I haven't had much success with my sports teams lately. In fact my college football team is so bad (and has been for 15 years) they just fired their head coach... again. My basketball team had one of their worst seasons last year and look to be equally as bad this year. The head coach is going to serve a nine game suspension, the team is loaded with freshman, and they had a bunch of scholarships taken away.
It's really been a disaster for me, because it seems all of my friends have teams that are doing well. One guy is a Patriots fan who won't shut up about it, another is an obnoxious Yankee fan who claims he's been that way his entire life, and another is a Rutgers fan for some odd reason. Fortunately none of us root for Duke, so we can all agree how much we hate them.
I grew up in Western New York and while they weren't my favorite team, they were in my top two. When I decided to go to Syracuse for college that all changed. Gone were my allegiances to Nebraska football and North Carolina basketball (can you say FRONTRUNNER?) I was now solely an Orange fan. After graduation my love for all things Syracuse only grew.
There are four days that stand out in my life... the day I married my wife, the days that my kids were born, and the day that Syracuse basketball won the 2003 National Title. My wife isn't so certain that they should be placed in this order. She seems to think that my basketball team winning was a way bigger deal than marrying her. After all she says, getting married isn't a once in a lifetime thing like Syracuse winning a national championship.
That's the kind of smack talk that I like; subtle, but direct. Talking smack with my friends turns into the same conversation every time. The Yankee fan always gets ragged on for buying championships, the Patriot fan hears about conspiracies and cheating, and the Rutgers fan... well, you can say pretty much anything to a Rutgers fan because they stink.
I'm always wearing a Syracuse shirt, hat, or hoodie which should be enough to talk smack with, but now there is another way... by wearing your fandom! Smack Apparel makes doing that easy. They make T-shirts for sports fans who love to talk smack and want the world to know it. It's not a Lexus with a bow on top, but what better gift can you get your smack talker this holiday season? When they open up their gifts and see a Smack Apparel shirt it won't end up in the crappy presents pile. They will put the shirt on and talk smack the rest of the day.
I'm going to get my kids a couple of shirts this holiday out of their rookie wear collection... I just have to figure out which team they are actually rooting for. Sadly it's not my Syracuse Orange.
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**This is a sponsored post for Smack Apparel. I was compensated, but they didn't tell me to root for Syracuse in any way. My diploma did that.
