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April 14, 2005
In My White Light Blue Tee
The Carolina blue "Dynasty" tees can now be easily mail-ordered for $17.00 postpaid via this Paypal form on the newly created thanksrashad.com are no longer available, but this is what thanksrashad.com used to look like. For every T-shirt sold (whether online or at Schoolkids), we will be donating $5.00 to The Inter-Faith Council, an Orange County charity that does a great job of providing food and shelter and other services to local people in need. I felt like we should do this once it became clear that the shirts would wind up making a pretty decent profit. Because my motivations for making this T-shirt had everything to do with design aesthetics and Carolina pride and the simple fact that I wanted to wear one....and not some sort of desire to capitalize on the recent NCAA Championship. I guess the marketplace of ideas and the marketplace of goods are often one and the same. At any rate, you can now buy a swank light blue tee as a parting tribute to the NBA-bound Rashad McCants and simultaneously feel good about the five bucks that you just sent towards people who are much less fortunate than Rashad.
While I'm talking about Carolina-related tees printed up by The Merch, it should be noted that Jackie Manuel not only has a posse, but the defensive standout is now giving shout-outs to his posse. During a very gracious and eloquent "senior speech" at the end of Tuesday night's UNC 2004-05 Basketball Awards Ceremony, Manuel thanked the fans and went on to say, "I also want to give a shout-out to my posse". Thanks, Jackie! It was definitely an honor to be a part of your posse. Good luck as a pro player for some lucky basketball team somewhere. Here's a RealPlayer stream of Manuel's speech...the sound quality isn't so great, but the posse shout-out is around the 2:44 mark. The "Jackie Manuel Has a Posse" tees are still available at Schoolkids and hopefully they'll be up on The Merch web site very soon. Get 'em now before Jackie graduates!
This will hopefully be my last basketball-related post....well, at least for the next six months.
Posted by Tim at April 14, 2005 08:19 PM
Comments
I'm glad to hear that you all are donating some profits to the Inter-Faith Council. That's a great thing to do.
And although I don't understand all the basketball hoopla, I have to say, from an aesthetic viewpoint, your shirt is the most attractive of the bunch that I've seen around town.
You coming out tonight to celebrate with the Master's Paper finishers?
Posted by: robin at April 15, 2005 02:04 PM
hooray! nice teeshirts. am ordering one immediately. my jackie shirt has already been worn almost too many times and I'm going to have to be careful not to overwash it.
thanks for the link to the banquet speech -- let's hope he lands somewhere we can keep an eye on!
Posted by: claire at April 27, 2005 06:50 PM