The Pirates run a promotion every year called free shirt Friday. It was a pretty cool promotion in which a ticket to a Friday home game would also net you a t-shirt. The shirt is usually sponsored by an area business so the downfall is you would have some type of company logo placed prominently on the back. While most of the shirts are pretty nice, some funny ones pop up.
Usually the more outrageous shirts are the ones that feature an actual player. If you want a good gag gift may I suggest this AJ Burnett shirt.
The crazy thing is this shirt actually sells well on the secondary market. I've been trying to buy it for one of my friends because we made so much fun of it, but it goes for way more than I would be willing the spend.
When they first started this promotion I would make it a point to try and go to as many as possible. In recent years the traffic to get to a Pirates game on a Friday has been outrageous because of construction so I've missed out on many of the cool shirts.
Last month I was searching for something on eBay and a nice lot of some of the better shirts from last season popped up.
I ended up winning the auction for around $27 if I recall so it turned out to be a cheap way to update the Pirate t-shirt collection.
Let me know if you guys would like an AJ Burnett tshirt to wear around.......
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I read this post title as "Free Shit Friday."
ReplyDeleteThat works too I guess.
DeleteThe pixelized parrot shirt is cool!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that one is my favorite of the stack, too!
DeleteI really wanted to go to the game that shirt was part of, but like I said above with Friday traffic it makes the trip very painful.
DeleteThose are all pretty cool. I'm really into the faded look that those all have so in my mind you did pretty good on getting those.
ReplyDeleteDo you wear them, or display them all somehow?
I'm going to wear them. No tshirt collecting for me. From the sales on eBay it looks that a lot of people collect all the stadium giveaways. Some of the early stuff PNC Park gave away is worth a good bit now.
DeletePretty cool promotion!
ReplyDeleteIt is probably the best promotion they have. The kids stuff they do on Sundays is pretty cool too.
DeleteTop left is my favorite, great deal you got. One shirt costs that much
ReplyDeleteThe only one I didn't care for too much was the top right, but the deal was too good to pass because the other 5 were pretty cool.
DeleteI still have mine from when I was out there in August. Great promotion
ReplyDeleteIt is probably the second most successful promotion behind the Fireworks/concert promotions.
DeleteThat's a bad ass Burnett shirt.He's a hard nosed gamer.
ReplyDeleteI just don't think I could bring myself to wear the Burnett shirt. It is a little too cheesy....
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