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Hardass Local Entrepreneur Thinks it’s “Disgusting” When His Employees Wear Eagles and Phillies Gear
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This might be the worst TikTok I’ve ever seen (since deleted, but Pagan has it) –
@lancebachmann Take the jersey off. They don’t know your name. You’re in the office repping millionaires who wouldn’t show up to your funeral. They don’t pay your bills. They don’t feed your kids. But you’re proudly wearing their brand? Not in my company. We wear what we built. We rep the logos that pay us. 🎙️ Full episode from my podcast with @Tommy Mello. For the full conversation, tune in to Exit Rich: Home Service Secrets, everywhere you listen to podcasts or just click the link in bio. #roofersoftiktok #roofers #homeservices ♬ original sound – Lance Bachmann
“I think it’s disgusting, when I see people wearing Eagles gear, and Phillies gear… A game’s totally different, but when people are wearing it… You heard the story with one of the (Munz Roofing and Siding) guys, we won the Super Bowl and he’s wearing an Eagles hat in the office and I literally walked up to him and said ‘what are you doing?’ He’s like, ‘what?’ And I’m like, ‘you’re wearing an Eagles hat in my building.’ He’s like, ‘we just won the Super Bowl,’ and I’m like, ‘remove the hat or leave my building.’ The Eagles don’t care about you, they’re not coming to your funeral, they don’t pay your kids’ bills. We support nothing but LB Capital or the brands we represent here. And I just have that across all my businesses.”
This is my first time hearing of Lance Bachmann, who seems like a fun guy to work for. Looks like he’s a Temple alum who runs something called “LB Capital,” which scales small home service businesses and then sells to private equity. He’s one of these serial entrepreneur types of people and founded 1SEO, which is a digital marketing company, and – WAIT – what’s this? A Bachmann-era picture of employees wearing Eagles gear? –
Anyway, to the TikTok video, the fact that anybody would care about this is comical. What could possibly bother you about an employee showing up in an Eagles hat or a Phillies shirt? If you have a company dress code, fine, but let’s not act like some dude from “Munz Roofing and Siding” is wearing anything classier than a branded polo in the first place. Are we scheduling shingle jobs out of Bucks County or running a Parisian fashion show here?
There’s always been a shared cultural thing in Philadelphia when it comes to sport. People connect over this stuff. You see another fan at Wawa and they hold the door open and say “Go Birds.” Or you strike up a conversation at the water cooler and talk about a big win or a some hot button topics, like the tush push and the Eagles’ passing game. There’s nothing remotely harmful in fans being fans and exhibiting some civic pride in the local team. Totally innocuous. In fact, it’s probably good for morale and overall productivity when you have a happy employee coming in and repping their team on Monday morning, bonding, perhaps, with like-minded individuals. It creates a connectivity and sense of community. You’re gonna get more effort and buy-in by letting employees be themselves, as opposed to forcing some fake entrepreneur tough guy mentality on them. Lance Bachmann seems like the type of boss who, if he ran an elementary school, for instance, would tell the 1st grade teacher not to wear her Saquon Barkley jersey on Friday. We’re strictly business at Hardass Elementary!
That’s the main problem with the entrepreneurial scene. Fake alphas. Most of these guys sniff themselves to the point where their heads wind up stuck in their rear ends. It’s all business all the time! Even after the Eagles win the Super Bowl. This guy works in roofing and thinks he’s Gordon fucking Gekko.
Finally, the blanket assertion that the teams don’t care about the fans is demonstrably false. Maybe the corporate suits at the top do not, which is deliciously ironic for this particular blog, but we’ve been blessed over the years to have a lot of blue collar players and wives/girlfriends who go out of their way to sign autographs and take pictures and run local charity efforts. Do the Flyers not care about the fans when they build hockey rinks around the region? Does the Eagles Autism Foundation exist only for the purpose of keeping up appearances?
It makes you wonder what Lance Bachmann would think about DeVonta Smith’s fiance doing this:
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