A CB reader stumbled upon this Temple shirt at Fanatics, which features a lovely image of the setting sun:
This is very nice if you are willing to overlook the fact that the Temple campus is totally flat, and without evergreen conifers. Maybe there are some pine trees out by Temple Ambler, but there ain’t any pine trees along North Broad between Cecil B. and Dauphin, nor are there rolling hills and/or mountains. There is certainly some nice greenery along the Polett Walk, though the trees are of the deciduous and broad leaf variety, dotting the landscape alongside mixed shrubbery and various gardenscapes.
Which makes you wonder why they’d create a Temple t-shirt that resembles the Washington State campus, though I did find this on the site:
Yeah, see now this is where it’s at. You’ve got everything on here, from the Charles Library to the Bell Tower and Morgan Hall. And if you zoom in close enough on Lincoln Financial Field, you can see Christian Hackenberg being sacked not once, not twice, but 10 times. Holy cow! Temple 27, Penn State 10. We’re gonna see a repeat of that in a few weeks in South Philly as K.C. Keeler’s boys have Rocco Becht running for his life:
We are! Gonna have to find a new cocaine dealer (allegedly).
Anyway, back to the first image –
Apparently what Fanatics does is create a generic t-shirt that is replicated for a bunch of teams. This one is called “Landscape Shield,” basically a standardized product in which the colors are tweaked for each school, and the design adjusted slightly.
For instance, the Florida shirt has palm trees and water, the LSU shirt looks swampy, with some cattails, and then the Alabama one looks like Temple and Houston (?), only with fewer trees it appears:
And if you don’t know, then now you know.
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