woo sports ball man he HT that touchdown
right between the pipes it's time to celebrate with some tunes and some
gaming uh combining two things you love should
be a winning strategy and thanks to a recent comment our eyes have been opened
to the combination of tech and supporting our favorite sports teams
just look at all the Branded headphones Bluetooth speakers wireless chargers
mice and keyboards that you can buy can buy but should you buy them the short
answer is no the long answer is no and a
fascinating Rabbit Hole of outrageous markups skey sales tactics and outright
false advertising and the deeper we went the clearer it became that someone
needed to blow the whistle just like I'm going to blow the whistle on our
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with the Kansas City Chief's logo wireless Bluetooth gaming headphones and
stand I hadn't actually seen the stand before we started to
shoot this is truly unexceptional as for
the headphones themselves they're not the worst that I've
seen
oh they do the same thing as the Tommy Hill fig ones where you push on them and
you can actually hear the driver's Buckle we kick these over to the lab to
test though and shockingly the frequency
response curve is not that far off our Target I got to hear this it's kind of
mind-blowing how good these look on paper yeah they're a little Basse heavy
but it's down in the subbase where it should add to the rumble of a bass
guitar or a kick drum without making the overall sound boomy or muddy I wouldn't
describe them as having sparkly accurate Highs but they're serviceable there's
some weird electrical sounds when skipping forward and backward though
even the boom mic is good though that's not to say that it's without bugs PC
Gamers will need to plug in this wimpy 5ft extension cable in order to use the
boom mic because it doesn't get detected it seems to be a design limitation
though rather than a defect since the PS5 picks it up no problem console
Gamers will probably be pretty happy then cuz even if you have an Xbox or a
PS4 they include this separate little mini mic to plug into to your controller
how about pricing then let's check out the product page we'll just head over to
nflshop.com easy enough to remember given they never shot up about it I
wouldn't know anything about that if LTT Store LTT Store LTT Store LTT Store hey
LTT Store.com 8 bucks for personalization that's pretty reasonable
though I don't know if I could say the same about the price in general $100 is
a lot for these everything considered I mean fair enough it does have bold
printed graphics so you can listen to The Game Day broadcast but there's some
other pretty questionable stuff here 100% plastic that would be impressive if
true and if these are made in the USA I
will eat them they're supposed to be a label or a sticker yeah that's America
right there that could be a legitimate problem for the NFL if anyone ever
catches them and there's some other weird stuff here too some of the product
labels make sense officially licensed gear customized item special event item
pretty self-explanatory but others are kind of nebulous what's a manufacturer
direct item and why doesn't the NFL run its own web store we're going to get to
that one in a bit first we noticed that while the KC Chief's logo appears to be
simply printed onto blank ear covers just because one team has a certain item
available doesn't necessarily mean that your team will too in spite of how
easily it apparently could though maybe
that's not always a bad thing let's see what's up with these peripherals ooh
Toronto Raptors repping
Canada and the Bengals this is an interesting
combination what what that doesn't sound quality to you it's the vinyl wrap that
seems to be over top of what would be a mouse pad with a chi charging spot on it
I got to say with this textured partly glossy partly matte wrap on it though it
would be a miracle if even a good Mouse tracked on it never mind this one where
are my dongles at oh there it
is okay black dongle for the
keyboard oh yeah and a white dongle for
the mouse that's actually kind of
nice the Labs test this yes shut up even
though it's 2.4 G Herz given its
performance this thing might as well be Bluetooth 37 milliseconds of average
latency 50 milliseconds Max I thought
this might just be Windows being
unresponsive but this feels like a delay even opening the freaking start menu how
about the
mouse the mouse is no better 30
milliseconds average 45 Max the mouse apparently has no rated DPI but what we
do know is that it's less than 12200 because we would have needed that for
Mouse tester 1.4 by the way shout out r/ Mouse review does the charging at least
work all right all right I guess this is less about performance and more about
repping the brand though should we at least look at the print quality seems
