January 27th 2009 10:50 pm PT

uurg… soccer. I want Hockey teams jerseys! Or REAL football jerseys plz!

ZOMG!
Long live Ireland!

Thanks

Well, that’s pretty cool, and new free stuff is always good!

Excellent for sports fans. On the other hand, I would like to see ones where you can maybe use your Xbox LIVE Vision to take a picture and place it on your t-shirt.

What’s next? Clothing from US teams for all sports?

lol, sweet??

All I want is Green Bay Packer jerseys.

Looks great Major, now let’s get Rare making those college jerseys!

WHERE IS GREECE!! RASCISM OMGWTFBBQ!!

eh, let me know when baseball is added. of course, MLB will probably force the monetization of it.

Hup Holland!

Looks good, would be good if you could add some band tee’s *cough cough SLIPKNOT cough* Please

Oh yes finally, something good…I hereby put a request in now for all english league jerseys to, well at least top 2 divisions.

By the way just checked as of right now 1.07am, not there yet in the UK.aghh well maybe tomorrow.

sry but this is for real football, you americans raped the name and put it on the pig skin.

I’d like a complete Steelers uniform for the big game… pretty please!

interesting that you mention as usual they are free, when there have been many indications that there will be paid items in the avatar arena. are you saying major nelson that they will all be free in the future as well?

Sorry genius, it is derived from rugby football.

Cool.. finally we have a decent amount of good clothing in our fortnightly update.
Shame there is no USA shirt though.

I agree with the above!! I want Hockey jerseys!!!!

What do you mean by REAL footbal Izer ? This IS the real football in wich they actually use their feet all the game, not just for punting.

Great News! Please can we have club jersey’s next please especially the English Leagues i.e Premiership, Championship, League 1 and League 2 thanks!

Oh yes and @Snookrt Rugby football is derrived from Football or association football, i believe it was Webb Ellis that picked up the football (soccer ball) and ran with it, creating a game called Rugby Football aka Rugby it was named this because it was at rugby school.

Yay, a ton of new shirts!

Excellent! I’ll have my England shirt on asap.

Look guys, does it matter that different countries like different sports???

Football (Soccer), Rugby and Cricket are a big part of our sporting culture in the UK and Europe in the same way that American Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey and Basketball are in America.

Anyway, you guys (in the USA) get everything (Netflix for example) and we get bugger all in comparison and have to pay more for the privilege. (*I’m not whining, I think the Xbox UK is starting to do a good job).

In terms of the XBOX, Fifa 09 is consistently in the top 10 XBL Titles. Look at last week’s list, Fifa is at 8 and Madden is at 10 – i.e. More users are playing Fifa than Madden. Does this prove that Football (Soccer) is more popular than American Football? – It is on the XBOX at least. So that is possibly why they chose Football (Soccer) shirts before American Football. Plus the avatar system was developed by Rare which is a UK based company.

Anyway WHO CARES! (lol he says after writing a 10,000 word essay!)

Nice, will be changing my shirt next time I log on

hey where is the hockey stuff we need canadian teams!

Can we get a Canadian themed shirt, Nelson? And maybe a ghillie suit?

A t-shirt with the national colours on it and the flag… Was hoping for *actual* football strips when I read this

this is great. thanks!

WHere are they? i dont have any jerseys and i booted my xbox up multiple times, nothing new!!!!! =[ =[ =[ =[

Yeah Boy!
GO, GO, GERMANY!!!
SCHALALALA, SCHALALALALALA…

Nobody who likes real sports cares about this boring soccer crap. Give us some NFL jerseys for REAL football teams!

If it ain’t Dutch…it ain’t much! Look forward to Hockey jerseys, Amercian football, etc.

@ Megamatman: All that proves is that Madden ’09 is a crap game. lol

If we are going to get sports clothing then we def. need college stuff too.

