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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 4 (01:15):
I'm Moses to know, I'm just a guy from the
DMV area, Maryland, and I love God, I love sports,
and you know, I'm starting to love style and fashion
a little bit more, which you know, I think we're
going we're going to talk about. But I'm from Ibricustomer, Rwanda,
but born in Maryland, so I'm a first generation kid
here in the United States.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So yeah, that's a little bit about me.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Moses is the founder of blitz Fitz. Blitz Fitz is
a media brand at the intersection of football, fashion and
lifestyle through content offerings such as tunnel fits, closet tours,
shopping trips. This digital magazine has over fifty million views
and one hundred and fifty thousand followers across his social platforms.
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The brand has been featured and partnered with notable athletes
like Stefan Diggs, Travis Kelce, Chase Young, and Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
What's Up, bliss Fitz, It's Tyron Taylor, Welcome to my.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Closet Tourlitzwitz has also collaborated with different NFL teams like
the Giants, the Ravens, and Vikings, all in the effort
to showcase the player's style.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So you know, I was at the NFL Players Association
for the past six years working on player of marketing.
So backtracking a little bit, I went to Stevens University,
played football there, and when I got done playing, I
kind of hit the road that a lot of guys hit,
not knowing exactly what you want to do, But you know,
I knew I wanted to stay in sports. I got
a undergrad and business administration, but then from there went
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to Georgetown, got my master's in sports management, and then
focused on sports marketing and player marketing and NFL Players Association,
so helping guys, you know, make money off the field
through endorsements, activation.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Player appearances, things of that nature. So yeah, I loved it.
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Why is marketing so popular? I feel like back in
the day day, back in the day day, like eons ago,
before any of you were born, there was this movie
have you guys ever heard of it called Boomerang with
Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yep, yep, Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Was it advertising? And I remember everybody wanted to be
an advertising at one point. Marketing is it? And I
don't know, there's so many different aspects of it. But
the creative, the creative genius of this generation is so
special to me. But marketing is very, very popular for you.
Why was it popular? Did you know what marketing was
before you that was even an option for me.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, It's funny because I actually when I thought about
sports and working in sports, the thing that I thought
about was just being an agent.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Like everybody, you know, that's that's the first.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thing that you want to babysit a bunch of spoil people.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well that's what I thought at first. You know, this
was a couple of years ago, when you know, marketing
wasn't as big. Well, when I got into the world
of sports and sports marketing, I realized that it's really
the perfect merge of business and sports. Like marketing touches
every aspect of life, and just doing that through sports
it was something that I loved. I loved being able
to help players tell them stories, market themselves. And then
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also I love when a good marketing campaign comes into play,
when you got a player that fits the brand and
that could tell the story for the brand. It's hard,
but once you find that, like, that's something I really love,
so really storytelling and Brandon.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Who's a perfect idea in terms of a perfect candidate
that would be great for marketing. When I think of
like in the league, I go NFL, and I think,
if I wanted to market a player he's a walking story,
it would be like Odell Beckham. Yet exactly, I would
think of Travis now Kelsey before. But his style now
is kind of he's back. He looks like an officer now.
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Before then he used to have he still did. I'm
sure people still think he has it or or in
the NBA, you know shy he's so soul fly, Like
his soul fly is crazy and it's easy and effortless.
So those people, to me tell stories. So marketing for
an NFL player is that person can tell a story
with the way they dress and how they talk and
who they are.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I'm asking, Yeah, I mean it's it's I mean, you
gotta look at the whole person, you know. I think
when when people think of about themselves, they don't only
just think about their job. If you're talking about the
average person, right, so why do we do it for
sports or athletics? So I think it's guys that are
really starting to embrace that now, whether it be through fashion,
whether it be through what they do in the off season,
whether it be through music. There's a lot of guys
doing their own music things. So I think being able
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to get guys to realize that, you know, football is
just what you do, it's not who you are. Who
are you outside of that? That allows them to see
the potential of what they can market. Obviously, yet keep
the main thing the main thing, and do well on
the field, right because that opens up the opportunities. But
being able to know who you are outside of it too,
you know, opens up things not only for you personally
but from a business standpoints.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But sometimes people don't know that. They have to find
that someone fields that. Like there was a time I
loved me from Rihanna, But Rihanna at the beginning, it's
not Rihanna. Now she got the tattoos, so she got them,
the haircut, and she got the jewelry. She created her
look exactly. So how do you do that as a marketer?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean it comes down to identity. I think.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
It's funny because on my way up here, I was
looking at I think it was on Twitter or LinkedIn.
