[HN Gopher] Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants
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       Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants
        
       Author : marban
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-07-01 07:40 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | sys_64738 wrote:
       | Commodore used to sponsor Chelsea and Bayern Munich in the 80s.
       | This isn't a recent phenomenon.
        
         | sien wrote:
         | Remarkably people are still making replicas of those shirts.
         | 
         | https://www.3retro.com/brand/score-draw/bayern-munich/
         | 
         | It shows some weird value of these things. What other
         | advertisement would people pay GBP 25 for almost 40 years
         | later?
        
         | capableweb wrote:
         | Hitachi used to sponsor Liverpool in 1979 as well. You know how
         | I know this? I read this article:
         | https://restofworld.org/2022/football-shirt-tech-sponsorship...
         | 
         | I don't think that article (nor the one in the submission)
         | claims that this is a recent phenomenon.
        
       | baxtr wrote:
       | I have never really understood the value of soccer jersey
       | sponsoring. It's gotta be a "we-have-too-much-money-and-
       | don't-know-what-to-do-with-it" phenomena.
        
         | emilsedgh wrote:
         | I never understood why Pirelli was Inter Milan's sponsor for
         | more than 2 decades. I always thought to myself: What's the
         | return of investment there?
         | 
         | But then I realized I only know Pirelli because of that
         | sponsorship.
         | 
         | Now I have never bought a tyre in my entire life and I couldn't
         | care less about tyres but as far as brand recognition is
         | considered that investment has worked.
        
           | yareally wrote:
           | My car came with higher end perellis. Was not that impressed
           | by them, but could be my bad luck.
           | 
           | After hitting a fairly big pot hole, it caused a major bubble
           | to form on the side of the rubber. Switched them out for
           | Michelin and haven't had an issue 2 sets later
        
           | EarlKing wrote:
           | If you recognize the brand but have never been inclined to
           | make a purchase... it hasn't worked.
        
         | harlanlewis wrote:
         | There was an article investigating something similar about a
         | month ago - The Economics of Stadium Names: Sell your stock in
         | (most) companies that buy them https://axiomalpha.com/the-
         | economics-of-stadium-names/
        
         | httpz wrote:
         | The ROI is hard to know but there certainly is value.
         | 
         | Are you questioning the value of all impression based
         | marketing?
        
           | EarlKing wrote:
           | If you don't know the ROI then you cannot compute the
           | value... and hence you're not even wrong.
        
         | missedthecue wrote:
         | Probably makes sense for sports betting companies.
        
           | baxtr wrote:
           | Yes, that's a valid point. I guess the same is true for sport
           | brands.
        
         | dfxm12 wrote:
         | Maybe the execs just like going to the games in luxury boxes.
         | You do get a little more than your name on the kit.
        
           | boomboomsubban wrote:
           | Plus you can offer the boxes to your clients or manufacturing
           | partners to ensure good relations with them.
        
         | nikanj wrote:
         | Bragging rights. "That's my company, right there on the left
         | shoulder of Wayne G"
        
           | EarlKing wrote:
           | "GOODYEAR" plastered across a quarterback's ass would be good
           | just for the giggle factor.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | texaslonghorn5 wrote:
       | Interesting article. Wonder if similar analysis could be done
       | with named sports stadiums.
        
         | gumby wrote:
         | There was a post on just this issue (financial impact of naming
         | a sports stadium) on HN in the past few weeks
        
           | texaslonghorn5 wrote:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31620348
        
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