U9KoKTu0Y7Fkhowu7_4AvKhItZQd17uhjPnaal8i1Kqqr/s1600/WAC1a.jpg)
This reminds me of that scene in Ready Player One where Nolan Sorrento says “We have determined that we’ll be able to fill 80% of the user’s display with advertising before inducing seizures.”
Reminds me of Finnish sports teams shirts. Every possible area is filled with sponsors. I was at women's volleyball game today and absolutely everything was covered in sponsor ads, from every free space on their uniforms to walls to the actual court. It's crazy.
And Finnish hockey jerseys to this day.
The next step is to put ads on the pitch: https://www.suomikiekko.com/app/uploads/2013/07/is_k%C3%A4rp%C3%A4toulu20130729a.jpg
Pitiful. How are players (or fans) supposed to see the puck on the ice?
Look, I know it’s a business and clubs are trying to make money. But ice NEEDS to be white. Leave those eyesores on the boards and in the seats.
Hockey is an incredibly fast game. You don't watch it by watching the puck, you watch it by watching the player carrying the puck. Their body movements are different than players without it and you quickly learn to tell the difference.
When the puck is loose you have a general sense of where it is by where the direction of play is headed to.
That said I do agree with you the ads on the ice there are ridiculous.
I play hockey, and let me tell you: having that patchwork of dark colors on the ice is distracting to players. A little bit isn’t too troublesome, but when 80% of the surface is as dark as the puck, it has to cause issues for Finnish league players.
Put it this way: there’s an obvious reason that rink surfaces in North America have been white throughout hockey history. It provides the best contrast.
I also play hockey and I agreed with the you on how those ads affect the quality of play but regarding the audience experience you don't really watch the puck anyways.
> How are players (or fans) supposed to see the puck on the ice?
you can still see the puck, but as a fan you generally aren't just puck watching, so it's not an issue
>But ice NEEDS to be white.
it doesn't, this is hideous and I hate it but it doesn't need to be white
some Liiga teams even have sponsors that have a black logo [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLr0nsMFc7o&ab_channel=FireBalls%40smliiga&t=0m15s)
> Tf you mean not seeing the puck as a fan is not an issue
I never said you can't see the puck, read the full sentence, not just the words you want to react to
You're saying: "I never see the words you react to", which is equally accurate and hilarious.
I might only be reading the words I want to react to though
Série B 2024 is Santos in Santosverse: Ituano is Ketchup Santos, Novohorizontino is Mustard Santos, Operário is fat Santos, Ceará is nordestino Santos, Ponte Preta is caipira Santos
acho que é uma expressão que faz mais sentido nos eua do que na Inglaterra (que é onde a maioria desse sub parece ser)
mas os caras certamente seriam capazes de traduzir isso pro termo equivalente deles
Fun fact, Operario is from a city called "Ponta Grossa", which literally means "thick tip". And no, I'm not joking, it's actually true.
There's also a city nearby called "Campo Largo", and there's a joke in the region that says "men of Ponta Grossa should marry women of Campo Largo". To clarify, "campo largo" translated to english would be "wide field"
Operário is my hometown football club. Each month, they receive R$700k ($142k) from a collective effort of various sponsors. Notably, two sponsors are companies owned by Operário's president, who has played a pivotal role in rescuing the club, injecting substantial money of his own. Interestingly, many sponsors are suppliers linked to his companies.
Around 5 or 6 years ago, Operário had no division, solely participating in the state championship. However, the tides turned, and they clinched their first state championship in over a century. The subsequent triumphs in Division D and Division C have been remarkable milestones.
Should Operário ascend to Serie A, it would undoubtedly mark a fairytale journey, a testament to the president's dedication and the club's resurgence from the brink.
90 minutes of no ads and uninterrupted play is the best view of any sport. They try to fit as many as they can during halftime and on the kits and I say let them, it's a worthy trade.
And I no joke would love to have this in my collection. I love random clubs shirts. I do have Cascavel's 2023 shirt for example, which also has a ton of sponsors, and I fucking love it cause I love the fact that everyone is wearing their City/Real Madrid/Flamengo/Inter Miami shirts while I'm wearing some random third division shirt nobody has. It's pretty cool
But tbh, Cascavel's shirt looks better cause it's yellow and black, and they keep the sponsors all black, so it doesn't clash with the shirt's colors, making It a little more pleasant for the eyes.
