More Miami Heat Championship gear out: Huh?

Heat Championship T-Shirts/Courtesy: Comicbookreview.com

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Were there really that many people who just assumed the Miami Heat won the NBA Championship...even though they didn't?

We, along with most of the free-civilized blogging world showed you the Miami Herald's presumptuous Macy's NBA Championship gear last week, the morning after the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA Championship.

Now comes this, apparently Marvel comics put out a t-shirt at Miami area Wal-Marts with pictures of the Marvel comics superhero's congratulating the Miami Heat for winning the title. Ooops.

Read the story from the Dallas Morning News RIGHT HERE

Why is it that most of the commercialized world just assumed the Heat would win? And for that matter, why the heck is Marvel printing championship t-shirts--for sale at Wal-Mart? Though for t-shirt and memorabilia collectors like Brother Jon, shirts such as these are the "Holy-Grail", mostly because they shouldn't exist.

For those not aware, NBA Merchandising much like all pro-sports, is supposed to control things like this. Yeah, there were "Heat NBA Champions" t-shirts printed, they print shirts for both teams in the finals. That's how they have the shirts ready right after the game ends. But the loser shirts are burned or sent to a 3rd World Country because the league doesn't want them out. And yet these seem to exist?

Your Mavs Victory Parade Highlights

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The "Before" at the AAC is off to the left...

Here's your introductions...
We're quite fond of how Shawn Marion took to the platform...

An estimated 250,000 people or more attended Thursday morning's parade to celebrate the Mavs' NBA Championship.



And some of the pictures, thanks to Brother Marty...

Mark Cuban to pick up tab for Mavs championship parade

Mark Cuban

This is what a multi-billionaire pro sports team owner should do. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he will pay for the parade in the city of Dallas to honor his NBA Championship winning team.

Like most cities in America right now, Dallas is struggling with budgets and doesn't really have the money to put on such an event. Dallas city officials though do apparently have a detailed plan of how the parade would go, saying they've been planning on this for years.

With hundreds of thousands possibly attending, it would take thousands of police and hundreds more city workers all on overtime to pull off an event that would go from City Hall to the Mavericks home arena (we don't do sponsors--they got enough pub in the series)

Read more from the Dallas Morning News (non-subscriber story) RIGHT HERE

We say good for Cuban. Although he sometimes does some odd and says some weird things, he pretty much gets it. There should be a rule that pro sports team owners foot the bill for their parades. It's not like they can't afford it. Sure, it is great that fans get to show their civic pride with their team winning, but these days most cities would have a hard time footing a six or seven figure price tag on an event like this.

Here's a story from the folks at WFAA yesterday as the team returned home from Miami: