We’ve seen the fan club special shirt around here a handful of times before. Those times (and possibly plenty of others), the shirts had names. Names of fan club members and/or people who paid money to see their names on a shirt the club would wear. Those, my friends, were the old, lame days.
Today, by way of Football Fashion, I bring to you the future of the fan club shirt. It is both beautiful and hideous. You mustn’t look, but you can’t turn away. From Corinthians in Brazil, home of the fat Originaldo, comes the mugshot special.
The best that I can tell, this is a one-off shirt that will be worn on November 29th when Corinthians host Flamengo in the next to last round of the Brazilian national top flight. For the low price of about $450, you too can have your picture added to the shirt. As not all of the slots have been sold out, the above is just a mock-up. If the chart found as the second picture down on this page is to be believed, one could undertake quite the art project here.
Sure, it would probably cost you thousands of dollars, but a photomosaic shirt, possibly of something quite rude, would be one of the greatest trolls of all time. The best, I think, would be to arrange your black and white pictures so that the intertwining CRF of Flamengo show up at a distance. Oh, how I would laugh.
I imagine there are plenty of other options as well. Unfortunately, there are multiple level of difficulty that I am not willing to overcome on this project. First, you gotta raise the money. Then, since there doesn’t seem to be a link on the English version of Corinthians’ website, you’ll have to navigate the Portuguese one. Finally, you’ll have to compile a large number of black and white portrait photos and arrange them to show off what you want to show all the while sneaking it under the noses of whoever is in charge of making sure that rude images do not surface.
Or, you could just photoshop what you would do and we’ll post it here. Do it in the comments, or send it to the usual address. Either way, we’ll give you credit and see if we can fool someone out there with it.
Does it cost any extra for the nipple spot?
Medial saude? Sounds like somebody’s cooking knee ligaments and I would think Originaldo would be wary of that.
They stole this from the Saved by the Bell episode where they crash the car while drunk driving and charge people to sign Slater’s jersey to raise money to fix the car.