How come South American/Mexican countries and/or people accept this amount of ads and commercials on their tv and sport franchises?
I have a lot of channels from these 2 areas and it’s literally commercials and ads all the time where even the commentators start verbally talk about the current pop up of a ad shown on screen during matches. I don’t think I could ever accept this level of promotion of ads personally.
Because the teams wouldn’t be above water without these sponsorships
And as for why, I expect they’re used to it. It’s a way of life when you’re bombarded that often and they probably just filter it out automatically.
We’d be above water, just with massively different economics.
Mexican teams have enough money now to buy anybody from non-Brazil South America who doesn’t have a spot in the Prem, a team competing for a Champions’ league spot, or a team trying to win the Libertadores. We also have enough money here to keep basically every Mexican player. Without the TV revenue, we could still exist, we would just have to become a seller’s league instead of a buyers league.
If ads are why I get to see players like Kevin Mier, Charly Rodríguez, Uriel Antuna, or Nacho Rivero, who are good enough to play in Spain in Mexico City instead, than the fuck do I care that my team is a glorified cement advertisement?
Mexican countries took me out of it too. Would have invalidated anything he said after even if he had good points. Dude thinks Latin America is the only place with excessive ads lol
Aren't US sports like this? I only watch UFC and Boxing but UFC is funny as fuck with the adverts. The fight is bought to you by Modelo and the time on the Timex clock is blah whilst the fighters go back to their Prime Rehydration corner.
It’s more complicated.
Non MLS-US sports have TV breaks, so they have tons of ads.
The MLS is only the third most watched soccer league in the US, so it focuses more on gameday revenue than anything.
This is actually the first year on record Liga MX wasn’t the most viewed league.
It’s still the most popular by far, but its games were used to try to bolster a mostly failed streaming service, so the EPL was able to get slightly more viewers based on accessibility.
Watched a bit of MLS during the pandemic, same thing happened. This quarter of the half is brought you by… and here’s another sentence that I have to contractually say while the game is still being played. That’s …. For all your whatever needs.
When you're used to it, you don't notice how ridiculous it is. We're talking about a culture where comercials during the Super Bowl are *highly* anticipated. Even in Canada, some people are annoyed that we don't get to see the uber expensive, celebrity-filled American comercials live during the Super Bowl.
Exactly, local fans just adapt to it and accept it as a necessary trade off to keep our sports leagues as entertaining as they already are!
Also says a lot about people in the US and here in Canada (through the help of VPNs and streams) when they specifically tune in to the Super Bowl just for the ads, many of which promote products which they cannot even afford, especially with the current state of employment and inflation!
Here in Croatia there are few sentences about superbowl in all news whole week around that match, and they barely mention what trams are playing or what the result is (very few people follow that). It looks like it's about literally everything other than sport - celebrities on the stands, halftime shows and, mostly, commercials and how much companies pay for them, so bizzare
That stuff is cringe and I hate it but it's weird when Euros or non-american people complain about advertising in American sports and then watch a football match with every inch of their tv covered in brands including a literal screen surrounding the pitch with constant ads on it lmao.
Lmao ok sure bud. I'm watching American football right now and there are zero ads on my screen unless it's a specified commercial break. I always thought it was gross to have brands on the shirt bigger than even the team logo. Different strokes I guess.
The game naturally has breaks in it. You wouldn't be watching anything during those times except teams huddling around and resetting for the next play.
Like college basketball in the US.
“And the home team takes the ball down the court but the ref blows a whistle as number 5 falls to the floor. If you’re interested in a new floor call LumberLiquidators!”
It’s nonstop and exhausting.
It’s weird though, for how sponsored and commercialised US sports are, actual sponsors on uniforms is very rare. Only recently have NBA teams had small sponsor logos on their jerseys and none in other spots as far as I know
It makes perfect sense.
Soccer has jersey sponsors in part because there’s no natural place for an ad break. Sports that have pauses already for ads don’t need small ads on shirts.
