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Post by Burst on Jul 18, 2012 16:12:53 GMT -5
...Not when the WWE insists on changing t-shirts every six months or less. Punk's white Best In The World shirt has probably come the closest of any wrestling shirt lately in terms of proliferation, but then they tried first unsuccessfully with the ice cream shirt and then semi-successfully with Punk's Chicago police badge shirt to cover it up.
Not saying that the police badge shirt is a bad shirt, it's just missing the it-factor that the BitW shirt had, which might explain why Punk continued to break it out here and there for a while, and why it stuck around longer than most t-shirts on the shop website.
There was also the potential with Cena's Rise Above Hate shirt which is probably the first shirt of his I've seen more than a substantial amount of older male fans wearing, which was promptly discarded at Wrestlemania for a shirt that seems to embody everything cheesy about his shirts. There was also the Nexus shirt, which had soooooort of started to get there by virtue of its sharp yellow and black simplicity and standing-out-in-a-crowd-ness, despite the lame back design, before Nexus kind of died its slow, whimpering death.
I'm still convinced that there'll never be a shirt as iconic or as prolific as the Austin 3:16 or nWo shirts with the current management, which is odd because I'm willing to bet those two shirts made up for in sheer volume the same profit they'd probably make from rotating the t-shirts every few months.
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Post by kidglov3s on Jul 18, 2012 16:15:48 GMT -5
I think Cena's primary color shirts are more iconic than the Rise Above Hate shirt, which always came off kind of like SCU or something to me. Like those shirts are so Cena.
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Post by Society of the Spectacle on Jul 18, 2012 16:25:02 GMT -5
I honestly think it has more to do with the fan's and humanity's in general shorter attention span. I think we've had some iconic shirts over the past few years, but shirts, just like angles and programs have a shorter lifespan these days.
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Post by CMWaters on Jul 18, 2012 16:28:47 GMT -5
I see these threads and just think how long THIS shirt was circulated for:  |
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Jul 18, 2012 16:30:30 GMT -5
Stone Cold had a million shirts. How long did he actually wear the original for?
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jul 18, 2012 16:31:09 GMT -5
I honestly think it has more to do with the fan's and humanity's in general shorter attention span. I think we've had some iconic shirts over the past few years, but shirts, just like angles and programs have a shorter lifespan these days. I think it has more to do with the fact that no matter how fast they make new shirts people buy them. I'm pretty sure that if they would've came out with a new Hulk Rules shirt every 6 months, people would've bought them then too. Its not a generation thing. |
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jul 18, 2012 16:32:31 GMT -5
These had potential to be "iconic".   |
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Post by CMWaters on Jul 18, 2012 16:35:53 GMT -5
Also, if they lasted longer and were more dominant, this could easily have become iconic.  |
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Jul 18, 2012 20:06:07 GMT -5
Stone Cold had a million shirts. How long did he actually wear the original for? At least one full year. I remember RAW in the summer of 1997 still having them on. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 20:11:27 GMT -5
Also, if they lasted longer and were more dominant, this could easily have become iconic. I don't think so, it's far too gaudy. The nWo and Austin shirts had a starkness that made them badass, the Nexus shirt is loud and goofy looking. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 18, 2012 20:31:18 GMT -5
Also, if they lasted longer and were more dominant, this could easily have become iconic.  This one was far better. Not so gaudy. |
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jul 18, 2012 20:57:16 GMT -5
Stone Cold had a million shirts. How long did he actually wear the original for? At least one full year. I remember RAW in the summer of 1997 still having them on. I don't think he got a new shirt until late '97-early '98. |
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Post by therageofeeyore on Jul 18, 2012 21:00:23 GMT -5
I think the Nexus shirt was pretty iconic. Simple shirt that represented a groundbreaking stable....even tho they successfully effed it all up....it was still pretty awesome to see so many people in the nexus shirt....even tho they were a heel group.
Plus Punk's BITW shirt was pretty iconic, too. I'd love to have one.
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Post by BigWill on Jul 18, 2012 21:12:30 GMT -5
Also, if they lasted longer and were more dominant, this could easily have become iconic. I don't think so, it's far too gaudy. The nWo and Austin shirts had a starkness that made them badass, the Nexus shirt is loud and goofy looking. I believe I saw reports come out back then that actually said the Nexus shirts were outselling even the Cena shirts at the time. So gaudy or not, I guess people liked them. |
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Post by Jimmy on Jul 18, 2012 21:22:09 GMT -5
Even if Austin 3:16 was coined in June 96, I'm pretty sure the shirt didn't come into fruition until 1997. By mid 1998, Austin already had a bunch of other shirts he rotated.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jul 18, 2012 21:40:52 GMT -5
Even if Austin 3:16 was coined in June 96, I'm pretty sure the shirt didn't come into fruition until 1997. By mid 1998, Austin already had a bunch of other shirts he rotated. I think the original Austin 3:16 shirt was fall/winter 1996, though I can't confirm at the moment as I'm away from home and away from my Raw 1996 tapes... |
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Post by BigBadZ on Jul 18, 2012 21:48:33 GMT -5
Also, if they lasted longer and were more dominant, this could easily have become iconic.   Sorry to jump a little off topic, but my biggest gripe on shirts is the TM next to the logo. WWE shirts tend to have the little 'WWE Authentic' patch on the bottom right side and I can get around that, but why do they put Austin 3:16 TM on it? I never had original shirts from the 90s but my Nexus shirt has it like the photo. |
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Post by Mac on Jul 18, 2012 21:50:54 GMT -5
Unless like I fear pro wrestling has gone the way of public terrestrial radio and that we're going to deal with a watered down milque toast product for eternity than I guess we'll see something again. We're mired more in 1994 right now than 1998, but you never know it could turn around....
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Post by percymania on Jul 18, 2012 22:48:17 GMT -5
I think the CM Punk Best in the World shirt is on that level.
I believe the WWE could produce another entity as large or larger than Stone Cold or the NWO someday.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 23:00:11 GMT -5
WWE was huge in the 90's. I'm sure their was a lot more Stone Cold Steve Austin shirts or NWO shirts out at the time. It's just everyone wanted the shirt that all their friends have. Hell I think in one point they had the most amount of merchandise in retail shops than any corporation or sports league or show.
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