It said marketing is being able to It's like inviting
somebody to on a date. But branding is keeping them there, right,
So you got to be able to market yourself and
brand yourself. So one you got to know who you are.
You got to be able to identify who you are.
And I think one thing that hurts a lot of
guys just outside of football too, or in general, is
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identifying yourself as just that one thing, like I'm just
a football player, right, you limit yourself and that's something
that you know, I went through even on the lower
scale and the collegiate aspect of things. So I think
once you really start to get out of that mindset
that you know, I'm just a football player, I'm just
a basketball player, you start to open up to Okay,
what do I like? And it start to explore some
things you might fail at, some things you might not,
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might not hit.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But then once you find your stride.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Or your niche, Yeah what fits?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, once you're find what fits, you know, that's what
That's what happens, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I guess that's the double want to.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah. I was like, well, here, since we are here,
blitz fits. What is blitz fits? How bad concept come about?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah? Yeah, so blizz fits level. It's really just like
a football fashion and lifestyle media platform. How it started
was really like, you know, I was still working at
the PA, and you know, I really started to see
like basketball had their own, you know, outlets to show
their fashion inspect from soccer, did you know, and football
didn't really have the narrative of guys can dress. Obviously
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back then there was some guys that were really stepping
like Jamal Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, Odell, but it wasn't really highlighted.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Or used to be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yep, yeah, DeAndre would be at you know, he'd be
on the runways back then. He was like one of
the OG's really to really start that along with guys
like Odell, but I saw it as an opportunity to
really like you know, make a brand that's for the
players to show themselves in that aspect. So what it's
grown to over the years has become you know, fashion obviously,
but also a lifestyle media platform where we're really trying
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to tell the stories of guys through the avenue of fashion,
but also other things like what do they do on
their off days, how do they get prepped for the game,
closet tours, things like that.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But so when you say, how do they prep for
their off days. Are they prepping for work, are they
prepping for what they're gonna wear.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It could be any It could be some guys do
take their off days to prep what they're wearing. Some
guys do that before the season. Some guys really just
take their off day to rest and relax play video games.
So it's really just like depends on who you ask
and what they do, you know, you'll get a different answer. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's because it's another thing I
learned coming into it is there's a difference between fashion
and style.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Fashion is more so the things that you see on
the mannequins, like the high end things like the name
brands all that, which nothing's bad with that, But if
you don't have a style of your own, you kind
of just gravitate to whatever you know it's out or
hot at the moment. So style is something that's timeless
and something that you know it's gonna be within you
no matter what.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That's what you feel like, Like when I get dressed
and I think I have style, everybody can say different
when I get dresses, like do I feel comfortable in this?
Does this represent me. Do I feel like my and
when you know my, I would say, I was like,
my style would be I like to be comfortable first. Yeah,
I like to be tall, so I'm always worse hills.
And I like to feel sexy and empowered, so it
might be my I'm going to show off my legs
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I have on I'm going to show you a workout
like you not going not know I'll work out like
that's that's my That's my style because that empowers me.
I feel strong physically and mentally. And I look at
people like Odell, you could tell he just has it.
He puts it all together, and it just like no
one can wear that like I can put that together.
I'd look silly if I have that exactly. That to
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me is the essence of style. And I just recently
I want to go into the people that you have
talked about on blitz Fits, one of which is angel
Reese Baltimore's very own right and and she was on
the cover of Vogue, which is such a huge iconic
thing and I her and they shared double Gabby Thomas.
They shared the cover. But in terms of American Vogue
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and being the first athlete basketball player more specifically, first
basketball player male or female to cover Vogue is huge, huge, crazy,
and in my mind, I know that she gets a
lot of heat for how she dresses, saying she doesn't
have style, but they put her on Vogue. Does that
mean that she has style because they put her on
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Vogue in your opinion.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean it's subjective obviously, at the end of the day,
fashion to an extent, it's subjective. But I do think
that obviously, I think Angel can dress. I mean I'm
a little biased. She's from Maryland. I think, you know Maryland.
At DMV, we have our way of fashion topic. It's
just different from the rest of the world, you know, But.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What is Maryland's way of dressing? What is this?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean it depends.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
You know, she's from Baltimore, so there's a little bit
different than what you would get in a PG county,
you know what I'm saying, Or like, you know, DC,
you got a lot of you know, I think some
of our stables are new balanced Nike, Booze, the north Face.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
But it's it's really like, I don't know how to
describe it.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It's kind of like we dress well but effortlessly at
the same time, you're not gonna see a lot of
name brands, but you're going to be like, Okay, that's
a good fit. Let me purpose by saying I wouldn't
call myself like the fashion guru, Like if you see
me out, I like to keep the simple white tea.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Out of my friend group, I'll say, there's a couple
of other guys that are more stylist than me and like,
you know, really dig into the fashion sense. But I
think Maryland is just you know, it's funny we talk
about other states and how they dress. You know, I'm
not gonna say what we say, but it's just different.