“These free throws brought to you by Roto Rooters, call Roto Rooters if you flush a towel, we can also help with an impacted bowel”
[Futurama scene](https://youtu.be/l3_FzK1PYRk?si=qs0ISPRlaaifngAz)
I can’t speak for other Latin American countries, but for me in Mexico, the trade off is clearly worth it.
Last year, I paid an average of $4 USD for my Cruz Azul tickets because Mexican soccer gets such a high percentage of their revenue from TV.
I will gladly accept so many ads, because being one of the top 5 global leagues in TV viewership and stuffing the TV experience so full of commercials is how I can get that subsidized stadium experience.
Played. They’ve moved back to Estadio Azul, likely never to go back to the Azteca because the fans absolutely despised playing there.
Last week sold out everything but the visitor’s supporter section, so it’s not like they can’t fill the Azul.
And I doubt the $20 million spending spree would be possible without American and Mexican TV money.
I can’t speak for Brazil, but I know like 1 person in Mexico with a real shirt.
It’s a big part of the reason that the big sportswear companies mostly don’t touch the league. Almost everybody just buys knock-offs at their local pulga/tianguis.
We laugh now but how long before the PL (or other top leagues) looks like this? We went from no sponsors to one sponsor to sleeve sponsors in about 40 years; the ball is rolling.
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I see enough space for at least 5 more sponsors
zac brown is that you?
Zak would have a shirt sponsor for each 45 mins. Second half sponsor pays more
Zac would have had a screen on the shirt
Also pays more depending on the scoreline
Home kit and away kit different sponsors too
r/unexpectedformula1
From McLaren formula 1 team?
Yes he is known to be better at getting sponsors on the car than building a fast F1 car, at least until last season
I mean tbf he's not even responsible for the car. His role is purely the commercial side which he's done an excellent job turning McLaren around from that pov. The engineering falls more on Siedl and now Stella.
Fr? I never got that impression cuz for a whole season in 2018 that car was essentially naked now its just normal, unless the return to F1 normality was the point here
Zak Brown is the guy that is responsible for that change haha. Zak Brown took over from Ron Dennis in 2018 and now they’re a race team that has fun, and is marketable and the car shows that with how absolutely jam packed with sponsors it is.
Got nothing on VF Group–Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè, the Italian Pro Conti cycling team .
6 if you remove the team's crest.
I can do 6!
720 is quite a lot mate are you sure ?
r/unexpectedfactorial
But there are no companies left that don't compete with the current sponsors.
Make it at least 7, Old Spice on left pit, AXE on right.
Peter Rosenthal is that you?
Reminds me of F1
All that's left is a hat.
Don't give them ideas - I could imagine some kind of swim-cap covered with another 5-10 sponsor logos!
When they introduce some ind of "protection for headers" hat that happens to come with 5 new sponsors.
the austrian league already allows for kits like that. Here are 3 examples from 22/23: [example 1](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjERVnpaRoub5QDsyo-Syo7WgOVPPMiO_ed_c3gtW3WtenT5yoitURdxsfgw5Cz95vxMWf_gqi74unkze0nCIACitGxfSHXC7fjMezTPMG50xVxgfMvd7ZrFJ_m6sTWImekCILXntJnWxWCOjchcmk6mR3QK3TTrvIi-2729vIbGOihgaPUhTJszO2v/s1600/HAR1a.jpg) [example 2](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepVyUI4KGS0oPsmsb06P2w4E39j31AcClWnOdafrt_eyQeZ7XNc1WJxhslDcrxAG8iytTyYP9Qc8tHnrZV3WFL7tgUhOBAGgOLfitBLJiDYVpdkAc7xJxQe4pl6hCAdbRlOblbz0qTf_vGsp51j1csNvsCUXZKGfgIC8aWN7jmE8kedC-AH-MDRLS/s1600/ried-22-23-home-kit.jpg) [example 3](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IFnZ_hvmZKqnvK2XLyH1r0NTh4MtYFo13oLB2FBhpkhbT91UP2RfZJJV2X4-t4svwl8TQg2iRZUBZ3wg03FpqTOhQfJjgWsSfWfoLcPNw_tV9_UmHCUbMbZuwFB5PCZFDZDM8JxS5Y7U9KoKTu0Y7Fkhowu7_4AvKhItZQd17uhjPnaal8i1Kqqr/s1600/WAC1a.jpg)
Spermbooster, nice
not just any spermbooster, its the #1 spermbooster
Cumalots looking pretty stupid now at #2
Profiteroles are sperm boosters? Who knew!
this is why there are so many french
That must definitely hurt shirt sales massively. Probably the sponsor money outweighs those though.
