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Blog Insights| Design Tips, Team Gear & Inspiration
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- September 23, 2021Keep your sporting equipment clean under normal conditions is always important but doing so in the middle of a pandemic can help keep you, your teammates, and your family safe from getting sick. While some areas of the country continue to battle with the COVID-19 virus, it’s important to do whatever you can to keep you and your family safe. Schools have started back up, which means that team sports are back in session and with sports back in session it means groups of people back together in smaller spaces. In addition to situations where teammates and opposing teams are in close quarters with one another, there is also sharing of equipment between players. Ensuring that these pieces of shared equipment are properly cleaned and sanitized can greatly help to reduce the spread of germs… Keeping your equipment clean and sanitized can keep you and your teammates healthy so that you can continue playing the sports and activities you love. Knowing how important it is to keep everything clean,
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- September 08, 2021With football season upon us it’s time to work towards earning those helmet award decals! But what exactly are helmet award decals? Helmet award decals are a way for coaches and staff to reward their players for doing well during a game. The requirements for earning these award decals varies from program to program, so it’s not going be the same for every school. For example, Ohio State awards their players buckeye stickers on their helmets for things like five three-and-outs during a game or if the offense executes ten plays in which 12 or more yards are gained. Whereas Michigan State awards an “S” to the players every time the team wins. Check out our post about what the decals on specific college football helmets mean if you want to learn more about how certain programs are handling their award stickers.
How do Helmet Award Decals Differ from Traditional Helmet Decals?
When we talk about traditional football helmet decals, we are usually referring to a team’s logo, stripes, or design -
- September 05, 2021Summer is upon us and that means youth sports teams are gathering for games and practices, while high school and college football teams are getting ready to start their summer training programs. With the sun beating down on the players, sweat dripping from every part of their body while they run around the field, there’s no doubt that football jerseys can quickly become dirty and extremely smelly, which is why it’s important to wash them every chance you get. But before you just throw the jersey into the washing machine with all of the other clothes, there are a few tips you should know about how to properly wash your football jersey to ensure that it gets as clean as possible and stays looking sharp. These tips can also be used to wash your favorite player’s jersey or other sport jerseys as well. The goal here is to make sure that you’re washing the jersey properly so that you avoid ruining the jersey by fading the color, permanently setting stains, or causing permanent rips or tears.
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- August 25, 2021Vinyl stickers and decals can be a great way to dress up your wall. Whether you’re adding some team logos to the locker room or putting up a positive saying in your family room, vinyl is strong, durable, and easy to clean. But what happens when you decide that you no longer want those stickers hanging on your wall? Do you just pull them down and hope that the paint doesn’t come with it? Or is there a better way to remove them? If you’ve ever removed a sticker or decal from any surface, you know that it can quickly become a chore to fully remove, leaving the surface in its original condition. And when it comes to a painted surface, the last thing you want to do is remove the paint with the sticker. Nobody wants to have to patch and repaint an entire wall just because they took down a sticker! Thankfully we do have some tips for you when it comes to removing vinyl wall stickers from painted walls, that will help ensure that the stickers peel off cleanly, without ruining the paint, and without
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- August 16, 2021With football season right around the corner, it’s almost time to put together your fantasy team! And what better way to celebrate the start of fantasy football than with the ultimate fantasy football draft party. We all know that the internet has made it a lot easier to run a fantasy football league these days, but an online draft is nothing compared to getting together with a group of friends while you aimlessly pick through a roster of pro-athletes, hoping to come out on top at the end of the season. Fantasy football has quickly become one of the most popular activity to do amongst friends during the football season. It’s a great way to engage with friends while being competitive at the same time. The best part is, the winner sometimes comes down to just plain luck. Players get injured or don’t perform well, and sometimes that guy that nobody wanted ends up blowing away all expectations. Fantasy football is a great excuse to hang out with friends every Sunday while cheering on your favorite