Great! Just in time for superbowl week. Wait…..uh……

I’m hoping the next versions of FIFA, NBA, NCAA, NHL, Madden etc. will include actual jerseys as paid DLC.

Great to see soccer (footie) jersies available. Would love to see USA available. Yes, there are soccer fans here state side.

What? No Australia? Come on!

Awesome! thanks Major but no Jersey for El Salvador?! but still Spain will do nicely!!

Are you kidding? Its bad enough that I am not into sports, but European Football? I at least have favorite American Football and Baseball teams. European Football? Wake me up when there is a descent theme *yawn*.

lol, what a joke. Just in tine for super bowl weekend but it has nothing to do with the superbowl. So the thought of giving it to us is a wasted one.

This is good news, this is the kinda thing I wanted for avatars sure euro football isn’t what we all wanted but I can’t wait to be able to put a Vancouver Canucks jersey on my avatar or NFL, MLB, NBA jerseys.

any word on an arcade game tomorrow?

I’m assuming this is not available in North America? I am online right now, and there are no new items…. so sad… I wanted to sport an Ireland Jersey : (

I’d hate to nit-pick but the gold stars are present on all new items since the last avatar update. The stars don’t dissapear from those items until a new update is downloaded, not the next time you log in.

Yeah! Now I want south america t-shirts!

Brasil!

Fear not my American, Australasian and Oriental cousins! When I was in the preview program, Microsft accidentally revealed a large degree of clothing that will become available.
Truth is, it’s already on the system, just being drip-fed to us.

ANYWAY, there are “sport” T-shirts for your regions as well, so they should be on their way to you before too long.

Although this doesn’t really apply to me as I am not a “football” fan, I like the idea of this. Maybe get some NFL, MLB, or NHL jerseys and then we will talk .

The world doesn’t revolve around America you know. Stop being so egocentric guys.

Thanks Exu. Will be interesting to see just how many items they will drip feed, until they start charging.

Nice but why not include all the national football jerseys? Colombia’s shirt sil-vous-plait

Well, I’m fairly sure I saw Australia and New Zealand tees during the preview, as well as USA, Japan, China and Brazil. Those are the ones that immediately spring to mind. Think there was a Mexico one too…

Go Sweden !

“WHERE IS TURKEY!! RACISM OMGWTFBarbe….oh wait”
or
“Well Turkey’s not in, no biggie, wasn’t expecting it anyway. At least Switzerland’s not in there…i mean who’d want a Swissssswait a sec”

Major Nelson, will you please pass along to whomever decides on this type of content the request that they seriously consider releasing a Seattle Sounders FC jersey (or any other gear) for our Avatars? Considering Xbox 360 Live is the sponsor, it’s the perfect fit. I really want some Sounders FC gear for my Avatar! Thanks.

Why are we just now getting these clothes when they were released and then removed before NXE went public to everyone? I’ve had the Norway shirt since before NXE went public. Is it so hard to make new stuff that you have to make everything at once and then give them out bit by bit?

Seriously, who is Microsoft gearing this clothing towards? What about the avatars is there to appeal to the hardcore? When will achievements be linked to avatar apparel? Gamerscore is a core thing, why not tie it in with the avatars? We’re the ones that Microsoft makes it’s real money off of anyway.

i was expecting MAN U shirt

I want a USA jersey!

Nice Idea. Too bad its only a small lil patch on a ring tee. Kinda expected to see Uniforms aka jerseys.

Yippie i love new avatar items!
i dont know why i h8 soccer!

Yay! Long live Holland!

Where is ROMANIA? Why does Romania always get ignored!! I’m tired of it!

Cool thanks major!

i’m making a prediction, any American sporting league avatar clothing items will have to be paid for. i guarantee it

< < WHERE IS GREECE!! RASCISM OMGWTFBBQ!! >>

I guess they forgot to include this team because devs felt asleep while watching one of their match

Can’t understand the European guys are this happy about it.
I’m Dutch and it’s true, there is a t-shirt with the Dutch flag on it,
but it ain’t the real deal. :dissapointed: They’re all just freakin’ fake shirts with the flag on them. How corny could it be?
When i read the news about those jerseys i thought it would be the real ones, NOT!
Nice attempt, complete failure..

