The Gene Upshaw Patch

[stealth]

When you are dead you can ***** about those who are, until then **** about what the dead are entitled too. Gene deserves what he gets, it doesn't matter if you like it or not. It's a tribute, how it looks doesn't matter at all.

 

[DWhite Fan]

Last night I kept wondering... What if his first name had been Frank?

:laugh2:

Good one

 

[gbrittain]

As long as Dallas wins, I will not even notice the patch.

 

[bbgun]

Let us all bow our heads.

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[ThreeSportStar80]

I really don't have any complaints about it however I agree it could have been smaller...

 

[J-DOG]

The patch is too big.
Make it smaller and get it off the front of the jersey.

 

[Ender]

Its really ugly,

 

[J-DOG]

I can't believe a patch is an issue.


Ok. Who hates the oval airholes in the newer helmets?

Anyone still pissed that Romo wears his hat backwards?

Actually you raise an interesting point about helmets.
The helmet that Peyton Manning wears is hideous in my opinion. Wierd shape and the facemask makes it look like he rode the short bus to the stadium.
Romo however, wears a cool-looking helmet with a cool facemask.
What this has to do with how players play the game...who knows?
But I like my team to look good and win games.
That patch was hideous because it was too big.
Make it smaller put it on the sleeve or put something on the back of the helmet and lets get back to some kind of semblence of normalcy.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

It doesn't really bother me, but it is a rather pathetic looking patch.

A unicorns insignia might be nice, Tomson.


http://cowboyszone.com/forums/member.php?u=3205

 

[Cajuncowboy]

http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126649

Mentioned this yesterday and I still think it's a butt ugly patch and it could have been done with more class, IMO.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

No disrespect to Gene Upshaw but having that patch on everyones jersey for the entire season is a joke.

Its a huge patch on those jerseys and will become an eye sore after awhile.

Also we gave Pat Tillman a patch for like a week and the league got onto Jake Plummer for wanting to put his numbers on his shoe.

I have no problem doing it for the opening week but I can't believe they are going to put the patch on everyones jersey for the entire year.

The patch serves no purpose other than to perpetuate the weepy, feel-good, we're-all-in-this-together posing that is prevalent today. Everybody has to have a cause, issue. Everybody has to weep in front of the cameras, everybody has to lay a teddy bear and a heart at whatever site. As long as the cameras are running.

Red ribbons, pink ribbons, yellow ribbons, everything is a cause, a crusade, a goal.

Why can't we just enjoy this pastime. It's an escape. But some idiot in the NFL or Players Union office decided this was a good idea, so now the fans have to be reminded every game about someone's tragic end.

Give us back our game. Our pastime. Free of guilt and grief and mourning and self-flagelation.

Fie on you, you grief mongerers!

 

[Cajuncowboy]

The patch serves no purpose other than to perpetuate the weepy, feel-good, we're-all-in-this-together posing that is prevalent today. Everybody has to have a cause, issue. Everybody has to weep in front of the cameras, everybody has to lay a teddy bear and a heart at whatever site. As long as the cameras are running.

Red ribbons, pink ribbons, yellow ribbons, everything is a cause, a crusade, a goal.

Why can't we just enjoy this pastime. It's an escape. But some idiot in the NFL or Players Union office decided this was a good idea, so now the fans have to be reminded every game about someone's tragic end.

Give us back our game. Our pastime. Free of guilt and grief and mourning and self-flagelation.

Fie on you, you grief mongerers!

That was actually really good.

Don't agree with all of it but it was good.

 

[Arch Stanton]

Hundreds of veterans huh? Where is the list of all their names? So you work at the Players Association and you know the inside details of what went on right?

You have all the facts, lol.

Does the NFL need to create a better solution pertaining to making sure the retiring players have proper benefits in the future?

Of course and the Players Union has to work with them to implement this plan.

Do some of the players need to stop throwing around the money they make now so they have some put away for the future?

Of course and the NFL and the Players Union over the past few years has been implementing plans during the offseason to educate these guys on how to do just that.

Was Gene Upshaw wrong on some of his decisions? Yes, but you can't say he wasn't good for the Players Union overall. I can say that based on the simple fact that the man was in office for 25 years.

This isn't just on Gene Upshaw, but also the owners. However the NFLPA need to take the lead here. Unfortunately Upshaw didn't seem to have too much interest. If he did, then Mike Ditka, Moose Johnson and others wouldn't be championing the cause. With the discussions on a new CBA I hope they take the opportunity to address this issue and get players like Jeff Fuller, who have suffered serious injury on the field, the proper recompense they deserve.

 

[cowboyeric8]

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Yuck. I am all for honoring the guy, but seriously.

No offense, but I wasn't a fan of the fedora's either. But I can understand it because it was our team. It would have looked great on the back of the helmets much like the TEX logo that was on there after his death. This GU is horrible, sorry.

 

[RainMan]

Eh, we can always crop the "GU" thing out of the Super Bowl celebration photos.

I keed, I keed.

Seriously, the patch is pretty fugly. A black stripe with "GU" in the middle, kinda in the mold of what basketball teams do, on the sleeve would have looked much classier.

So that thing will be on the jersey all year? Not just one week?

 

[rickyross]

Quit whinning about a little patch on a jersey.Is it going to hurt your eyes or something. If you don't want it on the jerseys take it off whinners

 

[Juke99]

The thing that bugs me most about the patch is that the NFL probably paid an ad agency an obscene amount of money to "design" it.

I coulda come up with some just as ugly...and wouldn't have charged as much.

 

[JackMagist]

Im all for honoring the guy but that Patch for anything more than a week is just an eye sore.

I can't believe they are doing it for the entire year. Hopefully they come to their senses.

They wore that "21" on their helmets all year for Sean Taylor. Taylor did not have near the impact on the league that Upshaw had. In fact up until about a year before his death he had been a punk and an embarrassment to the league. If he deserved a patch on the helmet for an entire year then Upshaw CERTAINLY deserves the patch on the Jersey for the year.

I didn't agree with everything Upshaw did but I respected him as a player and as a person for his entire career. He spent his entire professional life living for the game of football. Let them wear the patch...I applaud the tribute.

 

[Kilyin]

I thought the patch meant "G-Unit".

 

[Vtwin]

The patch serves no purpose other than to perpetuate the weepy, feel-good, we're-all-in-this-together posing that is prevalent today. Everybody has to have a cause, issue. Everybody has to weep in front of the cameras, everybody has to lay a teddy bear and a heart at whatever site. As long as the cameras are running.

Red ribbons, pink ribbons, yellow ribbons, everything is a cause, a crusade, a goal.

Why can't we just enjoy this pastime. It's an escape. But some idiot in the NFL or Players Union office decided this was a good idea, so now the fans have to be reminded every game about someone's tragic end.

Give us back our game. Our pastime. Free of guilt and grief and mourning and self-flagelation.

Fie on you, you grief mongerers!

Amen!