-Sports dad: how else can I let the world know that my team won the world series without the official shirt and matching ball cap.
-Sophisticated Sports Dad: No, I didn't go to Delaware. Why do I have a University of Delaware Band t-shirt, because I bought a subscription to this small T-Shirt company in Indiana that also supports my favorite podcast.
- Pop Culture dad: Hey, That's The Incredibles logo! I like that movie!
- Slightly Obscure Pop Culture: What is the USS Cerritos, and what is Cetacean Operations? Is he in the Navy? No, thats a Starfleet logo, he's just a Trekkie.
-Niche Pop Culture Dad: this shirt was only obtainable through a subscription or if you bought it within 24 hours after this episode aired, had a limited printing, and you only knew about it if you followed one of the creator's live blog. No one else in the world knows OSI and GCI Calamity Conference is or why you have a tshirt for it.
New category suggestion: Travel Dad! Shirt of places he's been. Like Buc-ees.
My wife has said of me that I am always, a). dressed like a cartoon character (in that I am wearing the same core outfit at all times), and b). that I am simultaneously over-dressed and under-dressed for every occasion.
Reading this while wearing my 10+ year old UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs shirt that was purchased after I read an article about the weirdest mascots in college sports. I did not attend college there but let's be real who could pass up a shirt that had a jacked slug on the front? I guess this makes me a Sports Dad?
Ahem. Lotta Homefield - wearing let's go Terps today, Mines Orediggers yesterday. DVA tailgating - with multiple team colors! With me this getaway week: Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale 2015. A restaurant across from IKEA in CT, yummy food - deserved a Tee. I guess that is a slight off shoot of Niche Show - singular location restraurant/ place. I have a billion dive shop tees from long ago. Have a superb 17th St. Surf Shop at home. And charity runs - have a bunch of those tees. And funny things happened and some one made a shirt : Four Seasons Lawn Gritty tee for a singular moment when the world was cray.
This weekend my own father was gushing about Homefield shirts (“they are just so comfortable and the designs are hilarious”), unknowingly about to receive a new Youngstown State edition as a gift from me. I have spread the homefield gospel, yet am far away from fatherhood, I think that makes me a Sophisticated Sports Dad
I feel like I’m happiest in a ringer shirt without a logo, just because I don’t want to have the conversations with someone who is way more into whatever than I’ll ever be. (“Yes, it’s a Tottenham jersey, no I haven’t seen that game from ‘83, I was not alive, yes I am a fan no I don’t have strong feelings about the academy...”)
My wife is wearing a University of Hawaii Rainbows Homefield shirt today, and I'm wearing an Austin Peay Governor monocle shirt. Did we attend either of these institutions of higher learning? No. Will we wear other shirts this week that are not are alma mater? Yes.
I've was embracing dad life at least a decade before I ever had a kid because I've always had a drawer of free t-shirts that I find myself wearing more and more because they fit well and seem to last.
I'm talking about a Red Cross shirt after donating blood, an Earth Day shirt from some event I don't remember, the shirt launched by a mascot at the game, golf outings, fun runs, three shirts from companies that don't exist anymore. The list goes on. Slap your bank's logo on a Gildan and in the back of my head a voice will say, "Ooh, I can wear that while I do yardwork or run errands, can never have too many of those."
“ He is wearing a t-shirt for a sports team, yes, but he does not actually support that particular team; he just thought the retro-styled design was really cool.”
Good morning, Homefield Apparel peeps. And never mind this vintage Goldy Gopher shirt I’m wearing.
Getting a knowing nod from other Dads for my band t-shirts makes me feel alive. Yes, guy in line with me to get bagels, we both dig The Mountain Goats. Have an awesome rest of your day.
I am, in order: Concert Dad, Sophisticated Sports Dad, Niche Pop Culture Dad, Sports Dad, the Slightly-Obscure Pop Culture Dad, and Chaos Dad, and if you replaced Beer Dad with Coffee and/or Record Shop Dad, it'd be in there too.
I have a lot of t-shirts, as working from home has virtually eliminated my need for anything else. I contain multitudes.
either chaos dad or niche pop culture dad here, given that I have a wide berth of graphic tees, like hte Cobra Dave Parker "boys boppin'" one, a stylized-as-the-Phillies "unionize the minors" tee which is about to become obsolete thanks to the minors unionizing, and the Monopoly Man as Gandalf with arms outstretched saying "YOU SHALL NOT PASS GO"
Here's my tip: make sure you have a absolutely *hideous* shirt that your family hates in the pile at any given time. Put it on before going out and when everyone is moaning "oh, god, dad looks like a hipster doofus," and "that saying wasn't funny back when it was new," "come on, my friends are going to be there, dad, the neck is all stretched out" etc etc then you can "compromise" and go back upstairs and put on any other comfy dad t-shirt you like: win-win.
I am sophisticated sports dad (thanks, homefield!) minoring in beer dad, pop culture dad, and concert dad.
