T-Mac Jerseys?

[tukafan21]

48 minutes ago, Basbear said:

According to the website 2-4 weeks before the shipping starts, but that part is free currently. "Orders containing this item will be shipped separately 2-4 weeks after the player’s number is officially confirmed. Confirmation will take place no later than the start of the 2025 NFL regular season. Please trust your item will be produced and shipped as soon as possible."

I think he's already confirmed the number, it just hit me about the jersey and maybe it was the free shipping(24$ ??) that was hit today.  you can call the team store, but I doubt they got any information.  

goodluck!

 

Yea, they've "confirmed the number" but that is a generic disclaimer they use, it doesn't mean the jerseys will be shipped out in 2-4 weeks from now already (it also doesn't mean they won't either).

My guess is they'll start being shipped out a week or two after they start being sold in the team store, I can't see them shipping pre-orders before the store has them.

So if they're not in the store yet despite them confirming his number like 3-4 days ago already, then I wasn't going to order it yet as the blues and/or better version may become available by then, which is what I'd prefer.  

As I'd be kinda frustrated if I bought the black on pre-order now, and then in a few weeks when they still haven't shipped yet, they then start selling the blues and/or better quality versions of them and those ship out all at the same time anyways.

Edited May 1 by tukafan21

[csx]

Just wait. Why the hurry?

Every draft pick jersey across the league is in pre order status.

With as much as you love him just get the other color too when it becomes available 

Edited May 1 by csx

[jfra78]

3 minutes ago, csx said:

Just wait. Why the hurry?

Every draft pick jersey across the league is in pre order status

Gotta get them before the tariffs hit

[PNW_PantherMan]

8 minutes ago, csx said:

Just wait. Why the hurry?

Every draft pick jersey across the league is in pre order status.

With as much as you love him just get the other color too when it becomes available 

@tukafan21on draft day

 

[tukafan21]

24 minutes ago, csx said:

Just wait. Why the hurry?

Every draft pick jersey across the league is in pre order status.

With as much as you love him just get the other color too when it becomes available 

Full disclosure and the real reason....

I'll be seeing my Nephew in basically one month from today, and while I've gotten him stuff from my other teams the past year, I hadn't been willing to saddle him with Panthers stuff yet, that's now changed lol.

So if the jersey would get to me before I see him, I'd get that and him his first Panthers onesie/shirt so I can get a picture of us together in them.

If it wouldn't get to me by then, I'd just wait to get the one I prefer.  So yea, my rush is really just about trying to get a picture of myself in it with my Nephew in Panthers gear too.

[tukafan21]

26 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

@tukafan21on draft day

 

Not totally inaccurate, haha

Except that kid wasn't as excited as I was.  I was yelling louder, and more, and running around the room in circles until I almost passed out from exhausting and was trying to catch my breath for a good 10 minutes because I'm way too old to be doing that, LOLOL

Oh, and I tweaked a muscle in my shoulder from all the punching the air I was doing too.

For as awesome as that pick was for me, it really screwed me up for a few days between my shoulder and lost voice (Wrexham securing back-to-back-to-back promotions Saturday afternoon contributed to that though too).

Edited May 1 by tukafan21

[SOJA]

On 4/29/2025 at 3:12 PM, tukafan21 said:

 

Ugh, I didn't even realize until today that they only versions they have for T-Mac right now are the ones where everything is heat pressed on, not the "fake stitched" versions you guys are talking about here.

I've always hated those fully screen pressed ones, they just seem cheat and crappy to me, and even though that next step up is still not the best, they at least feel like more of a real jersey to me and is worth the extra 35 bucks to get them.

But of course they don't sell them in that one yet, which is weird, if they're all still "pre-orders" anyways, why aren't they offering the more expensive version to steal even more money from the rubes out there like myself who just can't help themselves?!?!?

the thing is even the Authentic jerseys are trash now, they are this weird stretchy fiber instead of a mesh jersey. Definitely more fragile than old jerseys

 

again Nike/Fanatics is ruining jerseys 

[tukafan21]

3 hours ago, SOJA said:

the thing is even the Authentic jerseys are trash now, they are this weird stretchy fiber instead of a mesh jersey. Definitely more fragile than old jerseys

 

again Nike/Fanatics is ruining jerseys 

Or is it that the jerseys have just improved so much over the years that what is best for players to wear, may have reached a tipping point to where it's now a weird material/style for fans to be wearing?

