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Bowl Bound Shirts — Celebrating Bowl Eligibility While Taking Care of the Environment By KEVIN McNAMARA
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s Dino Babers walked to the microphone for
‘Bowl Bound’ shirts quickly became a hot item not
the start of his post-game press conference
only on the backs of the Orange players but all-
after a convincing win over 15 ranked
around Central New York.
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North Carolina State in mid-October, the Syracuse coach couldn’t hide his excitement.
As the Orange celebrated becoming bowl eligible, Jay Hertwig owned a smile as well. Hertwig the Senior Vice President
For the first time in four
of Commercialization for Unifi
seasons, he knew his Orange
Manufacturing, a Greenboro, N.C. textile
were headed for Bowl Season.
production company that’s part of a
“There’s a lot of goals
unique partnership along with Vapor
that are still out there but
Elemental Wear that’s producing
there’s one goal that’s been
the new, ‘Bowl Bound’ performance
checked,” Babers said. “It’s
shirts. Unifi, the makers of
going to be interesting to see
REPREVE® — a sustainable
where this family can go as
fiber composed of recycled
we move down the road.”
plastic water bottles, is
To help commemorate
changing the game with
Syracuse’s first 6-0 start since
Vapor, the official partner
1987, the players received what’s become the memento that all college football players
for Bowl Season’s apparel campaign which focuses on both elite performance and sustainability.
crave: a Bowl Bound shirt. Syracuse’s hot start has
“Who can’t get excited about college football?,”
captivated the program’s fans and Bowl Season’s
Hertwig hypothetically pondered. “Football is king and BOWL SEASON | November 2022
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