Sporting stars as "brands"

[Madbadteacher]

Is it just me that's getting more and more irritated by this (is it just me becoming and grumpy old man?) (becoming??)

 

Anyway, I find myself getting increasingly annoyed seeing sportstars with their own registered "logos" (usually some poncey graphic designer stylisation of their initials). Federer and Woods seem to be among the first I remember (but there may be others) and as for Lewis Hamilton 

 

I know it has always been thus since the advent of professional sports and big sponsors etc, but I find this sort of "self-aggrandizement" particularly seems to be de-rigeur these days, for individual sports men/women especially.

 

Am I in a minority here, am I really just a GOM or a dinosaur?

[mondo]

Dinna get me started on DJ Hamilton.....

 

The thing you have to remember is that for every sports star who has decided to go down the 'brand' route there are a hundred more who don't give it a second thought.  That's the way I see it anyway.

 

Must admit I am quite fond of my 'Alan Tate for men' aftershave.  The women love it. 

[rocket_scientist]

I bought 10 bottles of Davie Dodds cologne at the time. Nearly on to the last bottle now. Babe magnetiser.

[Madbadteacher]

^^^ makes them attracted to 'poles'?

[Kowalski]

The vast majority of the big names do it. Federer and Woods seem the worst.

 

Genuinely surprised that Darren Mackie never got in on the act.

[Madbadteacher]

I mind kids talking about wearing "DM's" when I was aloon, was this no something to do with the Dazzler?

[donsdaft]

Big brown boots wi yalla laces

Chequered shirts and elastic braces

We have come to smash your faces

We are the Aberdeen Boot Boys.

 

 

 

Ah, the King Street End back in the day.

[rocket_scientist]

I mind kids talking about wearing "DM's" when I was aloon, was this no something to do with the Dazzler?

 

I had one pair of DM beets in the 70's but forty years later, got my second pair of Docs.

 

They were a standard pair of black shoes which I got earlier this year but I've since added to them with a pair of green (khaki) Docs crossed with Engineered Garments and last month, got this navy pair of the same.