![]() ![]() So forget about what percentage of worldwide cop merch is NYPD, because I would just pull some answer out of my ass and it wouldn’t matter. Just about 10 years after that, the city bragged that its licensing revenues, which included NYPD merch, was over $24 million a year. Right after 9/11, sales of NYPD and FDNY merch skyrocketed, with the fire department telling the New York Times that its official merch store was clearing $200,000 a week after the attacks. ![]() ![]() This is actually an interesting story within the cop-industrial complex. Of all the merch in the world for police and fire departments, what percentage does New York take up? Well over 50%, right? I've never seen anyone repping the London PD or the Tokyo FD. On a recent trip to New York while passing my hundredth NYC gift shop, I wondered if any other police or fire departments have as much available merch as the NY departments do. Email those two brilliant minds your questions right here, marvel at their answers, and then groan in exasperation when I return in three weeks to spew all of my usual horseshit. The week after, it’s supervising producer, Normal Gossip co-creator, and excellent blogger Alex Sujong Laughlin. Your guest host next week is already legendary Defectern Abigail Segel. But many hands make light work, and two of my Defector colleagues have volunteered to captain the Funbag as I tend to my dirty sinful football business. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Why Your Team Sucks begins today, which means that I’ll be in the hate lab for the next month and change: doing scholarly research, scribbling madly on windows, and formulating the exact right way to tell America that Aaron Rodgers can get fucked with his own mouthguard.Īs such, I’ll have little time to spare for other matters. Today, we're talking about CEOs, weed, sleeping bags, beached sharks, and more. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. ![]()
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