To celebrate and recognize their friendship, teamwork, and togetherness, the Houston Texans ordered customized high school-style letter jackets to wear before their game against the Patriots.
Number 80, Andre Johnson’s jacket, hanging on a chair in their locker room before departure.
Nose Tackle Shaun Cody came up with the idea, and shared with his friend Linebacker Connor Barwin. Very quickly the equipment team was on the case, ordering a full set for the whole team.
QB Matt Schaub sports his jacket, with tie and khakis
The team wore them for their flight to their game on Monday Night football. Several players and personnel posted twitter and Instagram photos, and several news stations covered the phenomenon as well.
The team boards the plane for MNF, Instagram was there to document
No names on the back, simply their position code and jersey number on the sleeve, the Texans logo on the left chest.
The idea will be to add patches for team achievements such as playoff wins. AFC Championship and Super Bowl will look nice down the arm, if the team ends up earning them. Captaincy patches will also appear, but no other individual awards.
Its pretty amazing that a great looking merchandise opportunity was sourced by a team member, rather than the multi-billion dollar machine of fan merchandisers the NFL licenses.
Props to whomever the manufacturer was to get them in hand, and in all the sizes an NFL team would need.
We at SL.N are fans. Nice concept, execution, and attractive design. We fear what will happen to the design once Nike gets a hold of it to place them in the NFL store.
How do you like them?
JR Francis is an actor, writer, director, graphic designer, UX guru, father, comedian, and craft beer snob. You can reach him at jrfrancis@sportslogos.net or on Twitter @JRFrancisSLN *One of several full-time uniform reporters this site has including its founder, Chris Creamer, who started his site in 1997
oz loya
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 16:02..talk about retro (kinda), looks good IMHO.
IPGComic
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 16:14Siiiiick. Nice one Texans
Chris
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 16:28That is a great idea. I'm sure that brings the team a little closer together too. I think once playes get to the NFL they lose sight of the fun side and privilege that football can be. This probably brings them back to their HS glory days.
Aaron
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 16:57I think all teams should do this once in a whole.
Kyle
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 17:06Love it. Totally old school.
Agent New Era
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 19:10Excellent idea. Would love for the Niners to do this somehow with majority gold.
Brian Lefkowitz
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 19:14Classy and beautiful.
Sanford Bell
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 19:27Nice
Eric
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 19:28Those are great jackets although I am usually partial to a different colour sleeve. I also think the team dropped the BALL with the logo. The space between the bull's horns is tailor made for a football.
Nick
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 19:45awesome. love it
Ben
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 20:18very cool. i hope that this can be a team thing and not a merch venture. i think it's kind of nice when players have apparel that is not available to the general public.
E.J. Matos
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 21:32Very clean. I like it.
carg0
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 03:59i love them but after the ass-whooping they received from the Pats later that night, i doubt we'll be seeing them again. i do applaud whoever came up with idea, though.
ingmar66
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 09:39Excellent stuff. Keep it exclusive for the players, just like in the old days.
Pod
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 16:28VERY cool!
Clarence
Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 16:07I thought the idea was dope. Nice executed and understated.
warez hosting|free cpanel|ddos hosting|web hosting|offshore hosting|addon hosting|addonhosting|warez allowed|no dcma hosting|private hosting|cheap host
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 17:14Woah this blog is wonderful i like reading your articles. Keep up the great paintings! You recognize, many individuals are searching around for this info, you can aid them greatly.