Sticker Decal

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Playing the game of American Football is one of the greatest pastimes is U.S. history. It is loved by so many that it has been called "Americas Sport" on occasion. As players get out on the field, they compete against each other and try to exhibit all of the techniques and maneuvers that they have learned in their prior games and practices. As you get into the games, there are many different stats that are kept up with such as rushing yards, passing yards, touchdowns, tackles, interceptions, etc. There will be at least 1 person for each team that it is their job to basically sit there the entire game and keep track of who did what and when.

These stats can be honored by teams and coaches by giving the particular players a certain decal to wear on their helmet. It isn't generally used in the NFL, but it is generally used throughout high school and college. Each team has their own standards but basically you would get one sticker per stat. You know how you can watch a high school game or college game and one player has a ton of extra stickers or decals on his helmet, while others only have a few? Those are the decals I am talking about. So, for instance, it could go something like this. You would get 1 sticker for every touchdown you scored, or you could get one for every touchdown you threw as the quarterback. You may get 1 sticker for every tackle you make on defense or they may give them out in groups of five. For instances, you get 1 sticker for every five tackles you make. Same thing goes for interceptions. I have even heard that some teams give out 1 special sticker to 1 player in each game that had the "best hit" of the game on defense.

So, what you can take from this is that when you see one of these games, either college or high school, and there is a player that looks like he is covered in these stickers, it is very likely that he is a very good player.

These stickers can also have a positive effect on the players as well. A player that is doing well truly does need to be rewarded and let me tell you, it is an awesome feeling to have a helmet full of these stickers. It really builds confidence. These football helmet decals can also serve as motivation to other players to work hard so that they can receive them as well. It truly does help in self esteem and confidence when you reward a player for doing well, as well as teach others that "slacking" isn't going to cut it.

Work harder, get yourself some of these football helmet decals and you will notice a huge difference even in your play on the field... simply from the confidence boost. If you haven't noticed before, check it out next time you see a game on the television, or when you are at the game. Again, this isn't practiced in the NFL, but is all the way through college.

-A sports enthusiast that played sports his entire life and now loves to write about his personal experiences as well as do many product reviews for others to help them make their ultimate decisions.

So who sells decals anyway?

Before I was recruited to sell screen-printing in 1978, I never really had a consciousness of what a decal was or how it was printed.  Here is one scenario you will see about as often as a Rush Limbaugh book signing at a Democratic National Convention:   When asked by their grandmother or an interested stranger, “What do you want to be when you grow-up?” a child responding, “ I want to be a decal salesperson!”  No such heart beats in the chest of any child.  You’ll simply never hear one say, “Decals are my desired vocation.  I’ve known it since before I could know!”

Such is the oddity then that is the creation of a decal salesperson…how did we become that which is not desired by anyone seeking business success? 

Some of us likely remember that one twenty something guy who came to your parent’s party’s bearing gifts,  not for the adults, but for the little lads and lasses of the home.  What gifts could this adult bring to wow and keep the attention of these little people long after they’d gone?  This person brought with them iconic images of the day:  “Surf’s Up” decals, a shredder decal of ghastly skulls and bones or the images found on the car of a fast track NASCAR winner.   These kids would gladly grasp these images and slap them onto their bikes, lockers, bike helmets, skis and snowboards.  Even the adult overlords of these giddy children desire some of this persons work.  How about a Mustang logo or a “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” sticker?  Or perhaps the more common and refined bumper image, “My Child is an Honor Student” bumper sticker? 

So some of us do know a person who makes and sells decals, did such people propel those of us who sell from fascinated child into actually choosing this vocation?   No, I don’t think even that caused us to choose a profession that truly gets no respect.  Case in point:  I remember flying one day on a business trip, dressed to the nine’s and seated next to a fellow businessman also in full regalia.  He asked me the question that all businessmen ask each other on a plane:  “What do you do?”  The proud decal salesperson that I am,  I respond (unashamed and with unbridled excitement), “ I sell decals.”  As the words leave my lips I see the anticlimactic reaction of the fellow as he says (undoubtedly trying to deflate my over extended ego), “Is that a hobby?”   I now have to advise him of his incredulous ignorance and I retort by pointing out that the designs decorating the fine china he has at home are in fact decals!  Did I regain my respect?  Maybe not. But I go on to peddle my no respect decals nonetheless.

It is interesting that many a product cannot ship unless it has a no respect decal affixed to it.  The absence of a no-respect, 5 cent decal can shut down a production line.  It certainly gets respect then!

So why do we who hock decals do it?  It is in our blood!  Screen-print inks, mixed with PVC, course through our veins.  We are hooked!   We love saying to family members and total strangers, “See that XM Satellite Radio decal over there?  I made that.”  With our egos intact and profit margins dancing in our heads, we go on selling into the sunset.

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Doug Bryant

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I'm trying to find an in loving memory decal sticker with a football on it?

I have recently lost two friends that were football players and i am working on making two decal stickers for my back windshield on my car that says in loving memory of _________ with a football on it. And where i can put dates on it. Help please?

We have made "In Loving Memory..." decals for other customers. The way we generally make these decals - we put "In Loving Memory" across the top.. the persons name in the center and dates at the bottom.

You could place a football in the center - then just below the football, include the name and dates below that.

If you would like us to make you a custom decal, check out our website at www.GoVinyl.com

Hope this helps!

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