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Not sure about that. Teams routinely hand out "game ball" awards. Not just the literal ball, but actual special balls imprinted with the date and what the stat or reason was for the award. Seems to me like that is pretty analogous to a merit sticker, even if there are far fewer game balls given out than there would be stickers.
Pride Stickers Why not NFL?
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Posted November 4, 2009 - 11:21
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Posted November 4, 2009 - 11:38
All the aforementioned reasons aside, I would think that handing out pride stickers would just cheapen them at the college level. Right now, it's something unique to the college game, and they wouldn't mean nearly as much or be nearly as cherished if pro teams gave them out.
Part of it is also probably the NFL's head offices not wanting to muddy up team identities by placing more clutter on helmets. Some college players have enough pride stickers that they would be covering up a good chunk of the helmet decal of an NFL helmet, and the league would not want that. There's already enough stickers on helmets — flags, memorials, warnings, numbers — that they probably don't want to gum up the works any further.
Part of it is also probably the NFL's head offices not wanting to muddy up team identities by placing more clutter on helmets. Some college players have enough pride stickers that they would be covering up a good chunk of the helmet decal of an NFL helmet, and the league would not want that. There's already enough stickers on helmets — flags, memorials, warnings, numbers — that they probably don't want to gum up the works any further.
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Posted November 5, 2009 - 07:00
officeglenn, on November 4, 2009 - 11:38, said:
All the aforementioned reasons aside, I would think that handing out pride stickers would just cheapen them at the college level. Right now, it's something unique to the college game, and they wouldn't mean nearly as much or be nearly as cherished if pro teams gave them out.
Part of it is also probably the NFL's head offices not wanting to muddy up team identities by placing more clutter on helmets. Some college players have enough pride stickers that they would be covering up a good chunk of the helmet decal of an NFL helmet, and the league would not want that. There's already enough stickers on helmets — flags, memorials, warnings, numbers — that they probably don't want to gum up the works any further.
Part of it is also probably the NFL's head offices not wanting to muddy up team identities by placing more clutter on helmets. Some college players have enough pride stickers that they would be covering up a good chunk of the helmet decal of an NFL helmet, and the league would not want that. There's already enough stickers on helmets — flags, memorials, warnings, numbers — that they probably don't want to gum up the works any further.
Not the helmets, but they just did this with the introduction of those ridiculous Captain patches. In a way, that's kind of like a pride sticker, especially how you get another star each year.
