Roger Clemente Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I don't think I can find an explanation for this.--Roger "Time?" Clemente. Follow me on Twitter if you care: @Animal_Clans.My opinion may or may not be the same as yours. The choice is up to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatSleepJeep Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Cocaine is a helluva drug... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yac12 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 What is wrong with leaving a cap they way the teams have it on the field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VitaminD Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I don't think I can find an explanation for this.--Roger "Time?" Clemente.It's simple, Rog - New Era has identified the new "it" demographic: boombox-toting spacemen who like rockin' some serious bling. And thanks to this line of hats, New Era is going to corner the market in days. Maybe even hours.Sure, New Era isn't perfect, but they're visionary. And for all the things people gripe about - their wild variability in things like cap sizes and sewing a logo onto a cap straight - should be viewed through their prism: it makes the hat-buying experience a fun and crazy adventure! Who knows what's gonna be screwed up on your overpriced purchase?! More fun than Russian roulette! "Start spreading the news... They're leavin' today... Won't get to be a part of it... In old New York..."In order for the Mets' run of 12 losses in 17 games to mean something, the Phillies still had to win 13 of 17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yh Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 That's an absolute disgrace.How can a Blue Jays' hat have NO BLUE???!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew22 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 And the Yanks are the only ones with a white hat. Eagles/Heels/Dawgs/Falcons/Hawks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Whore-endous.Nah, seriously, this :censored: needs to stop. What ever happened to making regular flippin' caps? Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsunited Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Whore-endous.Nah, seriously, this :censored: needs to stop. What ever happened to making regular flippin' caps?Wouldn't that fat gold rope have floated right off Spaceman's neck? New Era = creating hat designs after a 3 AM bowl smokeout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capn89 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 At least when you get lint on it you can just tell your friends it's "stars." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE SPANISH INQUISITION Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 hip hop....astronauts.....the connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBear Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Hell, even MTV doesn't use the spaceman anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsunited Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 hip hop....astronauts.....the connection?Thanks, New Era. About a subtle as a brick through your front window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 The New Era guys are overworking now. It's great to be young and a Giant! - Larry Doyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatManTC Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 i like them, just for the sheer fact that they arent the same basic design that you always see. by RoscoeUA by gingerbreadman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFoA Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I'll rock a fashion hat every now and then...But if I see anybody wearing that I'm calling them an idiot. Seriously, a damn spaceman on your head? WTF? Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I want my.I want my.I want my MTV! The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eRay Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 is this a ripoff hat? you don't see big companies ripping off other companies that often, but given the popularity (in other markets than what is represented on these boards, clearly) of the billionaire boys club this could be new era trying to capitalize on another company's known icon. interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timparry Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I've been waiting my entire life for a cap like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cupie Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 The thing is, only people of a certain age will even understand the MTV/astronaut reference that this cap seems to be built on.And no offense to people my age, but "hip demographic" we just ain't anymore. I'm on the young side of the "MTV generation" -- which is to say, people old enough to remember when MTV just showed music videos -- and it would destroy New Era's credibility with its target demographic if a photograph of anyone my age wearing one of these caps were to get out. Which, actually, makes buying one of these caps and photographing myself in it seem very attractive ...But I just don't understand how anyone young enough to be in New Era's target demographic would even begin to understand these caps. I mean, do kids today even know what an "astronaut" was? The last moon landing was thirty-six years ago. The MTV reference is about twenty years old. And that cassette-deck boombox? Might as well be a Chevelle with an eight-track. I'm not exactly an early adopter, but I haven't seen a cassette tape since maybe 1993. Does New Era really think today's teenagers and early-twentysomethings have a huge dose of nostalgia for the year 1981? I just don't get it.EDIT: I should say that I don't mean that people born after, say, 1980 don't actually know from the classic MTV ad or cassette tapes. I have a monumentally clueless much-younger kid brother born in '82, and even he gets all sorts of early 80s references that are before his time, just as I get all kinds of early '70s cultural references that I didn't actually experience firsthand. My point is that although folks younger than me may understand the references, I just don't see why anyone would expect them to care. I mean, I would understand a reference to "Little Joe" as referring to Michael Landon's character on Bonanza, even though the show went off the air just before I was born. But would I ever be interested in buying any Bonanza merchandise, for any reason? No, absolutely not. And the cultural referents that go into these caps seem to be in about the same class with relation to the folks New Era is trying to reach as a Bonanza-themed product would be for people my age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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