Grtz, nibbit

I am a little frustrated. Turkey placed 3rd in the last Euro Championship, and yet there is no TURKISH jersey. Other notable omissions include Greece, the Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, and Croatia. All of these teams have a more successful soccer past than some of the listed teams (Wales? N. Ireland? hah).

Is this related to the fact that microsoft still WON’T sell XBOX360s in Turkey?? They are alienating a huge fan group.

Maybe some band T-shirts packaged into the music packs for game like Guitar Hero and Rock Band would be nice.

Wow, now this was prolly the last avatar update I expected to see going live, thanks a lot, I will update my avatar as soon as I get back from work. Now though, considering every guy will want the sports jersey for their favourite clubs, wether it is Boston Celtics or a random welsh second division rugby team, and considering the Xbox team will hear and grant some of them (assuming they will), would it be possible perhaps to get further categorization of these items to not overload the current categories?

By the naming logic of “Soccer” versus “Football” espoused by the pundits here, Hockey should be called “Stickpuck.”

But in reality, “Football” is a more accurate name for American Football since punters and kickers only use one foot to kick the ball.

Since Soccer, or if you prefer, “Football” players actually use both feet to handle the ball, it should be called “Feetball.”

Funny how Americans are whe ones to complain for a change!
You should know how much more XBL content you have compared to other regions in the world.

So please s**t up and let us enjoy something for a change!

They aint football/soccer shirts,they are just shirts with a country flag on ithem

Hungary?

And my top hat is safe for another month!

Hungary?

Isn’t it funny that Americans always consider ‘that game where heavy doped up mountains of beef run around kicking the sh*t out of eachother’ call the real football, when in fact it has nothing to do with the sport that was named that way years and years before (the sport they mistakingly call soccer). And to make things worse, their version of football indeed resembles what the rest of the world calls rugby … which is in effect a real contactsport without protection … something the beefmountains can’t seem to live without. But then again, their national games are also always called world series, when in reality no other country cares about their sports. How can a National Football/Baseball League organise yearly World Series ?

@ Willeth: Judging by the avatar in your gamerpic, I don’t think you have to worry about anyone ever trying to steal that look.

I Hope You RROD – And American HAndball should be called ‘Rugby For Girls’. You extend your logic too far.
On topic – these aren’t offical so will the Americans please stop whinging. It’s amazing how you all come out of the woodwork the instant another region gets content that you don’t. I wonder how many of you are the same ones that moan when the ROW regions rightly complain about a lack of content…

This is really cool, I Love football/soccer!
Changing my outfit to the Netherlands one tonight

Am I the only one who can’t find the new content in my avatar editor?!?!

Nice!

all right!
now let’s get NBA outfits out there, I wanna show my lovin’ for the Bulls!

is there no arcade game this week?

ok…but ROMANIA where is it???….PLZ next time include ROMANIA in the list…

“Yay! Long live Holland!”

Holland is a province, not a country.

Wow that a nice update
My avatar is going to be an England Supporter of course.

For those Europeans complaining not to get clothing for their country: I think MS will only support those countries where Xbox Live officially is available.

BTW thanks for the free content.

……..Ok, so there are quite a few european teams in there – thats nice! But where is Greece…?!?!? They won the euro 2004 tournament so surley to leave them out of this list is a massive error…!!!!!!

Ok, seriously? No Greece? This sucks…

at last some decent avatar clothes. and to the first that commented on the post, these are real FOOTBALL shirts as this is the FOOTBALL that is actual played using FEET instead of HANDS!!!!!!

love it, was wondering how long it was before i could be patriotic and don my england shirt! fantastic addition.