like it's actually pretty good bold
vibrant colors hold on a second hold on
a second what do these keys do this is
an F this is just F5 this just refreshes
the web page that button's right here
okay what's up and down back and forward in the browser I mean I guess if your
crappy Mouse doesn't have back and forward buttons on it all right do
maternal time this mouse is so squishy that's the best way that I can describe
it you know if you want to game badly enough and you're at your sport fan
uncle's house you'd find a way to make this work you'd be compensating for a
lot of slop though both the accuracy and
precision were again worse than the Tommy Hill Figure Set and that's not
even when we're pushing it to the Limit if you try to do a 360 no scope just
whipping this around on the pad it completely loses its ability to track
completely I am not even moving it that fast right now oh wow that's bad there's
one more thing I'm curious about before it became a Bengals mouse pad what was
this okay no see it felt like it was
just a vinyl wrap over an otherwise something product but actually it's just
a vinyl wrap over a piece of
cardboard there okay yeah there's a
choil and a small circuit board total
bomb cost for this I'm guessing about $2.50 how much did we pay for it $60
us oh now I feel bad about destroying it
any who so these are garbage and you should only buy them if you want to
punish your former BFF who you had a falling out with for supporting Rival
Sports ball team club but there's a much
more interesting takeaway here in spite of the spotty availability of NFL
branded merch from Team to team we are now running into duplicate items across
entirely different sports leagues so who exactly is Fanatics the group that
evidently is running the NFL shop the site looks basically the same as the NFL
one except that you can buy anything here according to this article from
boardroom dotv they got into the sports gear game back in 1998 and have grown to
the point where they claim to be worth more than all 32 NHL teams combined not
only do these guys have deals with the four big sports leagues but they also
deal in branded apparel for college sports Motorsports golf wrestling the
Olympics and even Esports to top it off
pun intended last last year they closed a deal to practically take over the
sports trading card scene too now that we know where everything's coming from
let's check out a couple more products as someone who's seen a lot of cheap
knockoff earphones let me tell you if we
hadn't bought these from an officially licensed store I would be pretty sure
these are them look at the size of this
receiver piece micro USB charging what year is
it wow everything from the packaging to
the looks to the Comfort Peak wish.com
tier I can't believe I bought all this stuff oh that's a cute idea it's a
Bluetooth speaker in the shape of a puck
it has a Micro SD
slot okay testing one two three 1 two 3
testing testing 1 two 3 testing how do I
skip the track 2 3 why would you want to skip that testing 1 2 3 1 2 3 testing
testing 1 2 3 well we'll give it a little while it should theoretically
survive half an hour with an IP67
rating oh it actually survived half an hour once already impressive it's hard
to tell with the song that I'm listening to I'm not super familiar with it but
seems to sound kind of all right waterproofness aside then this stuff
sucks too so what's the deal here while we don't know much about fanatic's
corporate structure or their other dealings there are a lot of red flags
here you need to click this tiny link to explicitly opt out of them selling your
personal information their customer testimonials are few and read as though
their VP of marketing wrote them and they use cringe high- pressure sales
tactics to drive you to purchase Oh no this 65% off Banner will surely
disappear forever in just a few short hours whatsoever shall I do I'd say
don't worry about it because a it'll be back and B it doesn't apply to winning
teams or athletes player grade jerseys and headwear any brands that you would
actually want to buy from or at fanatic's own discretion any other brand
or product so basically it's an artificial discount on crappy stuff that
they just applied astronomical markups to ahead of time or I guess their own
branded products which is not fundamentally a problem as long as the
quality is good oh
their satisfaction guarantee says all the right reassuring things but nobody
picked up when we called during business hours on a Friday and the community
response to their upcoming NHL Uniform Partnership deal has been unenthusiastic
to say the least so it would appear that our experience wasn't unique but
whatever the quality of fanatic's products might be the ones we've
actually been looking at today seem to come from someone else
