Want To Win A Raptors Shirt?

By Jeff W
for HOOPSADDICT.com

Published: October 17, 2007

To a cheapskate like me, NBA gear is seriously out of my price range. So I went out and bought some iron-on sheets with the intention of creating my own Raptors fan T-shirt. Months later, those sheets are still sitting on top of my printer.

So I asked FanboyGear.com what it would take to get a free shirt out of them. The reply: “I am in need of new ideas for the upcoming season. Perhaps your readers can help us out?”

Okay, not quite what I was looking for, but for the benefit of you, dear Hoops Addict reader:

If you’ve got an idea for a great Raptors T-shirt, create the graphic, publish it somewhere (like Flickr or Picasa) and put the link in the comment field below. If you don’t have the artistic talent, just describe in detail your picture or slogan. We’ll judge your entry, with the winner getting prizes as follows:

2 FREE T-shirts: one of your choice, and the other with your winning design
acknowledgment by Fanboy that it’s your design
first dibs on all new Fanboy releases for one year

Get those creative juices flowing, folks! Contest closes on Tuesday, October 23.

(This contest is also up on Courtside at TheScore.ca. Please check out the comments there, too, before you post.)

30 Comments on "Want To Win A Raptors Shirt?"

Jeff W on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 9:11 am

I’ve got a Garbajosa idea:

A marble portrait bust of Garbajosa (like this) with the inscription underneath in stoney block letters
GARBAJOSA
THE LEGEND

It was inspired by the recent article in the Globe and Mail (shout out to Grangie).

That would take some considerable Paint Shop skill to pull off.

Rich Burdett on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 9:35 am

My suggestions….
http://picasaweb.google.com/burdett/RapsShirtSuggestions?authkey=PAycMtmNwLA

ionco on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 11:00 am

No sleep ’till Brooklyn. . . . A picture of a haggard looking J-Kidd, R-Jeff and VC riding the Subway to Brooklyn!

ionco on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 11:02 am

A picture of an angry looking Chris Bosh with a caption that reads:

Chris Bosh will eat you children. . . and your lunch, your dinner and whatever else you got.

ionco on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 11:03 am

Chris &
Jorge &
Andrea &
Jason.

Jeff W on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 3:19 pm

UPDATED - the links to Courtside and Fanboy’s blog.

Rich Burdett on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 9:17 pm

Updated with three more

Rich Burdett on Thu, 18th Oct 2007 9:18 pm

oops, forgot the link. i’m a doofus

http://picasaweb.google.com/burdett/RapsShirtSuggestions?authkey=PAycMtmNwLA

pat on Fri, 19th Oct 2007 6:12 pm

what dimensions do you want it to be (pixels)

Ryan on Fri, 19th Oct 2007 8:49 pm

It can be any pixels you want Pat. If you win we may need you to readjust the size but the competition any size will work.

Jacky on Sat, 20th Oct 2007 10:13 am

Is there a limit to the colours we can use? Fanboy shirts are all in white and black and on a red shirt. Do our entries have to follow that template?

Jacky on Sat, 20th Oct 2007 10:38 am

here’s my entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15588840@N08/

pat on Sat, 20th Oct 2007 11:53 am

hey…

does anybody know where you can find a red shirt template to put on the graphics?

willis on Sat, 20th Oct 2007 1:26 pm

there is no limit whatsoever. any colour any print.

Joey T on Mon, 22nd Oct 2007 11:48 pm

All the ideas I’ve posted on realgm:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8929869@N08/?saved=1

Jeff W on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 12:53 pm

A Maurizio shirt: A B&W pic of Gherardini (i.e. this one) with

The
Godfather

to the right side, in imitation of this poster.

And instead of the puppeteer hand, use the Raptor claw.

Gagan on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 1:05 pm

Ah man, if only my Photoshop was working . But here’s the basic idea:

A picture of Andrea Bargnani to the left, TJ Ford in the middle and Chris Bosh on the right. (All standing up and looking like they are ready for war)

Then underneath the picture of those 3, the caption: “New Kids on the Block” OR “the REAL 3 headed monster” OR “Raptor Revival”

The whole shirt would be Black and Red.

Damn my photoshop!! lol

Jeffrey Wong on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 2:56 pm

Can you guys extend the deadline date? I just found this out today and I really want to create a t-shirt design for this. Thanks

Jeff W on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 3:05 pm

You’re kidding me: your name Mater, er, Jeff Wong, too?

Sorry — we can’t extend the deadline. Fanboy has to have time to produce the shirts for the start of the season. You can submit your idea in text or try to produce the graphic by the end of the day.

Jeffrey Wong on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 3:11 pm

haha yah my name is Jeff Wong also, this is no joke.
Alright well I’m going to try to submit one today, what time today does the contest close then? Thanks

Jeffrey Wong on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 4:44 pm

Here are the shirts I did for this contest. I tried uploading the high quality jpegs to my server but my host is down. So I uploaded to flickr instead, here they are:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15923088@N03/1715272265/

Jeffrey Wong on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 4:47 pm

oh yah, I created all of those in Illustrator so that it won’t look pixelated and the quality will look really good if printed. I’m going to upload one more, once again the link is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15923088@N03/1715272265/

Jeffrey Wong on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 4:53 pm

Here is another attempt at a shirt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15923088@N03/1716237356/

Los Manos on Tue, 23rd Oct 2007 7:11 pm