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- July 28, 2021When it comes to playing outdoor sports that take place on a grass covered field, dirt, or turf, proper cleats are an essential part of the game. We’ve all seen that one person that doesn’t have a pair of cleats while playing flag football or a pickup game of soccer, he’s usually slipping and sliding all over the field – and not in a fun way. The problem that people run into when it comes to cleats is that there are different types of cleats for different sports, and that can become confusing. What type of cleats should I wear for a certain sport? Can I wear the same cleats that I wore for baseball, on the soccer field? Those types of questions come up a lot when talking about cleats and sport footwear when people are still trying to figure out what sports they want to play, or they are getting back into a sport later in life and don’t necessarily want to buy new cleats if they already have them. Unfortunately, not all cleats are allowed in all sports either. For example, if you wanted
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- July 14, 2021One of the most annoying things about decals and stickers is dealing with the left-over sticker residue after they are removed. In some cases, you’ll get lucky and the sticker will peal off with little effort, but in most cases, with well made stickers, you’ll be left with ugly sticker “gunk” on whatever surface you placed the sticker. Removing this sticker residue doesn’t have to be a hassle as long as you know the proper techniques and solutions for removal. It’s especially important to understand what solutions you can use on different surfaces. What you might use to remove a sticker from a window may not necessarily be the same thing you would want to use on your car’s bumper. Different solutions can do damage to the wrong surfaces if you’re not careful. The last thing you want to do is have to have your car repainted because you used a solution or technique that destroyed the clear coat and the paint. Let’s take a look at a few different ways to ensure that you can easily remove those
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- July 09, 2021Compression clothing has becoming extremely popular over the years with athletes, but what exactly do compression clothes do, and are they actually beneficial? You may have noticed more and more athletes wearing compression clothing while partaking in sporting events and workouts. These tight-fitting articles of clothing are said to have many benefits when working out, doing physical activities, and even after exercise. They are said to help everything from blood flow to reduce muscle fatigue during and after workouts.
What Are Compression Clothes?
Compression clothing is designed to be tight-fitting garments that target specific areas of the body during workouts. You may have heard of, or experienced, wearing compression socks when you’re going to be in a sitting or laying down position for long periods of times (long airplane flights or hospital stays). Those compression socks are designed to help with blood flow to prevent blood clots. And while athletes aren’t wearing them to help prevent -
- July 04, 2021Spring sports are starting up again and that means more laundry to do. If you’ve never had to try and remove a grass stain from a white uniform, then consider yourself lucky. Grass stains can be extremely difficult to get out of clothing, especially when they’ve been worn in and already set, but we’ve got some tips that should help you out. Before we get into the best ways to remove grass stains from clothing and uniforms, let’s take a quick look at why grass stains are so hard to get out of clothing in the first place.
Why Are Grass Stains So Hard to Remove?
There are certain things that tend to stain our clothes more easily than others, and there are also things that tend to create worse stains. If you’ve ever played an outdoor sport, or have a child that likes to play outside, then you’re all too familiar with the struggle of grass stains. Getting them out of clothes seems to be an almost impossible task… especially when sports like baseball tend to use white pants. But why are they -
- June 23, 2021When it comes to finding the best quality decals for your football, baseball, or lacrosse helmet, it’s important to research what the decals are made of to better understand how they will stand up to the pressure applied during play. There are many different types of stickers and decals, but not all of them are created equal. The same stickers you buy for your kids to play with wouldn’t be the same types of stickers you would want to put on your football helmet. Certain stickers adhere to surfaces better, some are more durable abuse, while some stickers hold up better in situations where heat may be an issue. It’s important to understand the application and scenarios your sticker/decal will be in, to understand exactly what type of sticker you should go with. The most common materials used for stickers are plastic, high performance polyester, vinyl, and even static cling window stickers. When it comes to football helmets, and other sportdecals that need to stand up to intense wear and
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