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skyking26
09-12-2007, 08:26 PM
Rec'd my American Memorabilia catalog yesterday. My question is - as a perspective buyer of a GU jersey, would you want a vintage piece that was worn by a model on a farm leaning against bales of straw or thrown on a rock???

The format just is not working for me...

RK

sammy
09-12-2007, 10:12 PM
Personally, I wish what happens in Las Vegas, would actually stay in Las Vegas.

AMI's catalog is turning into a laughing crock of soft porn.

both-teams-played-hard
09-12-2007, 11:11 PM
Personally, I wish what happens in Las Vegas, would actually stay in Las Vegas.

AMI's catalog is turning into a laughing crock of soft porn.

My thoughts exactly. AMI is insulting all of you. Who wants to sexualize a flannel jersey? Don't you feel a little sorry for these bimbos who think they've leaped into the world of high-fashion modeling? Go to Flint Publications and get it over with already.

Skanks for the memories....

kingjammy24
09-13-2007, 04:43 PM
a few catalogs ago, kieta wrote this bizarre, rambling piece about how AMI was somehow uniting the entire family in this hobby. it had nonsensical mentions of renting a Ferrari in Vegas (if there's anything better for transporting a family than a Ferrari, i have yet to see it), renting a home in Texas and some other seemingly incongrous activities. (in reality, she was just shilling for the advertisers in that issue. had the advertisers been Jif, Scores, and the Army, she probably would've said that nothing unites a family more than peanut butter, a trip to a nudey bar, and enlisting them all in the Army.) anyway, my point being that it was this piece about how AMI and it's catalog was making this all a family activity, yet their catalog now shows some topless girls performing various acts with jerseys. quite a family atmosphere! mom will love seeing dad get that catalog and run off into the tool shed in the backyard! the young kids especially should enjoy picking it up and seeing what's got dad so interested. the catalog couldn't be more family unfriendly. anyway, she later defended it all by basically saying any publicity is good publicity and then went on to compare the situation to paris hilton, barry bonds and some other upstanding folks. you know you're on the right family-friendly track when you're comparing yourself to paris and barry!

rk: if someone's desperate for attention, then nudity is the easiest and quickest way to get it. i imagine it's what you turn to when you don't have a real advertising campaign. not selling enough cars? get some bikini girls dancing in front of the dealership! it's not exactly ogilvy & mather. it's cheap, tacky, and appeals to the lowest common denominator. some people don't have to stoop to such pedestrian levels. apparently, AMI feels it has to. it'd be nice if they removed the Gathers jersey that their own referenced video shows is bad. perhaps they're too busy waiting outside the local brothel to recruit more "AMI girls".

rudy.

worldchamps
09-13-2007, 05:11 PM
I love how the first few pages are about Johnny Unitas and his wife, and family, etc. Then when you flip to the back their is a chick in a cowboys hat and pink panties strutting around in his jersey.

Can you imagine the Unitas family looking at this?

Can you imagine dropping 20-30K for a jersey and evertime you look at it, you think of some nookie girl was the last person to wear this jersey.

And for the person that looks at this pictures to "enjoy" the women, do you think about the player at the same time???

Very questionable

skyking26
09-13-2007, 05:40 PM
All very valid points. Tacky and tasteless. Brings the hobby to a whole new scummy low. While I like to look at a hot woman as much as the next guy, this is just not right.

RK

JackHE
09-13-2007, 06:04 PM
Took my name off their list about a year and a half ago - they still keep sending the catalogs though. Too many questions and with Lou Lampson as their lead NFL guy - still putting them straight into the garbage.

lund6771
09-13-2007, 10:39 PM
i just saw the AMI Girls Photo Shoot pics..are you kidding me?....whats wrong with these people?

toddhead
09-14-2007, 08:27 AM
I never even get to see the catalogs... not that I'd want to. My wife always gets the mail and they always go right in the trash. I really don't understand their thinking behind this marketing ploy. Am I really going to bid higher on a jersey because some skank was wearing it?

mvandor
09-14-2007, 12:26 PM
Only plus was the Unitas article, amazingly Sweet Lou can write a nice piece. Perhaps he can go straight and give up facilitating fraud for honest sports writing.

scottanservitz
09-14-2007, 10:24 PM
I also read the Unitas article and was pretty impressed with it. I really wasn't too observant about the models wearing the jerseys and when I really started to look at the photos I honestly started to get pretty annoyed with it all. I agree with everyone that this is very tasteless and without warrant. This is a hobby about sports and the history that it brings all of us. Very bad taste. Hopefully they will figure it out that those of us that put the $ in their pockets really don't like what they are doing. But then again, probably not.
Scott