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per the NY Times:
Last year, any Ohio State fan could buy an officially licensed Buckeyes football jersey bearing No. 97. Though N.C.A.A. rules prohibit colleges from selling jerseys with players’ names on them, Ohio State fans understood what a scarlet jersey with a white 97 meant: a tribute to the star defensive end Joey Bosa, who wears the number when the Buckeyes play.
But as a federal court deliberates on whether it is fair for universities to make money off the commercial use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses, a growing number of colleges have quietly decided to stop selling team jerseys with popular players’ numbers.
Instead, they are using ostensibly anodyne digits. This season, for instance, official Ohio State jerseys available for sale will bear only No. 1 or No. 15 — a reference to 2015.
“I think if schools are selling jerseys with the numbers of their ‘star’ players, they’re intentionally admitting that there’s commercial value in individual players beyond just the team uniform,” said Warren Zola, executive director of the Boston College Chief Executives Club at the Carroll School of Management.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/0...llege-players-jerseys-seem-numbered.html?_r=0
Go Gophers!!
Last year, any Ohio State fan could buy an officially licensed Buckeyes football jersey bearing No. 97. Though N.C.A.A. rules prohibit colleges from selling jerseys with players’ names on them, Ohio State fans understood what a scarlet jersey with a white 97 meant: a tribute to the star defensive end Joey Bosa, who wears the number when the Buckeyes play.
But as a federal court deliberates on whether it is fair for universities to make money off the commercial use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses, a growing number of colleges have quietly decided to stop selling team jerseys with popular players’ numbers.
Instead, they are using ostensibly anodyne digits. This season, for instance, official Ohio State jerseys available for sale will bear only No. 1 or No. 15 — a reference to 2015.
“I think if schools are selling jerseys with the numbers of their ‘star’ players, they’re intentionally admitting that there’s commercial value in individual players beyond just the team uniform,” said Warren Zola, executive director of the Boston College Chief Executives Club at the Carroll School of Management.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/0...llege-players-jerseys-seem-numbered.html?_r=0
Go Gophers!!