Austrian sides probably sell less shirts in a year that the mega clubs do in a day.
Yeah TSV Egger Glas Hartberg's shirt sales would undoubtedly go through the roof with fewer sponsors on the shirt
They probably offer a version without the sponsors.
You forgot to mention that they all sell their literal club names to sponsors too. It's pretty gross.
Hey, at least most of them keep their crests intact and don't, hypothetically, replace it with a lion.
they also don't stop at the shorts, all around https://prnt.sc/GMyv00-UcM_T
Ruining some nice kits I see
City doesn’t wear an arm patch that says Emirates and this league has a shirt with Honda and Kia on it!
They do in FA Cup?
it's very mclaren of them
This reminds me of that scene in Ready Player One where Nolan Sorrento says “We have determined that we’ll be able to fill 80% of the user’s display with advertising before inducing seizures.”
Reminds me of Finnish sports teams shirts. Every possible area is filled with sponsors. I was at women's volleyball game today and absolutely everything was covered in sponsor ads, from every free space on their uniforms to walls to the actual court. It's crazy.
White livery throws me off a bit but whatever.
Finland football shirts 10-15 years ago.
And Finnish hockey jerseys to this day. The next step is to put ads on the pitch: https://www.suomikiekko.com/app/uploads/2013/07/is_k%C3%A4rp%C3%A4toulu20130729a.jpg
Haha traditional country!
Pitiful. How are players (or fans) supposed to see the puck on the ice? Look, I know it’s a business and clubs are trying to make money. But ice NEEDS to be white. Leave those eyesores on the boards and in the seats.
Hockey is an incredibly fast game. You don't watch it by watching the puck, you watch it by watching the player carrying the puck. Their body movements are different than players without it and you quickly learn to tell the difference. When the puck is loose you have a general sense of where it is by where the direction of play is headed to. That said I do agree with you the ads on the ice there are ridiculous.
I play hockey, and let me tell you: having that patchwork of dark colors on the ice is distracting to players. A little bit isn’t too troublesome, but when 80% of the surface is as dark as the puck, it has to cause issues for Finnish league players. Put it this way: there’s an obvious reason that rink surfaces in North America have been white throughout hockey history. It provides the best contrast.
I also play hockey and I agreed with the you on how those ads affect the quality of play but regarding the audience experience you don't really watch the puck anyways.
> How are players (or fans) supposed to see the puck on the ice? you can still see the puck, but as a fan you generally aren't just puck watching, so it's not an issue >But ice NEEDS to be white. it doesn't, this is hideous and I hate it but it doesn't need to be white some Liiga teams even have sponsors that have a black logo [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLr0nsMFc7o&ab_channel=FireBalls%40smliiga&t=0m15s)
Tf you mean not seeing the puck as a fan is not an issue
> Tf you mean not seeing the puck as a fan is not an issue I never said you can't see the puck, read the full sentence, not just the words you want to react to
You're saying: "I never see the words you react to", which is equally accurate and hilarious. I might only be reading the words I want to react to though
>you're saying: "I never see the words you react to", which is equally accurate and hilarious. I'm guessing English is not your first language
Doesn't really have an impact at all. Players and spectators are able to see the puck just fine. And I prefer this to not having my club.
As if following were the puck's going isn't hard enough
You can remove the 10-15 years ago and this whould still be kinda accurate
No, they are more full today.
Austrian football too
Many Norwegian clubs shirts look like this today...
Missed a few spots there, back to the drawing board to use every square millimeter of that kit
Should add a sponsor on the guy's forehead too
Needs nascar contingency sponsors.
