Bench Warmer Hats

The bench warmer is the one teammate who never appears in the box score and is somehow in every celebration. The job has its own lore. In December 2012 ESPN reported that the Los Angeles Clippers' reserves had been nicknamed "A Tribe Called Bench," a name a fan suggested on Twitter, after an early idea, "Mob Deep," was dropped because the Knicks already used it. Sports Illustrated Kids noted the Clippers' bench players high-fiving the starters' dunks in white headbands. Players on school benches take it just as seriously. One told his school paper, "You can't be looking bad on the sidelines. That's rule number one when it comes to benchwarming," and another said, "I still consider myself part of the wins." These bench warmer hats are for that crew. BENCH WARMER is the head term, a phrase that already sells on a Gongshow hockey toque and a Fanatics Bucks tee, and BENCH MOB is the fan name that tees already carry. The sentence designs give the bench its side of the stat sheet: a perfect shooting record from never taking a shot, the team lead in high fives, the hardest celebration and the best seat in the house. The never-missed-a-shot and high-fives lines each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Give one to the friend who rode the pine and never stopped cheering.