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The Biggest Takeaway from the Rick Tocchet Press Conference is a Badly-Needed Flyers Jersey Upgrade
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After the Rick Tocchet press conference on Friday morning, the Flyers did the obligatory photo-while-holding-the-jersey and fans noticed that the IBX logo has been updated:
It may have been the biggest takeaway from a boring press conference, the fact that the Flyers’ jerseys will no longer have an ugly, blue IBX clashing with the orange, black, and white motif. It really stuck out like a sore thumb, which, if you’re IBX, I guess is a good thing for “brand recognition,” but if you’re among the 99.9999% of Flyers fans that don’t care for or about jersey sponsors, then you have to say this looks a LOT better. The blue on orange clashed badly enough, but then it also had a light rectangular box around it that you could see if looked closely enough. Now the patch on this jersey is orange to match and looks about ten times better.
As you know, Dan Hilferty was at IBX before joining the Flyers organ-eye-zation. IBX also sponsors the Phillies and Union as well, now with sleeve patches on both of those uniforms. IBX won’t stop until they’ve slapped their logo on every sports team in Philadelphia. They’re looking to be the first five-for-five sponsor but right now they will have to settle for three-for-five. It looks terrible, of course, and the corporate sponsor stuff is only going to continue as long as Capitalism rules the United States, but this is a necessary evil for teams that want to make money and then spend it. If the Flyers ever lift the Stanley Cup, they can look like Ricky Bobby on ice skates for all we care. Wonderbread, Bimbo, IBX, Crypto.com, hell, put all of it on there.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com