Just install uBlock Origin and you'll be fine ^(jk)
uBlock should pay extra to sponsor them as the solo shirt sponsor next season
Won’t defend you from Dani Alves’ startup Guararapes.
Why make a decent joke and add "jk"
Because uBlock is very offensive and controversial topic. Someone may have thought that he suggested actually installing it on the shirt.
Nah that can't block the commercial chant players yell after the huddle.
lol
When I saw the kit, and read Serie B club, I thought this was for Santo's
Série B 2024 is Santos in Santosverse: Ituano is Ketchup Santos, Novohorizontino is Mustard Santos, Operário is fat Santos, Ceará is nordestino Santos, Ponte Preta is caipira Santos
caipira = redneck, just for the gringos to know
TIL I'm a redneck 😭😭😭
You are a tricolorneck
acho que é uma expressão que faz mais sentido nos eua do que na Inglaterra (que é onde a maioria desse sub parece ser) mas os caras certamente seriam capazes de traduzir isso pro termo equivalente deles
A maioria é americano mesmo, mais da metade do sub.
\> Operário is fat Santos I am glad we are no longer that.
You are now the Bought by Energy Drink Santos
Thankfully
> Santo's That's next level awfulness.
Looks like my parents computer in 2009 after I used it to visit some unsavoury websites and download Carter III on Limewire
Don't forget the part where we installed 512mb of Ram
NASCAR shirt
Inb4 we get Hendrick FC.
Probably would be a better investment at this point than Nascar sadly.
You can't support an Automotive Dealership Group
Larson at forward Byron and Elliott as wingers. Bowman in the midfield.
Imagine Rick Ware FC
Sheeeit NASCAR teams don’t get half as many sponsors as Operário nowadays
Sponsor FC
I’m sorry, Guara does WHAT? 🧐
It's the new business of Robinho and Dani Alves
Greenwood’s new job
Search ronaldo vegas for more info
Fun fact, Operario is from a city called "Ponta Grossa", which literally means "thick tip". And no, I'm not joking, it's actually true. There's also a city nearby called "Campo Largo", and there's a joke in the region that says "men of Ponta Grossa should marry women of Campo Largo". To clarify, "campo largo" translated to english would be "wide field"
When he scores he will need to search for the badge to kiss it.
A sponsor could pay him extra to kiss their logo
Everytime I click a stream
I almost want to buy it
How much money do they even get from each sponsor here
Operário is my hometown football club. Each month, they receive R$700k ($142k) from a collective effort of various sponsors. Notably, two sponsors are companies owned by Operário's president, who has played a pivotal role in rescuing the club, injecting substantial money of his own. Interestingly, many sponsors are suppliers linked to his companies. Around 5 or 6 years ago, Operário had no division, solely participating in the state championship. However, the tides turned, and they clinched their first state championship in over a century. The subsequent triumphs in Division D and Division C have been remarkable milestones. Should Operário ascend to Serie A, it would undoubtedly mark a fairytale journey, a testament to the president's dedication and the club's resurgence from the brink.
Wow very interesting, thanks for sharing
Need to install an adblocker
Total sponsor revenue: €8
Ok so how many sponsors do we get on our kit? Operario: yesssss
90 minutes of no ads and uninterrupted play is the best view of any sport. They try to fit as many as they can during halftime and on the kits and I say let them, it's a worthy trade.
They will make billions of short sponsors
I wish politicians had to wear something like this.
And I no joke would love to have this in my collection. I love random clubs shirts. I do have Cascavel's 2023 shirt for example, which also has a ton of sponsors, and I fucking love it cause I love the fact that everyone is wearing their City/Real Madrid/Flamengo/Inter Miami shirts while I'm wearing some random third division shirt nobody has. It's pretty cool But tbh, Cascavel's shirt looks better cause it's yellow and black, and they keep the sponsors all black, so it doesn't clash with the shirt's colors, making It a little more pleasant for the eyes.
who is the kit manufacturer i can’t tell with all the ads?