keyscaper you know someone actually asked me why we don't do Bluetooth
headphones on LTT Store.com this is why
there are enough Bluetooth headphones in the world oh my God there's another
micro SD slot also these are for kids oh
no I'm about to find out how much we paid for these
$80 it doesn't say these are for kids some jerkwad product manager just didn't
care enough to notice that these are are way too small
I wear a small siiz motorcycle helmet
okay if it's small on me it's flipping
tiny what I'm more interested in is this more advanced technology better and
stronger materials more reasonable decision design I mean
look I mean yeah you you can Tech whoa
oh they cracked I wouldn't recommend
that this is the cheapest generic crap
whoa they are light what the left one
doesn't even work they even sound cheap when you drop
them on the table and I can barely get it open I give up I can't get these
paired but the reality of it is I'm not missing out on much and if I was really
upset about it I could get the same experience for Less keyscaper SL
strategic manufacturing is plastered all over the manuals and the web pages for
these products but thanks to the power of the internet we were able to find
some not all but some of your favorite
sportsball tech products for sale on sites like Alibaba alexpress and even
Amazon at much lower prices the headset
that we looked at at the beginning $130 with a sports team logo 1486 without one
these earbuds 30 bucks with a logo $2
without as for our bendy children's headphones $20 on amazon.com if you
remember remember these were 80 from the official store now branding OEM products
like these is nothing new Corsair's first power supply for example was
basically a rebadged seic unit and believe it or not I do not have a water
bottle Factory in my basement but it takes a certain level of just plain not
giving a crap to put your brand on such
garbage I mean if we were talking Hotel
freebies sure but huge sports teams
valued at billions of it feels downright disrespectful to
their fans especially given the prices I
mean I don't know maybe some of it's okay we got more oh yeah oh
God what year is it there's an oxen on
it it's game on
it's a lot better than I expected I could get it on to
that anywh else would you have a lav so
here's the thing it's not my place to tell you what is or isn't okay to spend
your money on if you want to rep your favorite teams by all means but at least
consider an alternative way of going about it for the same price as this
Toronto Raptor's mouse and keyboard why not a Logitech g305 and a keyron
mechanical keyboard or as an alternative to the KC Chiefs headset how about these
arctis Nova 3S from steel series they're better in every possible way and you can
even still demonstrate fty to your favorite billionaire team owner while
you game because you'll have plenty of budget left over for enough stickers to
deck out your entire setup we're going to have this stuff and some similar
suggestions linked down below but we do have a couple more things to check out
apparently oh goodness yep it's the generic car phone
holder ever now with 100% more the logo
of that craptastic team that takes up space in our downtown core sorry do I
sound like an embittered former fan wasn't my intention to sound like
one or to become one uh okay yeah that'll actually hold
pretty okay
sorry Charlotte Hornet's battery Bank
yep that's a micro USB battery Bank
seriously shut up they didn't even bother to
properly license mag
safe wow if you want to look like you
bought your tampon sized airpods on AliExpress even the pairing message
sounds horrible
unlistenable how much are these
45 1 and 1/2 hours of play time
secure comfort fit well well actually they stay okay why
does all the stuff say 100% plastic that
is not how that works and they all use the exact same copy pasted description
so little effort like man this whole
experience was kind of Soul draining I fully understand that companies need to
make money you could certainly get a cheaper windbreaker than ours at
costco.com the difference is that we go out of our way to make sure that the
quality matches the higher sticker price and I just can't say the same about any
of my experiences shopping with Fanatics and with keyscaper unscrupulous
companies like these hurt fans wallets and they hurt the image of the teams and
the leagues the NFL makes a really big deal out of protecting the shield and
honestly speaking from my point of view this is exactly the kind of manufactured
garbage that they should be actively distancing themselves from rather than
signing long-term Partnerships with but
hey maybe I'm misinterpreting maybe it's not about protecting their image or
their fans maybe it's about protecting their bottom line speaking of bottom
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