Baker Mayfield jersey sales lagging behind Tim Tebow’s
Sanity has left the building, as Tim Tebow jerseys are now outselling Baker Mayfield jerseys.
According to the NFL’s licensed merchandiser, Fanatics, Tim Tebow jerseys are listed as their No. 1 seller among NFL jerseys worldwide, outselling everyone else including Baker Mayfield of the Cleveland Browns.
Tebow jerseys are also No. 1 in Major League Baseball, and Tim Tebow has never even played Major League Baseball. Baker Mayfield is eighth, behind Tebow, Justin Fields, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Trevor Lawrence, Joe Burrow, and Dak Prescott. This is crazy.
Young players and players with new teams usually do well because people already have purchased their Mahomes or Baker jersey, so it doesn’t mean that Tebow is actually more popular than Mayfield, but even so, it’s totally crazy. And what are we to make of Tebow being No. 1 in baseball jersey sales?
If people are wondering why the Jacksonville Jaguars were foolish enough to sign a washed-up player to their 90-player roster, maybe part of the answer is that they thought they might make millions of dollars by doing so. They were so right.
Ticket revenue, TV revenue, national attention, all this craziness is worth money, especially if your team is the Jacksonville Jaguars. The rest of the NFL wants them to be well-behaved, lie down and roll over for the other 31 teams and lose calmly and peacefully. That sounds like a great idea if you live outside of Jacksonville.
But, if you’re Jacksonville, why do what the bullies want you to do? Are you going to just hand over your lunch money to the playground bully every day? No way.
Instead, make some noise, get the fans on your side, be the topic of national discussion. In the process, take some of the TV cameras away from Trevor Lawrence, who really doesn’t need all that media scrutiny anyway.
This fan likes Tim Tebow, follows him on social media, listens to what he has to say, and finds him to be a positive, very likable person, but really cannot explain why there is such a mad following for him, or conversely why so many other people hate him so much. It must be that America has bipolar disorder.
Tebow is just a regular guy who quarterbacked a team to a National Championship in college and ran like a fullback and threw footballs that looked like wounded ducks. In fact, they seemed to make quacking noises as they flew by.
Even so, that is way better than anything that most of us have ever done. In the pros, he won more starts than he lost, and he even started and won a playoff game. What the heck.
People who resent the fact that he gets so many second chances should quarterback a football team to the National Championship themselves, so that they too may receive unfair second chances from their coach.
In the meantime, this fan will not be buying a Tebow jersey, either in baseball or in football, thank you very much. Baker Mayfield is the quarterback of my team. Connor Davis is the longshot tight end for the Browns. Maybe I would rather have a Connor Davis jersey because he might really make the team as a run-blocking tight end.
In the long run, sanity will prevail and Baker Mayfield jerseys will far outsell Tim Tebow jerseys.
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For now, however, the NFL world is insane for Tim Tebow. Jacksonville Jaguars fans cannot be blamed for enjoying it while it lasts, but at some point, they will have to play football.