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woo sports ball man he HT that touchdown

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right between the pipes it's time to celebrate with some tunes and some

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gaming uh combining two things you love should

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be a winning strategy and thanks to a recent comment our eyes have been opened

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to the combination of tech and supporting our favorite sports teams

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just look at all the Branded headphones Bluetooth speakers wireless chargers

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mice and keyboards that you can buy can buy but should you buy them the short

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answer is no the long answer is no and a

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fascinating Rabbit Hole of outrageous markups skey sales tactics and outright

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false advertising and the deeper we went the clearer it became that someone

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needed to blow the whistle just like I'm going to blow the whistle on our

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sponsor the ridge get rid of your old bulky wallet the ridge wallet will keep

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save 10% off your purchase and get free shipping I guess we'll kick things off

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with the Kansas City Chief's logo wireless Bluetooth gaming headphones and

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stand I hadn't actually seen the stand before we started to

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shoot this is truly unexceptional as for

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the headphones themselves they're not the worst that I've

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seen

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oh they do the same thing as the Tommy Hill fig ones where you push on them and

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you can actually hear the driver's Buckle we kick these over to the lab to

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test though and shockingly the frequency

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response curve is not that far off our Target I got to hear this it's kind of

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mind-blowing how good these look on paper yeah they're a little Basse heavy

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but it's down in the subbase where it should add to the rumble of a bass

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guitar or a kick drum without making the overall sound boomy or muddy I wouldn't

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describe them as having sparkly accurate Highs but they're serviceable there's

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some weird electrical sounds when skipping forward and backward though

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even the boom mic is good though that's not to say that it's without bugs PC

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Gamers will need to plug in this wimpy 5ft extension cable in order to use the

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boom mic because it doesn't get detected it seems to be a design limitation

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though rather than a defect since the PS5 picks it up no problem console

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Gamers will probably be pretty happy then cuz even if you have an Xbox or a

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PS4 they include this separate little mini mic to plug into to your controller

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how about pricing then let's check out the product page we'll just head over to

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nflshop.com easy enough to remember given they never shot up about it I

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wouldn't know anything about that if LTT Store LTT Store LTT Store LTT Store hey

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LTT Store.com 8 bucks for personalization that's pretty reasonable

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though I don't know if I could say the same about the price in general $100 is

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a lot for these everything considered I mean fair enough it does have bold

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printed graphics so you can listen to The Game Day broadcast but there's some

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other pretty questionable stuff here 100% plastic that would be impressive if

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true and if these are made in the USA I

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will eat them they're supposed to be a label or a sticker yeah that's America

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right there that could be a legitimate problem for the NFL if anyone ever

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catches them and there's some other weird stuff here too some of the product

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labels make sense officially licensed gear customized item special event item

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pretty self-explanatory but others are kind of nebulous what's a manufacturer

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direct item and why doesn't the NFL run its own web store we're going to get to

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that one in a bit first we noticed that while the KC Chief's logo appears to be

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simply printed onto blank ear covers just because one team has a certain item

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available doesn't necessarily mean that your team will too in spite of how

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easily it apparently could though maybe

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that's not always a bad thing let's see what's up with these peripherals ooh

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Toronto Raptors repping

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Canada and the Bengals this is an interesting

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combination what what that doesn't sound quality to you it's the vinyl wrap that

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seems to be over top of what would be a mouse pad with a chi charging spot on it

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I got to say with this textured partly glossy partly matte wrap on it though it

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would be a miracle if even a good Mouse tracked on it never mind this one where

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are my dongles at oh there it

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is okay black dongle for the

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keyboard oh yeah and a white dongle for

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the mouse that's actually kind of

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nice the Labs test this yes shut up even

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though it's 2.4 G Herz given its

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performance this thing might as well be Bluetooth 37 milliseconds of average

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latency 50 milliseconds Max I thought

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this might just be Windows being

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unresponsive but this feels like a delay even opening the freaking start menu how

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about the

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mouse the mouse is no better 30

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milliseconds average 45 Max the mouse apparently has no rated DPI but what we

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do know is that it's less than 12200 because we would have needed that for

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Mouse tester 1.4 by the way shout out r/ Mouse review does the charging at least

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work all right all right I guess this is less about performance and more about

