No good comes from gang-inspired sports apparel

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As the streets continue to fill with blood, the sports world eagerly pursues its cut. Sports. What a sad joke. If the money were right, we’d be charged extra to watch with both eyes.
A New York Giants jersey is now being sold in black, with dark red numerals and dark red stitching of names of current Giants, such as Hakeem Nicks.
No one, by now, needs to be educated as to what that’s all about, any more than they need to be told what inspired Nike to turn the colors of the American Olympic teams it sponsored from red, white and blue to black and white.

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DARK CLOUD: You’d never know Rutgers quarterback Gary Nova plays for the Scarlet Knights, based on the school’s black alternate uniforms, writes The Post’s Phil Mushnick.

And what a coincidence that dozens of pro and college teams that have abandoned their traditional colors — even schools such as the St. John’s Red Storm, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Harvard Crimson — to sell their souls to Nike, which has replaced the team/school colors with black.
At least some of the sellouts have the decency to admit black appears “more menacing” and/or helps recruit “student-athletes” — those who would choose a college based on uniform colors. Hey, you don’t wanna be caught dead, if you get my drift.
Significantly, these new, gang fashion-approved Giants jerseys are not knock-offs; they carry the licensing logo of both the NFL and the NFLPA. Their marketing divisions know what sells, and why.
After all, what makes gangsta rappers so appealing to sporting goods companies that they’d provide them their own lines of sneakers?
Brings to mind an under-reported protest by some Harlem residents a few years ago who knew — better than most — what MLB’s official cap-maker, New Era, was up to when it began to manufacture and flood urban markets with Yankees caps in the colors and designs that clearly attracted gang members.
New Era claimed that, gee, it had no idea! Said a spokesperson:
“It has come to our attention that some combinations of icons and colors on a select number of our caps could be too closely perceived to be in association with gangs.”
New Era had no idea its blue and gray Yankees caps were what the Crips liked; no idea the Yankees cap with the crown atop the interlocking NY were what the Latin Kings wanted; no idea Yankees caps designed with red and black bandana wraparounds were right up the Bloods’ alley.
Yep, pure accident, just a coincidence.
Nike’s latest transparent scheme to sell cheap, Third World-made sneakers as obscenely priced status symbols, uses LeBron James — in place of Michael Jordan — to sucker America’s most vulnerable, values-twisted inhabitants.
The LeBrons retail for $315. They’re sneakers.


Read more: Phil Mushnick: Gang-inspired sports apparel a disturbing societal trend - NYPOST.com



lol ny post is such a joke. this article reads like its straight from the 90s
 

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I thought they were talking about Starter jackets and hats when I started reading it.
 

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As the streets continue to fill with blood, the sports world eagerly pursues its cut. Sports. What a sad joke. If the money were right, we’d be charged extra to watch with both eyes.
A New York Giants jersey is now being sold in black, with dark red numerals and dark red stitching of names of current Giants, such as Hakeem Nicks.
No one, by now, needs to be educated as to what that’s all about, any more than they need to be told what inspired Nike to turn the colors of the American Olympic teams it sponsored from red, white and blue to black and white.

AP
DARK CLOUD: You’d never know Rutgers quarterback Gary Nova plays for the Scarlet Knights, based on the school’s black alternate uniforms, writes The Post’s Phil Mushnick.

And what a coincidence that dozens of pro and college teams that have abandoned their traditional colors — even schools such as the St. John’s Red Storm, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Harvard Crimson — to sell their souls to Nike, which has replaced the team/school colors with black.
At least some of the sellouts have the decency to admit black appears “more menacing” and/or helps recruit “student-athletes” — those who would choose a college based on uniform colors. Hey, you don’t wanna be caught dead, if you get my drift.
Significantly, these new, gang fashion-approved Giants jerseys are not knock-offs; they carry the licensing logo of both the NFL and the NFLPA. Their marketing divisions know what sells, and why.
After all, what makes gangsta rappers so appealing to sporting goods companies that they’d provide them their own lines of sneakers?
Brings to mind an under-reported protest by some Harlem residents a few years ago who knew — better than most — what MLB’s official cap-maker, New Era, was up to when it began to manufacture and flood urban markets with Yankees caps in the colors and designs that clearly attracted gang members.
New Era claimed that, gee, it had no idea! Said a spokesperson:
“It has come to our attention that some combinations of icons and colors on a select number of our caps could be too closely perceived to be in association with gangs.”
New Era had no idea its blue and gray Yankees caps were what the Crips liked; no idea the Yankees cap with the crown atop the interlocking NY were what the Latin Kings wanted; no idea Yankees caps designed with red and black bandana wraparounds were right up the Bloods’ alley.
Yep, pure accident, just a coincidence.
Nike’s latest transparent scheme to sell cheap, Third World-made sneakers as obscenely priced status symbols, uses LeBron James — in place of Michael Jordan — to sucker America’s most vulnerable, values-twisted inhabitants.
The LeBrons retail for $315. They’re sneakers.


Read more: Phil Mushnick: Gang-inspired sports apparel a disturbing societal trend - NYPOST.com



lol ny post is such a joke. this article reads like its straight from the 90s

You most not be from NYC. Mush nick is a horrible writer who comes off as a old man on the lawn screaming he hates boomer and carton, any type of celebration in any sport makes everything seem like the celebration is throwing the middle finger Hates People signaling first downs/sack Dances dunking Hr trots etc This old cranky loser gets no respect
 

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i see people with the cincinatti reds cap and i'm like" can you name someone on that team besides joey votto"

:childplease: that's so stuPid why do you care ? Red and black is a popular color what if they say chapman or Phillips you ask for more ? People wear baseball caps for style do I complain how alot of Yankee hats are worn ?
 
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