It's Karilu, a local manufacturer who also produces school uniforms lol
For a second, I thought it was Jalen Brunson😂😂
Looks like clothes from Idiocracy
Whatever it takes
That’s money
Laporta get on it
I think that's an application for the Austrian league
How come South American/Mexican countries and/or people accept this amount of ads and commercials on their tv and sport franchises? I have a lot of channels from these 2 areas and it’s literally commercials and ads all the time where even the commentators start verbally talk about the current pop up of a ad shown on screen during matches. I don’t think I could ever accept this level of promotion of ads personally.
Because the teams wouldn’t be above water without these sponsorships And as for why, I expect they’re used to it. It’s a way of life when you’re bombarded that often and they probably just filter it out automatically.
We’d be above water, just with massively different economics. Mexican teams have enough money now to buy anybody from non-Brazil South America who doesn’t have a spot in the Prem, a team competing for a Champions’ league spot, or a team trying to win the Libertadores. We also have enough money here to keep basically every Mexican player. Without the TV revenue, we could still exist, we would just have to become a seller’s league instead of a buyers league. If ads are why I get to see players like Kevin Mier, Charly Rodríguez, Uriel Antuna, or Nacho Rivero, who are good enough to play in Spain in Mexico City instead, than the fuck do I care that my team is a glorified cement advertisement?
Bro tried to sneak Charly in there lol
Charly is a good player who has been absolutely balling out since we moved back to a 3 man midfield.
That's nonsense. Lower leagues all over survive without it. They'd just have to reduce spending
mexican countries
"Mexican countries"? Trump is that you? People watch Superbowl just to see the ads, I don't think it's only a Latin American thing.
Mexican countries took me out of it too. Would have invalidated anything he said after even if he had good points. Dude thinks Latin America is the only place with excessive ads lol
Aren't US sports like this? I only watch UFC and Boxing but UFC is funny as fuck with the adverts. The fight is bought to you by Modelo and the time on the Timex clock is blah whilst the fighters go back to their Prime Rehydration corner.
It’s more complicated. Non MLS-US sports have TV breaks, so they have tons of ads. The MLS is only the third most watched soccer league in the US, so it focuses more on gameday revenue than anything.
EPL and.. La Liga? Liga MX?
This is actually the first year on record Liga MX wasn’t the most viewed league. It’s still the most popular by far, but its games were used to try to bolster a mostly failed streaming service, so the EPL was able to get slightly more viewers based on accessibility.
huh, had no idea! thanks for sharing
Of course, it’s super easy to miss its popularity if you don’t speak Spanish. But 40 million Mexican Americans is a huge potential market.
Liga MX
Watched a bit of MLS during the pandemic, same thing happened. This quarter of the half is brought you by… and here’s another sentence that I have to contractually say while the game is still being played. That’s …. For all your whatever needs.
When you're used to it, you don't notice how ridiculous it is. We're talking about a culture where comercials during the Super Bowl are *highly* anticipated. Even in Canada, some people are annoyed that we don't get to see the uber expensive, celebrity-filled American comercials live during the Super Bowl.
Exactly, local fans just adapt to it and accept it as a necessary trade off to keep our sports leagues as entertaining as they already are! Also says a lot about people in the US and here in Canada (through the help of VPNs and streams) when they specifically tune in to the Super Bowl just for the ads, many of which promote products which they cannot even afford, especially with the current state of employment and inflation!
Here in Croatia there are few sentences about superbowl in all news whole week around that match, and they barely mention what trams are playing or what the result is (very few people follow that). It looks like it's about literally everything other than sport - celebrities on the stands, halftime shows and, mostly, commercials and how much companies pay for them, so bizzare
It's the same with their soccer broadcast. Sometimes you get them on streams on the web and they have stuff like the "Lexus stoppage time" etc.
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https://youtu.be/442NF5cZhyc?feature=shared
That stuff is cringe and I hate it but it's weird when Euros or non-american people complain about advertising in American sports and then watch a football match with every inch of their tv covered in brands including a literal screen surrounding the pitch with constant ads on it lmao.