Awesome! been waiting for these tops to come back since the NXE beta!!

well done for calling it football

Hell yeas, l will represent Finland now! : D

About NXE : Is the Team responsible for this http://nxethemes.com/ ?

Portugal for me all the way ‘viva portugal’

Nice….what about the Aussies and Boks living in Europe tho?…..do they get theyre own?…..or has localization struck again??…..when are we gonna get some REAL gamer stuff…..I want a Gears beanie and tee….tho I’m guessing these will become PREMIUM clothing items since they actually be desirable and Microsoft will be able to make MORE money from em!

Cool stuff! Now how about US football teams as well please? Then all we need is Japanese/Chinese/US BaseBall teams in this and I and many other sports fans will be vary happy!

Any word on tomboy cloths for the girls? Also some more winter jackets would be nice, and some more choices for mens T-shirts, and glasses, as well as a few more shoe choice would help even it out a bit but thanks for this update!

Thx Major…the idea is really great.I am looking forward to new stuff.Let the clothes coming
I love it!

Nice. Now all I need is a kilt to go with my Scotland top.

Just FYI – its Football, anyone who calls it Soccer is just plain wrong (but i’d love to have American Football jerseys for my avatar too)

nice one, Northern Ireland top looks awesome thanks

Sweet a Northern Ireland top

Good to see Europe getting a look in for once, congrats to whoever thought it up! England shirt now proudly on my avatar

Way! Proper football (as it should be called) shirts!
Well done Microsoft.
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I do wonder why you can’t just change the color of certain clothes at least. some clothes i like but as a guy I wonder why there is so much pink stuff for guys, and you can’t just change the color. There is just not that much stuff it seems. glad the europeans get some stuff like this though, seeing as how they get stiffed on a lot of other stuff.

Please make jerseys from a real sport !! Like American football or basketball

NFL/MLB jerseys, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!

NFL/MLB/NHL/NBA will cost MP I would imagine, I dont see any of those letting MS use Team jerseys for free.

Any chance of UK rugby union, can’t stand football!

That’s ok, the rest of you can have your little soccer jerseys. (and yeah it’s called soccer no matter how much you protest it… the REAL football is in the NFL, baby!) So now the next time you whine about the next US-only event, we Americans can say “but you have your soccer jerseys!” hahaha

well said megamatman…well said

AWSOME… but, where is Croatia. Surley the Worlds top 10 teams should be able to be selected.

Please, have the CROATIA jersey available ASAP.

Cool. I can wear the Norwegian jersey with pride again, since Egil “Drillo” Olsen is back as coach.

Keep this up, and before too long we’re going to need categories in the closet.
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Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a good thing; I would just rather “drill down” into a “Euro Football Jersey” category if I wanted one, rather than have to flip through three pages of them in a generic “Shirts” category if I don’t.
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Sub-folders FTW!

USA! USA! US- oh, wait…that’s right, nevermind… *sigh*

Nurd Alurt why do you complain? USA always receive more…We european pay much more for live than USA and we don’t have anything…

ENGERLAND ENGERLAND ENGERLAND

thanks for the heads up Major

No Poland? Hello! We are in Europe too…

nurt alert, you have nothing to complain about, try XBL from a europe account and you’ll see how sub-standard the service really is.

NEED NHL jersey’s

booderrr kin dee i like it in the monring weeyyyy yaaa like me nee actoooo wickl ju veis un anne ich gun bum ruln shreck stemmi on

Nice something aimed at us Europeans but shared with the whole world. Thanks xbl now all you have to do is release EVERYTHING worldwide rather than specific continents.

Im wearing my Welsh shirt with pride!!

Parassassin just gained +1 Respect for xbox live.

Sweet:

While I can’t say I care for football, new avatar items are always appreciated. As is the opportunity to witness ungrateful Americans whining about not getting something that doesn’t cater exclusively to them for a change.

Wow, thats amazing!
Scotland top will be my choice when I get home
Cheers Major.