It's different from what you get in. I mean, it's
it's it's subjective, you know what I'm saying. Somebody might
not agree with our opinion that Maryland is one of
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the best states for.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You're going to have to We're gonna have to take
that to the ground. We have to see what they say.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeahah, I mean, but you got put a d MV
because you know, depending on who you ask and where
they're from.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
So I have to say D very specifically. Is it
true that where you live determines how you dress? We'll
find out when Naked Sports returns. It's your city, so
it must be your style. Welcome back to Naked Sports.
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I do believe there are like in Detroit. What I
think of Detroit, I'm like, where's your chinchilla, where your fir?
Where the gators? And they will get like or what
they call buffs, Like it's very you have to be
from Detroit to call Cartier glasses buffs. It's very important.
And to me that reminds me of this like an
old school pimp. I see that that is.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I can see that like all that whole.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
But people are like, no, I'm fly. You cannot tell.
Nobody from Detroit are not fly exactly. And so when
you say subjective, is it just truly how you grew
up in what you think is fashion? Yeah, I mean
they're a universal fly. Is there a place you're like
universally every this this place is where the fashion.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, I think universally. There's obviously places like here in
New York, LA. You know those big cities even over
in Asia that they have their fashion capitalism. Well, I agree,
So I think there is obviously like a universal fly,
like a universal look that a lot of people can say.
I probably might not wear that, but that looks good.
They can dress, you know, even there's some players that
probably say the same thing. But at the end of
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the day, it's subjective because that same thing with blisters, right,
you might I might post a player, right I think
the fit is fly, and then somebody is like, oh, yeah,
it's crazy. I would never wear that. She's got too
much money wear. It's subjective. I look at some of
the pages and I'm like, I could see why you
wouldn't wear that based on how you dress.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
But you know, to East their own.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
New York to me is the fashion capital. Like I'm
from LA born and raised, and I've lived there most
of my life. Living here, the way I see fashion
of my game is so much in so many different ways.
In LA, you can't wear a coat. There's no such
thing as wearing a coat. New York, you don't have
five six fly coats. You're gonna be layered. If you
could really just layer and layer and layer, it just
adds so much more texture to how you dress. So
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I do think New York to me would be clearly
one of the fashion capitals. Or Paris. That's efforts. They
are effortless. They'll throw on the scarf and just some
raggedy g's and you're.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Like, that's great, what's that Europe in general?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And it's clean. It's like a very minimalistic clean.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Even if they're wearing brands, you won't know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You won't know it, just like you don't know nothing
about this. This is for the Yeah, okay, kids, you
don't know nothing about this. I love that. I want
to know. With blitz fits, where you're trying to tell
a story because you are marketing each player by talking
about them, and you have some players that are continuously
on blitz fits, can you tell me repeat customers that
people truly enjoy?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean obviously you got got Stefan Diggs, Odell Beckham,
Tyrod Taylor, some sleeper guys which I don't think they're
sleepers anymore, like Saraan Neil Miami Dolphins. Another name that's
coming up right now, Duke Riley from the Dolphins as well.
So there's a lot of guys that you know are
really steppers, you know, Devon Gottchak from the Patriots, Laramie
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Tunsel from the Texts.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, and that's so and good for him, right because
he has such a such a horrible start, and he
weren't even thinking about him before what he dressed about it.
He's turned the whole thing around.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yep, and he's doing his thing on the field.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, good for him, all right, Okay, so I have
a quest. Yeah, the idea of an NFL player, I
think I think fashion is to me, the only way
they can set themselves apart. Yes, you can be great
on the field, and if you're not one of these
excellent players that we are highlighting, especially people in these
ungrateful positions, Like some of these positions you're like, what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Kick?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Or what do you do? Very few, you know, the
positions that you don't get the glory, but you can't
see them because they have on a helmet and their
identity is really truly concealed, and so a lot of
them do different things. I think that was genius of
Odell to dye his hair. That was just who he was.
But he stood out right away. There are ways in
which you can identify I think he was great too.