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repping the brand though should we at least look at the print quality seems

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like it's actually pretty good bold

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vibrant colors hold on a second hold on

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a second what do these keys do this is

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an F this is just F5 this just refreshes

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the web page that button's right here

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okay what's up and down back and forward in the browser I mean I guess if your

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crappy Mouse doesn't have back and forward buttons on it all right do

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maternal time this mouse is so squishy that's the best way that I can describe

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it you know if you want to game badly enough and you're at your sport fan

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uncle's house you'd find a way to make this work you'd be compensating for a

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lot of slop though both the accuracy and

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precision were again worse than the Tommy Hill Figure Set and that's not

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even when we're pushing it to the Limit if you try to do a 360 no scope just

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whipping this around on the pad it completely loses its ability to track

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completely I am not even moving it that fast right now oh wow that's bad there's

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one more thing I'm curious about before it became a Bengals mouse pad what was

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this okay no see it felt like it was

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just a vinyl wrap over an otherwise something product but actually it's just

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a vinyl wrap over a piece of

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cardboard there okay yeah there's a

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choil and a small circuit board total

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bomb cost for this I'm guessing about $2.50 how much did we pay for it $60

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us oh now I feel bad about destroying it

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any who so these are garbage and you should only buy them if you want to

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punish your former BFF who you had a falling out with for supporting Rival

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Sports ball team club but there's a much

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more interesting takeaway here in spite of the spotty availability of NFL

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branded merch from Team to team we are now running into duplicate items across

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entirely different sports leagues so who exactly is Fanatics the group that

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evidently is running the NFL shop the site looks basically the same as the NFL

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one except that you can buy anything here according to this article from

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boardroom dotv they got into the sports gear game back in 1998 and have grown to

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the point where they claim to be worth more than all 32 NHL teams combined not

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only do these guys have deals with the four big sports leagues but they also

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deal in branded apparel for college sports Motorsports golf wrestling the

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Olympics and even Esports to top it off

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pun intended last last year they closed a deal to practically take over the

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sports trading card scene too now that we know where everything's coming from

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let's check out a couple more products as someone who's seen a lot of cheap

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knockoff earphones let me tell you if we

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hadn't bought these from an officially licensed store I would be pretty sure

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these are them look at the size of this

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receiver piece micro USB charging what year is

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it wow everything from the packaging to

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the looks to the Comfort Peak wish.com

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tier I can't believe I bought all this stuff oh that's a cute idea it's a

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Bluetooth speaker in the shape of a puck

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it has a Micro SD

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slot okay testing one two three 1 two 3

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testing testing 1 two 3 testing how do I

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skip the track 2 3 why would you want to skip that testing 1 2 3 1 2 3 testing

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testing 1 2 3 well we'll give it a little while it should theoretically

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survive half an hour with an IP67

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rating oh it actually survived half an hour once already impressive it's hard

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to tell with the song that I'm listening to I'm not super familiar with it but

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seems to sound kind of all right waterproofness aside then this stuff

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sucks too so what's the deal here while we don't know much about fanatic's

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corporate structure or their other dealings there are a lot of red flags

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here you need to click this tiny link to explicitly opt out of them selling your

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personal information their customer testimonials are few and read as though

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their VP of marketing wrote them and they use cringe high- pressure sales

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tactics to drive you to purchase Oh no this 65% off Banner will surely

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disappear forever in just a few short hours whatsoever shall I do I'd say

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don't worry about it because a it'll be back and B it doesn't apply to winning

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teams or athletes player grade jerseys and headwear any brands that you would

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actually want to buy from or at fanatic's own discretion any other brand

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or product so basically it's an artificial discount on crappy stuff that

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they just applied astronomical markups to ahead of time or I guess their own

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branded products which is not fundamentally a problem as long as the

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quality is good oh

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their satisfaction guarantee says all the right reassuring things but nobody

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picked up when we called during business hours on a Friday and the community

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response to their upcoming NHL Uniform Partnership deal has been unenthusiastic

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to say the least so it would appear that our experience wasn't unique but

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whatever the quality of fanatic's products might be the ones we've

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actually been looking at today seem to come from someone else

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keyscaper you know someone actually asked me why we don't do Bluetooth