Sorry, europe but WTFC. Lets get something the US market cares about, maybe NFL, NCAA or something. Come on Major give us something to show off team and/or location pride. How about some MS apparel or the ability to change colors on items. Something….

I hope they offer a USMNT jersey soon and hopefully MLS or at least a Seattle Sounders FC jersey since Xbox Live is the sponser on the shirt.

most call it football, few, if any, call it soccer.

anon 45: ok that was uncalled for

SUHUWEEET!

And yes, its Football. You have a ball and you use your feet to kick it around. No hands allowed 95% of the time.

Foot. Ball.

Then there’s Rugby, Volleyball, Basketball and Baseball where you use your hands and your hands only. No feet or kicking allowed 95% of the time.

This is a good idea.

Sweet to get some national team shirts for all the footballers on live. Be nice to get some club and domestic jerseys. Eventually, it would be better if new avatar clothing was an optional download so that the clothing menu won’t be so full.(but still be free. please?)

I wish the scottish top didnt have the scottish flag on – in fact most of these tops would look better just plain without a flag on but meh – any clothes is better than no clothes – cause then we’d be naked which is bad!

I don’t get it Major…this is the MOST random assortment of anything we’ve gotten. Who chooses what clothes we get?

I mean…preppy last time, “rave” (which sucked) clothes…and then…oh I don’t know, let’s have COUNTRY HICK CLOTHES next time!

What is further weird is somehow the female choice of clothing is somehow more boring *and less in count* than the mens; is there some sexism going on? At this point it really doesn’t say a whole lot that ‘creative’ minds from Rare were the ones who designed the Avatar clothing considering well, these clothing options aren’t really that ‘unique’ or great by any standards.

How about some simple crap which would’ve made this ‘clothing release’ a lot easier like:

- the simple ability to change COLORS on different layers

- same options available to both genders; no exceptions.

- more choices for hair style, faces, etc. Not everybody dresses up like a GAP shopaholic.

I mean REALLY, is it that hard? I’m glad we have something a lot better than the useless Miis on the Wii but, ugh. Sometimes I wonder.

How about some North America countries, like USA or Mexico.

Lmao… finally something related to Europe!!!

Now the U.S can maybe get a hint of how the rest of the world feels about their treatment by microsoft!

(nothing against the U.S btw)

I love people whining about their country not being in the update. So I’m going to add some more – where’s Andorra? Lithuania? Slovenia? Slovakia? Macedonia? Honestly though Greece, Czech Republic and Poland should have been in there.

No Greece. Boo!

You guys should just quit with the free stuff and put up clothes to buy already. I’d rather pay for decent clothes as opposed to be handed imo worthless items every 2 weeks. It’s getting pretty lame seeing nothing but disappointing clothes coming out all the time. I haven’t even altered my avatar since I first created it.

You’re asking for them to start charging? We all know paid stuff will come eventually, they’re just trying to build up some good PR first by releasing stuff for free, stuff which could have probably all come out day 1.

HO-LEEEE-COW!!! THANKS!!! I FINALLY have my Germany Sport Top Jersey on NXE Preview!! (It unlocked from my preset save on NXE Preview – “YEH BABY!”) NOW THIS IS WHAT I’M TALK’IN ‘BOUT!

“Can I have some more, please Sir!?” Thanks Maj, not sure how I missed this post earlier.

Where’s Brazil?

These are not replica shirts for the various national football teams as far as I can tell, more like plain t-shirts with a small flag on them. So why the football association?

I imagine there is some legal reason why MS can’t create real replica shirts, as they’d likely need agreements with the various manufacturers (Rebook, Nike, etc) and the various national FAs. If that’s the case we might never see real club/team shirts either.

heh heh, its wiki time!!