Am I also a childless woman? Yes! Dad energy knows no bounds.
which category is DERTROIT BEISBOLCATS
Me, a list:
-Sports dad: how else can I let the world know that my team won the world series without the official shirt and matching ball cap.
-Sophisticated Sports Dad: No, I didn't go to Delaware. Why do I have a University of Delaware Band t-shirt, because I bought a subscription to this small T-Shirt company in Indiana that also supports my favorite podcast.
- Pop Culture dad: Hey, That's The Incredibles logo! I like that movie!
- Slightly Obscure Pop Culture: What is the USS Cerritos, and what is Cetacean Operations? Is he in the Navy? No, thats a Starfleet logo, he's just a Trekkie.
-Niche Pop Culture Dad: this shirt was only obtainable through a subscription or if you bought it within 24 hours after this episode aired, had a limited printing, and you only knew about it if you followed one of the creator's live blog. No one else in the world knows OSI and GCI Calamity Conference is or why you have a tshirt for it.
New category suggestion: Travel Dad! Shirt of places he's been. Like Buc-ees.
*glances nervously at dedicated Homefield drawer in dresser*
Polo shirt dad.
My wife has said of me that I am always, a). dressed like a cartoon character (in that I am wearing the same core outfit at all times), and b). that I am simultaneously over-dressed and under-dressed for every occasion.
Reading this while wearing my 10+ year old UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs shirt that was purchased after I read an article about the weirdest mascots in college sports. I did not attend college there but let's be real who could pass up a shirt that had a jacked slug on the front? I guess this makes me a Sports Dad?
Ahem. Lotta Homefield - wearing let's go Terps today, Mines Orediggers yesterday. DVA tailgating - with multiple team colors! With me this getaway week: Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale 2015. A restaurant across from IKEA in CT, yummy food - deserved a Tee. I guess that is a slight off shoot of Niche Show - singular location restraurant/ place. I have a billion dive shop tees from long ago. Have a superb 17th St. Surf Shop at home. And charity runs - have a bunch of those tees. And funny things happened and some one made a shirt : Four Seasons Lawn Gritty tee for a singular moment when the world was cray.
This weekend my own father was gushing about Homefield shirts (“they are just so comfortable and the designs are hilarious”), unknowingly about to receive a new Youngstown State edition as a gift from me. I have spread the homefield gospel, yet am far away from fatherhood, I think that makes me a Sophisticated Sports Dad
I feel like I’m happiest in a ringer shirt without a logo, just because I don’t want to have the conversations with someone who is way more into whatever than I’ll ever be. (“Yes, it’s a Tottenham jersey, no I haven’t seen that game from ‘83, I was not alive, yes I am a fan no I don’t have strong feelings about the academy...”)
My wife is wearing a University of Hawaii Rainbows Homefield shirt today, and I'm wearing an Austin Peay Governor monocle shirt. Did we attend either of these institutions of higher learning? No. Will we wear other shirts this week that are not are alma mater? Yes.
I've was embracing dad life at least a decade before I ever had a kid because I've always had a drawer of free t-shirts that I find myself wearing more and more because they fit well and seem to last.
I'm talking about a Red Cross shirt after donating blood, an Earth Day shirt from some event I don't remember, the shirt launched by a mascot at the game, golf outings, fun runs, three shirts from companies that don't exist anymore. The list goes on. Slap your bank's logo on a Gildan and in the back of my head a voice will say, "Ooh, I can wear that while I do yardwork or run errands, can never have too many of those."
“ He is wearing a t-shirt for a sports team, yes, but he does not actually support that particular team; he just thought the retro-styled design was really cool.”
Good morning, Homefield Apparel peeps. And never mind this vintage Goldy Gopher shirt I’m wearing.
Getting a knowing nod from other Dads for my band t-shirts makes me feel alive. Yes, guy in line with me to get bagels, we both dig The Mountain Goats. Have an awesome rest of your day.
I am, in order: Concert Dad, Sophisticated Sports Dad, Niche Pop Culture Dad, Sports Dad, the Slightly-Obscure Pop Culture Dad, and Chaos Dad, and if you replaced Beer Dad with Coffee and/or Record Shop Dad, it'd be in there too.
I have a lot of t-shirts, as working from home has virtually eliminated my need for anything else. I contain multitudes.
either chaos dad or niche pop culture dad here, given that I have a wide berth of graphic tees, like hte Cobra Dave Parker "boys boppin'" one, a stylized-as-the-Phillies "unionize the minors" tee which is about to become obsolete thanks to the minors unionizing, and the Monopoly Man as Gandalf with arms outstretched saying "YOU SHALL NOT PASS GO"
Here's my tip: make sure you have a absolutely *hideous* shirt that your family hates in the pile at any given time. Put it on before going out and when everyone is moaning "oh, god, dad looks like a hipster doofus," and "that saying wasn't funny back when it was new," "come on, my friends are going to be there, dad, the neck is all stretched out" etc etc then you can "compromise" and go back upstairs and put on any other comfy dad t-shirt you like: win-win.