Fan Apparel

Rock icons Devo have cashed in on their weirdness over the years, and they are now using their singular identity to sell branded PPE items, with a face shield incorporating Devo's famous "Energy Dome" headwear earning our vote as the most creative promotional product meant to combat the COVID-19 pandemic...

Usually around this time we’re reporting on which MLB teams have the best or most creative promotional giveaways scheduled for the rest of the year. The NHL and NBA seasons would also be winding down, so we’d probably have a few stories about big-time playoff giveaways. But, owing to the current circumstances, we’re left to talk about what could have been...

Today is one of those time warp days for us. We had to check the calendar multiple times to confirm that it was, in fact, Wednesday. And since it's Wednesday, it means it’s time for another edition of our Fave 5. This week, we cover items celebrating our beloved baseball (with a superhero twist), movie promotions and parodies, and more...

The Tokyo Olympics, originally slated for this summer, were postponed until next summer due to the coronavirus. Given the sort of last-minute nature of the announcement, officials in Japan had already cranked out a huge supply of Tokyo 2020 merchandise. What happens to it now?...

With its theme parks shut down, Disney has had to go online-only for merch sales. That can present a challenge in itself, as the demand for limited edition merch could cause servers to freeze up like a dead Tauntaun on Hoth. Thankfully, Disney planned ahead by creating a “virtual waiting room” for shoppers to wait until its their turn to buy “Star Wars Day” merch...

Live sports remain on an indefinite hiatus, and there’s no real definitive light at the end of the tunnel quite yet. One competition has thrived under the COVID-19 lockdown, though: e-sports. Since this is basically the extent of team sports right now, experts believe that the demand for e-sports merchandise, like apparel, is growing...

This year’s NFL draft is going to be a little different, but one thing will remain relatively close to normal: The players will still get to toss on a baseball cap with their new team’s logo once they get drafted. For this year’s purely digital draft, players will have to sift through a box containing 32 hats and 32 jerseys for the right ones when their name is called...

XFL fans, we’re sorry the league folded. We’re all living in a world without sports right now, but the XFL was getting some serious hype as an alternative to the NFL and new fans were jumping on the bandwagon every week. (I liked Houston because former Temple quarterback PJ Walker). But then, as quickly as…

People who were previously lucky enough to score tickets to events like the NCAA Tournament or the Kentucky Derby are no doubt bummed. It’s for the best, but it doesn’t take the sting out of missing out on the action. We can’t go back and magically make the events happen as scheduled, but we can do the next best thing: buy merchandise as if we were there...

The members of Pantera have not throttled eardrums since their group’s 2003 disbanding, but their heavy-hitting catalog still resonates with fans. The metal legends, therefore, are counting on backers to buy a T-shirt born of the need for social distancing as the world contends with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is appropriately metal...