Rugby Football was played in north america long before some camp guy changed the rules, he made major if not complete changes to it, you just took rugby out, and called it american, fair enough.

what you call soccer, is a slang abbreviation for ‘association’, from association football, and you didn’t call it soccer till the 1940s, 30 years after it started in the states.

so to anyone who says ‘the real football is the NFL’, no, its not, the real football in terms of american football is rugby, thats where it derived from. american football and football (soccer) have no links whatsoever. you just had to take a different name for football, as, understandably, you cant have two games known as ‘football’, its done in a few other countries, and they don’t bitch about it. others just enjoy watching they re favourite sport.

im a fan of football (soccer) and rugby. i watched last years superbowl, i admittedly found it boring, thats just my opinion.

And as a final point, Football (soccer), is a worldwide game, twice the US population, 600 million watch the English Premier League worldwide, its clear what the world thinks is the real football.

PS. Not really bothered about the Avatar clothing, though its allot better that the prep and rave ones.

Note: this isnt a dig at american football, this is just a large fill in what will continue to be yet another debate about ‘whats the real football’.
Note 2: If microsoft is to keep avatar clothing free, there will be no official gear, licensing would cost way too much.
Note 3: You yanks get everything so stop complaining, we pay just as much as you for this service and get no where near as much content you get

^ Not to mention that they change yearly (well, most years). So they would have to be continuously updated. I guess this is why they stick to international teams and not clubs.

@Sabre Squadron
No disrespect to anyone by this: But I RATHER have a non-branded shirt. I like the two tones and such of the shirt. Now we just need the tank top (wife beater) shirt and we’re all set. Also, keep in mind, IF Rock Band and Guitar Hero will let us make logos of decals, so can MS (RARE).

As for REAL team logos, that can EASILY be bypassed by MS by allowing the logos to be displayed, ‘un-altered’ streamed right off the CD. THEY have the rights to it in that fashion and if you own the game, you paid for it. Though I could be right or wrong. [system botched; crashed]

were is russia мля?

I am a fan of both North American Football and International Football (Soccer), and have no problem with the content, except that I find it rather odd that the week of the SUPER BOWL there is no SB content! Where are our pics and themes like they had before? Time to hit up the ‘ole download history and see if I can’t find them (if they are still there and not “game not found”)

How difficult it was to put Greece in it???

They made shirts for Wales, but didn’t bother to make it for Russia

wow, they look like they took all of 10 minutes to make.
pretty shoddy clothing so far.

shirts of NFL.
Already itself about the SUPER BOWL .

Free but a bit rubbish, they don’t look anything like the real kits (copyright I guess) – why bother. How about giving us the option to change the colour of current clothing?

Scotland Rules ur Ass!!!

O Flower of Scotland,
When will we see
Your like again,
That fought and died for,
Your wee bit Hill and Glen,
And stood against him,
Proud Edward’s army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

The hills are bare now,
And autumn leaves
lie thick and still,
O’er land that is lost now,
Which those so dearly held,
That stood against him,
Proud Edward’s Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

Those days are past now,
And in the past
they must remain,
But we can still rise now,
And be the nation again,
That stood against him,
Proud Edward’s Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

0 Flower of Scotland,
When will we see
your like again,
That fought and died for,
Your wee bit Hill and Glen,
And stood against him,
Proud Edward’s Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

[**sigh**]

Typical selfish fuk*ng America finally the rest of the world gets something and they moan “where’s our jerseys” guess what you won’t be getting any for the same reason these are not official football shirts!

All you stupid Americans yes STUPID stfu moaning it is about time europe got a little decent content and you wont get no jersey’s and btw it is called a SHIRT! for the same reason we have not had official football shirts…

It’s great to see some European stuff at last!! Now how about some International stuff, i.e. either the Australia or Brasil shirts?

As to what the ‘world game’ is called – it’s FOOTBALL, there’s no ‘s’ in FIFA last time I checked!!!

Way to go Europeans, all your rude insults got the Anon comments shut off! Can we have it that way permanently, Major? The less of these rude ungrateful idiots around, the better!