[tukafan21]

It also occurred to me that they might not even be able to start shipping these out until he signs his contract and is officially on the team, that could be why they are still a pre-order even though they've confirmed his number already.

[CRA]

1 minute ago, tukafan21 said:

Or is it that the jerseys have just improved so much over the years that what is best for players to wear, may have reached a tipping point to where it's now a weird material/style for fans to be wearing?

or....their job is to sell as many jersey's as humanly possible.  Which mean like products all over the map.....they are designed to intentionally have a shorten shelf life....so that you have to buy more.   They don't want you to buy a jersey someone's rookie season and it last for their career.  They need you to comeback and buy it again. 

[tukafan21]

12 minutes ago, CRA said:

or....their job is to sell as many jersey's as humanly possible.  Which mean like products all over the map.....they are designed to intentionally have a shorten shelf life....so that you have to buy more.   They don't want you to buy a jersey someone's rookie season and it last for their career.  They need you to comeback and buy it again. 

I really don't think that's the case in the slightest, if that's what they really wanted, they'd change uniforms to the soccer model where they get new jerseys literally every single season, so if you don't get the new one each year, you no longer have the team's current version.

And just because it "feels like cheap stretchy material" because it's different than what it used to be, it doesn't mean they're going to fall apart, as if anything, they're more likely than not more durable.

If jerseys rarely tear during NFL games, I don't think every day John Smith out there is going to be wearing his jersey into the ground when they wear it 20 times a year for games, draft, fantasy draft, etc.  

 

[CRA]

43 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

I really don't think that's the case in the slightest, if that's what they really wanted, they'd change uniforms to the soccer model where they get new jerseys literally every single season, so if you don't get the new one each year, you no longer have the team's current version.

And just because it "feels like cheap stretchy material" because it's different than what it used to be, it doesn't mean they're going to fall apart, as if anything, they're more likely than not more durable.

If jerseys rarely tear during NFL games, I don't think every day John Smith out there is going to be wearing his jersey into the ground when they wear it 20 times a year for games, draft, fantasy draft, etc.  

 

yeah, but the actual jersey Bryce Young is wearing is not the same jersey you are buying from Fanatics. 

it's why the fine print on even the highest tier jersey you can buy.....is very specific.  And they use words like inspired, closest to, better than lower variants. 

[tukafan21]

1 hour ago, CRA said:

yeah, but the actual jersey Bryce Young is wearing is not the same jersey you are buying from Fanatics. 

it's why the fine print on even the highest tier jersey you can buy.....is very specific.  And they use words like inspired, closest to, better than lower variants. 

Even then, it's comical to think they have made them poorly to purposefully fall apart so people have to buy more.

How often does someone need to wear (or maybe more accurately wash) a jersey for it to start to fall apart?

Seriously, unless you wear it while playing backyard football and it's constantly getting pulled on or something, I can't see what an adult is doing to wear out a football jersey to where it needs to be replaced.

[CRA]

53 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Even then, it's comical to think they have made them poorly to purposefully fall apart so people have to buy more.

How often does someone need to wear (or maybe more accurately wash) a jersey for it to start to fall apart?

Seriously, unless you wear it while playing backyard football and it's constantly getting pulled on or something, I can't see what an adult is doing to wear out a football jersey to where it needs to be replaced.

 Well, I think Nike has it all down to a sweet mathematical science to max revenue of what they average person will buy in terms of price....and what the average person will do with a dirty jersey.   Then they construct them accordingly.  

and yeah, it's not about being tackled in them but I'm sure Nike knows exactly how each tier will react to washings...and then sunlight, heat, fading and on and on.    Just asking google about it there are tons of tiktoks, you tubes, reddit posts, etc with folks complaining about what a simple wash can do to a new one.   

Your washing machine gets cooler tech....so you pay more now and it doesn't last as long .  My son's football cleats that help max speed got a hole in them before they even made it into the season this past year.     Now our football jersey's are lightweight with new mesh because it's totally better.....the end game is always because the big corporations have found the synergy between new and improved and not lasting as long. 

That's my take.  I think everything is made to wear out sooner under the guise of but it's better today.