Nike Vs Reebok

The NFL’s players, like in other professional sports leagues wear unique uniform and equipment. The NFL gets its uniforms from Nike (Solutions, 2018). They have been sponsoring the NFL since April 2012. The NFL does not have a specific sponsor for equipment. The NFL’s preceder to Nike as the sponsor was Reebok, which ran from 2002 to 2012 (Daughters, 2017). Reebok had signed a 10-year licensing deal for the exclusive rights to make and sell NFL licensed merchandise, including jerseys and cleats, for all 32 teams (Daughters, 2017). After some time that speculated over how much different the Nike NFL jerseys would really be from the Reebok ones, the new NFL Jerseys premiered to lots of excitement and so-so reviews. Overall, the main difference

Using lighter fabric with a more contoured fit and four-way stretch for optimal movement the jerseys are made to help players move (Daughters,2017). The new Nike NFL Jersey is lighter than the old Reebok one while boasting added its unique flywire technology in the collar for a better fit, stretch twill numbers, mesh ventilation. All of these improvements add up to a more comfortable uniform that helps fit each player's needs. The Seattle Seahawks are one team that had Nike remake their uniforms, from the helmet to the logo the Seahawks have been taking the field in a completely different fashion than in years prior. This new look has increased jersey sales for the franchise (Daughters, 2017). Most traditional teams stuck with the basics and what they wore in seasons past has continued to be the same and allowed minimal changes to the overall appearance of their jerseys. Nike has had deals with individual teams in the past. Changes to the uniforms, which the league started using in the 2012 season, vary by team and were in some cases restricted by NFL rules that allow teams to change their jerseys only once every five years (Solutions,

Which is quite less than the current average cost of equipment. When “football” first began being played in the United States it was indeed called football, but it appeared a lot more similar to the game of rugby that had been “shipped” to collegiate fields in North America all the way across the Atlantic from England. This means that there were no players wearing headgear when Princeton and Rutgers squared off for the first college football game in history in 1869 (Daughters, 2017). It was not until the 1890s before any consistent mention of head protection devices are found with at least a couple of sources claiming that the first in-game use of a “helmet” came during the 1893 edition of the Army vs Navy game in Annapolis (Daughters, 2017). An obvious reason for the helmet’s coming of age in football and its eventual technological transformation was and always will be injury prevention, because this game is very dangerous if not played properly. This scenario was spurred along as the game of American football changed from the rugby-like game of the 19th century to the game we know today a slow but steady change brought on by a series of rule modifications introduced by the likes of Walter Camp (Daughters,