I remember the ONLY video game arguments in 1989 was “Which was was better, Nintendo or Sega?” or “Who do you think would win Mario or Sonic?”. IF ANYONE would have told me there would be a website where people would be arguing over clothing apparel, I would not have believed it. Maybe in the Sims or Second Life, but not something simple like this.

MACPH1ST0, way to go, all your american discrimination of europeans got the people to massively use the anonymous messaging system to have their say, cause not everybody wants to sign up.

the only ungrateful idiots here are hypocritical yankee fascists like you, who mistreat the lands their ancestors truly came from.
we europeans pay more for XBL than you yanks.
we get poor service and rarely any free stuff or contests.
so excuse us that we’re pissed off when an american has the fat neck to complain when Europeans get an exclusive for once.

@MACPH1ST0
Some Anons are good, many are bad, but they all should not be punished for the ignorant ones who like to just hide behind anonymity to say anything they like with no consequences whatsoever. As for the ‘Europeans’ Anger’ you might want to actually Party Chat with a European Gamer and you’ll feel a bit sad on what they get for MORE than $50 a year in their area. But even more sadder are the Australians. For one game, ONE GAME is average priced at $80. Just think paying that price for [insert your favorite games here]. Then you can see some of the frustration being tied to this simple thing as jerseys. It would be nice if those outside the U.S. had a way to have content designed for their sections/regions. That way each region would have something the other regions would want, but can’t really get.

@Warrengonline

indeed, though it’d be better to just stop doing so much exclusive bs and get more regions involved in events.
now I’m fine with licensing for stuff like the video marketplace, to an acceptable extent.
but the amount of free stuff americans get compared to euros, along with a contest every fricking week as opposed to the european perhaps once per season(if we’re lucky!), it’s just unacceptable.

On behalf of those of us with brains in the US, I just wanted to apologize to the our friends across the pond. Most of us are not as ignorant, as those who don’t think before they post. I’ll admit you guys get screwed over a lot when it comes to live. So enjoy the shirts.

To the US people
This is the actual football before someone decided to degrade the name. They could of used “GGGG” for the NFL games, if it needed to be easier to remember. Grown Guys Grappling Genitals. Less insulting to the actual game and far more accurate.

@JohnnyricoMC
I hear you, but what do you suppose MS Dept for Belgium to do for getting regions involved in events?

Also, do you go to: http://forums.xbox.com/ for your specific region? Posting your concerns there would more shed more light on the issue than posting it here. Major Nelson is ‘affiliated’ with MS, not a CEO or Project Manager. This site is just one of his personal projects in order to reach out to the gamers (us). Unite with other gamers (i.e. eurogamer.net).

Please keep in mind each region each has their own laws. Take your (Belgium’s) current ‘ban on game rentals’ (http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=1960). That is quite a harsh ruling – “Hurting retails sales…”. Even though I have never rented a game since 2005, I buy, swap or borrow from friends. The point being, find a safe and legal way of getting around issues that cause frustration.

You could even start your OWN blog or PHPBB and unite your gamers for a more unified voice. If you put enough into it, you could possibly create something all your own and host YOUR OWN contests (locally). One thing also to remember, each person has their own opinion and being rude is easy to do, listening and giving creative, constructive feedback is at times tedious to acquire. Good luck!

Oh one last thing, futbal is awesome and I’m NOT a fan of football. As an American who used to work at a UK own 5 Star Resort – I seemed to get along with felon non-American patrons with futball instead of fellow Americans with football.

Okay, huge typo [correction]
Oh one last thing, futbal is awesome and I’m NOT a fan of football. As an American who used to work at a UK owned 5 Star Resort (before 9/11) – I seemed to get along with fellow non-American patrons with futball instead of fellow Americans with football.

Wish there was a Poland shirt.

Can’t wait until they add Hockey sweaters and Baseball jerseys.

Always nice

Nice! I wish they had actual jerseys though, people in the US can still get these… all it takes is a lil hex edit ;D