I’d had a couple of people ask me over the course of last season about putting my banners on shirts, and every time, I had to rebuff them, because I knew if I did, it’d be about ten minutes before a cease and desist appeared. Then in December, I got home from vacation to find an email on an account I don’t check so often: The man himself wants to make the shirts.<\/p>\n
The guy whose shirt I wear every week is tracking me down to tell me he’s a fan and he wants to wear my<\/em> shirt. <\/p>\n Well, hell. Played email tag over the rest of the offseason; this is the first time I’ve had a fan project that involved consulting a lawyer (photo and merch rights). Finally got everything lined up, then worked out some designs. Had to bug three different real live graphic designer buddies (including a Dynamo fan) to ask them the best way of converting the source material for print, since I didn’t have access to a high enough resolution version of the original. Contracted out with a local screen shop, they ran ’em up, I picked ’em up, and that’s why Shalrie was here today to play with my cats and get the shirts he wanted. <\/p>\n Pretty much every stage of the process involved me remarking to my husband that this had gotten way out of hand–I mean, this was just some goofy idea I came up with in spinning class<\/a> one afternoon.<\/p>\n I love being an American soccer fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “So, wait, why’s Shalrie Joseph holding one of your cats?” That’s easy: He was here to grab a bunch of shirts we’d had run up to sell on his website. I’d had a couple of people ask me over the … tell me more ![](\"http:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/09banners\/fiercenavyshirt.jpg\"\/)
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