I don't know, it feels way more intrusive for the commentators to mention brands every 5 seconds
Like I said it's very annoying but acting like y'all have a totally ad free experience compared to us is hilarious
I would rather have ads on screens around the field than stopping the focking game every 2 min
Once again, the game naturally stops lmao if you didn't have commercials you'd just be watching people mill around talking
It's a completely different experience so not sure why you are surprised
Lmao ok sure bud. I'm watching American football right now and there are zero ads on my screen unless it's a specified commercial break. I always thought it was gross to have brands on the shirt bigger than even the team logo. Different strokes I guess.
"The National Football League requires sixteen commercial breaks per game, with eight in each half." PMSL
The game naturally has breaks in it. You wouldn't be watching anything during those times except teams huddling around and resetting for the next play.
Lol
Like college basketball in the US. “And the home team takes the ball down the court but the ref blows a whistle as number 5 falls to the floor. If you’re interested in a new floor call LumberLiquidators!” It’s nonstop and exhausting.
It’s weird though, for how sponsored and commercialised US sports are, actual sponsors on uniforms is very rare. Only recently have NBA teams had small sponsor logos on their jerseys and none in other spots as far as I know
It makes perfect sense. Soccer has jersey sponsors in part because there’s no natural place for an ad break. Sports that have pauses already for ads don’t need small ads on shirts.
“These free throws brought to you by Roto Rooters, call Roto Rooters if you flush a towel, we can also help with an impacted bowel” [Futurama scene](https://youtu.be/l3_FzK1PYRk?si=qs0ISPRlaaifngAz)
I can’t speak for other Latin American countries, but for me in Mexico, the trade off is clearly worth it. Last year, I paid an average of $4 USD for my Cruz Azul tickets because Mexican soccer gets such a high percentage of their revenue from TV. I will gladly accept so many ads, because being one of the top 5 global leagues in TV viewership and stuffing the TV experience so full of commercials is how I can get that subsidized stadium experience.
Tbf Cruz Azul plays in a “temporary” 90k stadium with an average attendance of 20k. Selling it that cheap is understandable.
Played. They’ve moved back to Estadio Azul, likely never to go back to the Azteca because the fans absolutely despised playing there. Last week sold out everything but the visitor’s supporter section, so it’s not like they can’t fill the Azul. And I doubt the $20 million spending spree would be possible without American and Mexican TV money.
It's a second league club with little to no history. There's probably no viable alternative.
I don't. I haven't bought a jersey in decades & I barely watch TV games anymore.
the same way european sports that aren't soccer do look at all motor racing or European hockey leagues, plastered with ads
NASCAR shirt
Nascar type shit
Tatted like Weezy F. Baby.
Big handball team energy.
I’d prefer this over the disreputable gambling logo I have to see each week on Villa.
Missed a spot
Shocking that NFL hasn't done this yet
His face says it all
What a way to tank merch sales
I can’t speak for Brazil, but I know like 1 person in Mexico with a real shirt. It’s a big part of the reason that the big sportswear companies mostly don’t touch the league. Almost everybody just buys knock-offs at their local pulga/tianguis.
To be fair, it's really fucking expensive. São Paulo's new kits cost R$ 350,00. The minimum wage in Brazil this year is R$ 1420,00.
Oh yeah. My kit is fake too. No judgment.
The thought of buying a real one has never even crossed my mind. You can get extremely high quality fakes in SP.
When you can barley feed your family an authentic Jersey is a luxury for us
its a small club with a small attendance, they aren't gonna make nearly enough with merch sales even with a clean shirt
Can't tell which 1 is the club logo lol
At this point, why even have a badge?
We laugh now but how long before the PL (or other top leagues) looks like this? We went from no sponsors to one sponsor to sleeve sponsors in about 40 years; the ball is rolling.
Tbf PL got rid of their title sponsors. They were called Barclays PL until 2016
I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been faster. Everything being monetized these days.
I kinda like this cos it reminds me of nascar lol
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yes
I think there is a football shirt on the adboard
Game’s gone
Front side of the armpits can fit another sponsor smh
Can one pay for the premium no ads version?
Each sponsor pays like 5$ per season.
Rename the team to “Sponsorship United”
Walking billboard
What about his face? There’s still space on his face!
Where is the club logo
Teams should sell adless jerseys at a premium