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headphones on LTT Store.com this is why

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there are enough Bluetooth headphones in the world oh my God there's another

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micro SD slot also these are for kids oh

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no I'm about to find out how much we paid for these

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$80 it doesn't say these are for kids some jerkwad product manager just didn't

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care enough to notice that these are are way too small

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I wear a small siiz motorcycle helmet

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okay if it's small on me it's flipping

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tiny what I'm more interested in is this more advanced technology better and

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stronger materials more reasonable decision design I mean

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look I mean yeah you you can Tech whoa

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oh they cracked I wouldn't recommend

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that this is the cheapest generic crap

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whoa they are light what the left one

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doesn't even work they even sound cheap when you drop

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them on the table and I can barely get it open I give up I can't get these

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paired but the reality of it is I'm not missing out on much and if I was really

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upset about it I could get the same experience for Less keyscaper SL

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strategic manufacturing is plastered all over the manuals and the web pages for

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these products but thanks to the power of the internet we were able to find

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some not all but some of your favorite

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sportsball tech products for sale on sites like Alibaba alexpress and even

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Amazon at much lower prices the headset

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that we looked at at the beginning $130 with a sports team logo 1486 without one

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these earbuds 30 bucks with a logo $2

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without as for our bendy children's headphones $20 on amazon.com if you

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remember remember these were 80 from the official store now branding OEM products

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like these is nothing new Corsair's first power supply for example was

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basically a rebadged seic unit and believe it or not I do not have a water

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bottle Factory in my basement but it takes a certain level of just plain not

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giving a crap to put your brand on such

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garbage I mean if we were talking Hotel

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freebies sure but huge sports teams

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valued at billions of it feels downright disrespectful to

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their fans especially given the prices I

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mean I don't know maybe some of it's okay we got more oh yeah oh

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God what year is it there's an oxen on

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it it's game on

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it's a lot better than I expected I could get it on to

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that anywh else would you have a lav so

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here's the thing it's not my place to tell you what is or isn't okay to spend

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your money on if you want to rep your favorite teams by all means but at least

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consider an alternative way of going about it for the same price as this

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Toronto Raptor's mouse and keyboard why not a Logitech g305 and a keyron

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mechanical keyboard or as an alternative to the KC Chiefs headset how about these

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arctis Nova 3S from steel series they're better in every possible way and you can

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even still demonstrate fty to your favorite billionaire team owner while

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you game because you'll have plenty of budget left over for enough stickers to

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deck out your entire setup we're going to have this stuff and some similar

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suggestions linked down below but we do have a couple more things to check out

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apparently oh goodness yep it's the generic car phone

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holder ever now with 100% more the logo

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of that craptastic team that takes up space in our downtown core sorry do I

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sound like an embittered former fan wasn't my intention to sound like

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one or to become one uh okay yeah that'll actually hold

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pretty okay

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sorry Charlotte Hornet's battery Bank

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yep that's a micro USB battery Bank

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seriously shut up they didn't even bother to

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properly license mag

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safe wow if you want to look like you

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bought your tampon sized airpods on AliExpress even the pairing message

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sounds horrible

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unlistenable how much are these

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45 1 and 1/2 hours of play time

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secure comfort fit well well actually they stay okay why

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does all the stuff say 100% plastic that

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is not how that works and they all use the exact same copy pasted description

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so little effort like man this whole

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experience was kind of Soul draining I fully understand that companies need to

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make money you could certainly get a cheaper windbreaker than ours at

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costco.com the difference is that we go out of our way to make sure that the

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quality matches the higher sticker price and I just can't say the same about any

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of my experiences shopping with Fanatics and with keyscaper unscrupulous

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companies like these hurt fans wallets and they hurt the image of the teams and

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the leagues the NFL makes a really big deal out of protecting the shield and

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honestly speaking from my point of view this is exactly the kind of manufactured

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garbage that they should be actively distancing themselves from rather than

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signing long-term Partnerships with but

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hey maybe I'm misinterpreting maybe it's not about protecting their image or

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their fans maybe it's about protecting their bottom line speaking of bottom

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lines this is the bottom line of the script meaning it's time to segue to our

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enjoyed this video Big Ups to all of you who stayed around for the credits you

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