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Well, we know they have the budget to pay off a settlement.

I have always viewed it the other way around. I dont think I ever saw a passable Reebok-era fake because bootleggers never got the sheen of those jerseys quite right. I could tell a fake Bledsoe-era Bills jersey from a mile away, but the current set actually takes me a second when I see them at games because light seems to hit the materials more accurately.

Before it was wildly overdone by schools nationwide, I thought the Broncos 97 set was really creative and well-designed.

The Hawks entered the decade with Dominik Hasek & Ed Belfour coached by Vladislav Tretiak... Chicago should have been a dynasty in the 90's.

Gonna need an explanation for this one!

This one is interesting, more of a custom than a fake... the seller claims it was a team prototype, but the 2002 Nike Team Canada base says otherwise... still makes for a cool era mashup:

Financial restitution in these situations is tough because civil court requires proof of both wrongdoing and resulting damages... especially dealing with a public school... a simple cease and desist is probably most realistic.

I frequent thrift stores and I would say literally 95% of the Nike-era NFL jerseys I find are fake... the weird thing is how every jersey seems off in its own way - some have bad flywire, some have bad NFL logo chips, some are the completely wrong color... I guess the counterfeiters aren't as close to nailing it as I used to think.

I think the fact that they did not properly communicate the role of this logo killed it before it even had a chance... a lot of people thought this logo was going to appear on the helmet as opposed to merch only. Online designers did great jobs with minorly tweaked designs, though.

I have recently learned to sew a zig-zag pattern and plan on stitching custom hockey jerseys this summer... this will be one of the first I make. Right city, wrong team?

Sorta teetered into Bills territory, but the change to the red facemask was a home run

I have always loved those USC numbers, would love to see a team like the Titans bring them back to the NFL

A creative direction that failed to attract the younger fans it targeted while simultaneously alienating and embarrassing its proud, diehard fan base... I have seen this before...

I am Corn-Oriole! I will see myself out.

He's right, guys. *Deletes sidneycrosbybrainlogo.jpg*

The rarest Hasek jersey there is! Only worn in the 2nd half of his last season in Buffalo... sold my old used one for $350 right before his number was retired

Redundant as it might be, the current set feels empty with no shoulder patch at all... would love to see the B-Sword make a comeback

The funny thing is, the Bills always fauxback that font onto their retail 90s jersey instead of the diagonal 2 he wore all but one year of his career.

I'm sure this was posted already, but: I saw a still-vacant building in Central NY with all the signs still intact and it made me nostalgic for binging NFL2K1 on the store Dreamcast

I wouldn't close the door on completely original logos, but the Navy logo is obviously built off existing IP.

**Disclaimer: business teacher on snow day #2** I have looked at this issue from both sides for a long time. It bothers me that most (literally 80%+) jerseys I see at NFL games are fake, but, honestly, I get it. 15 years ago, replica jerseys retailed for $45 and have more than doubled in price since. Increases in quality and inflation don't justify that spike in cost. The NFL created the counterfeit market by grossly inflating the value of their own intellectual property. Nobody was buying fakes in the late 90's because the real ones were affordable and nobody was making fakes because the margins were too low. Authentic-style jerseys were available in the 90s, but the prices were sky high (via JC Penney, as low as $150 for a screen-printed Bills jersey, but as high as $410 for a Steelers jersey). However, demand was so low that the hypothetical production costs and high quality seemed to justify the high prices. In my opinion, when the authentic jersey market took off, Reebok and Mitchell & Ness got greedy, overcharged, and gave the counterfeit game life. Reebok was reasonable with $65 replicas that were objectively nicer than prior Champion & Puma offerings. People weren't as keen on dropping $2-300+ on an authentic, though. $100 EQT jerseys helped bridge the gap, but once Nike swooped in and made $100 the minimum, it was game on. The new low-quality $80 screened Nike jerseys feel like a backhanded, "too little, too late" attempt to level off prices. Patrice O'Neal had a great bit about how shoe companies skyrocket prices and then offer minor discounts to trick consumers into feeling thrifty. That trick doesn't work when alternatives exist at an 80% discount. I seriously doubt the average person cares about the quality gap or "robbing" the financially bloated institution of professional football enough to take food off their child's plate and respect the NFL's overvaluation of its own intellectual property with unjustifiably high-priced apparel. Then again, for all I know, NFL merch sales are at an all-time high and knockoffs are a drop-in-the-bucket-sized amount of collateral damage. The NFL seems awfully fixated on the counterfeit market, though... In short, NFL:Counterfeiters::USA:Al-Qaeda Anyways, sorry, I'll be back in school tomorrow. Agreed! My lone moral issue with fakes is when people dupe buyers into thinking they're real. If someone does research and nabs a quality knockoff (rare as they may be) at 1/5th the price, laissez faire. Mass-flipping fakes for a 5x profit on unsuspecting buyers is another story. Regardless, I would sooner buy a fitted game-used 90's jersey of a nobody on eBay for $50-100 than a $100 barrel-bodied Nike replica any day.

I have always found this uniform fascinating. We will never see this major an overhaul spiral into a one-off uniform... the number font seems ahead of its time in hindsight. I would love to see this uniform brought back as a quirky alternate/throwback on a night to, say, add Drew Bledsoe to the Pats' Ring of Honor.

A #6 Miro Satan Devils jersey would have been the best-selling jersey of all time.

I would love to see this return on an alternate jersey:

I would argue the enlarged swords specifically addressed that issue and that a minor ticking up of those swords would negate the empty feeling... and unpopular opinion, indeed!