Fashion bailout

While everyone's bitching about paying out bonuses for AIG executives, are we still paying $100 million to sponsor the jerseys of Manchester United? I'm all for promotion, and really what better vessel than the world's most popular soccer football team, but hasn't AIG been in the news enough that they don't really need a promotional expenditure of that magnitude? Sure, it's 'collapse' this, and 'dirty crooked fuckers' that, but front pages are front pages.

Can we at least get the American flag on the front of ManU's shirt? Perhaps the Fed logo? Ben Bernanke's giant bald head? A characticture of a nervous Tim Geithner on a dune buggy looking like he wished he stayed in the private sector?

Corporate logos on the front of the jerseys....bleh. Smarten up soccer world, American sports only like to keep our embarrassing linkages to failure on the stadium facade, not the uniform. Unless that uniform is of the Detroit Lions or Pittsburgh Pirates, then failure is part of the outfit.