There are ways in which you can identify people. So
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with the way they dress, is there is their introduction
they're marketing themselves. Is that something that's very important? That's
become just as important as learning your place.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Do you think I think it's as important? Is it
as important as you make it? You know, obviously there's
some not every guy in the league. It's a small
percentage of guy that really care to dress. You know
what I'm saying. Obviously there's some positions.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
They can dress and they can't. You're not going to
say that. I'm going to say that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, I lead that to the comments. But I think
it's as important as you make it. If that's something
that you really invest in and really you know, love
and want to show yourself and express yourself in that moment,
I think it is that important. There's guys that, you know,
I don't want to say they dedicate their offseason too
it because like I said, you keep the main thing
the main thing, but they do take time to you know,
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think about what they're wearing for each game. You know,
you get seventeen games for the season. Yeah, why not
take some time to coach? Just do it exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And now that they're paying attention to WNBA, God bless
those ladies, they trying their best. Like So, the reality
is is that it doesn't mean it takes away from
the main thing. But it is truly a way to
introduce yourself and tell your story. And also I don't
care where anybody says I need storylines, that I need characters,
and so if my character is dressed, I'm paying attention,
good or bad, right, I'm talking about it. So I
truly believe that it is so integral in who you are.
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It identified you, it is it is listening to the
music you like.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, I think of Jeremiah Usu from The Brown I was.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Just thinking about my boyfriend, not my boyfriend, but he
is so damn fine, just thinking about my boyfriend because
he be Colleen and representing his culture exact day in
and day out. Okay, So for me, he to me
is everything. So you know what he's about, You know
what man he is. You know how he feels about
his heritage and his culture based on the way he
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dresses exact. And that's why I feel like it's just
as important. How would you describe him?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I think I think one, he's you know, like you said,
you know what he's about. You know that he cares
for his culture, he cares for you know where he
comes from and what that has instilled in him, and
he showed that especially last year. Unfortunately this year he
got hurt. But I think he was going to continue
the same thing. But last year, you know, being able
to put together you know, cultural fits, traditional wear for
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each game and tell a story with that in his
own Instagram.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I thought that was something that like he's faghana right, Yeah, yep,
I've ever seen that before.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We've never seen that before in that way. And then
and then when he would post everything that he was wearing,
he told a story with it. Yes, sly was a story.
He was like, let me tell you about my cultural heritage,
let me tell you about my ancestors, let me tell
you where I'm coming from and where I'm going. This
is why I feel like it's so important. We can
dismiss it as oh, it's just what they're wearing, but
if you do it with such intention, it is so special.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I mean it's a quote that you know, it's funny, Hirad.
I think this is a quote that he lives. Buys
how you do one thing, it's how you do everything
that's right. So I think about it when you go
to the I don't say a common person, but you
know the average person that's going to work. You don't
not think about what you're wearing when you're going to work,
like you don't put you don't not put effort into
what you're gonna wear it into the office just because
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you might.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Know there are people who don't put effort.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
But one doesn't dictate what happens in the other right,
just depending on what you're wearing. I should say, like
I'm trying to get to the point of like a
lot of people say, football players just need.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
To worry about what's like the game, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
But what's to say if I'm taking time to put
stuff in effort here, I'm still doing what I need
to hear. You know what does it matter even if
it's an off day. It has nothing to do with
the outfit, you know. But all in all to say,
I think how you do one things, how you everything?
So with him per se, I think culturally, and he
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going into a story about how he got the pieces,
going back to the homeland and doing all that, Like
that's one of the things that I don't think a
lot of people really realize how much effort goes into it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Like you can't get that right down the street.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We got a full stop so we can pay the bills.
We will be right back in just a few moments.
Welcome back to naked sports. So Moses has made it
clear with blitz fits, it's important not only to him
to show representation, but fashion for professional athletes is truly
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their time to shine and show their personality, their heritage
and as mentioned talk about their culture. Let's do a
cultural detour or just take a stop here, because I've
been at Ghana two three times and when I go
and when I have been, and I plan to visit
so many parts of Africa, I have to go to
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the homeland. But when you go, two things, two things.
You first thing is you feel like welcome home. Like
that's the first thing you feel like. You feel like
when you when you set for me and you go there.
You don't go there just just look around. You go
there to learn. You want to know about the cult,
culture of the history. If you believe in your DNA ancestry,
you look up, you know what your percentage is. Mine
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is mineus Nigerian and from and from Ghana. And so
I'm looking around and I want to know the stories
and I visit the I went to the castles where
they stole us and brought us here. It's just it's
a very beautiful, cultural, humbling experience, and you learn so
much about where we come from. That's why I'm really
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a fan of his because I think it is important
and it does make people curious to learn about you are.
But the other thing is in Africa, they be dressed,
they don't play. I got a whole I went to
a New Year's Eve outfit. I went to New Year's
Eve party my very first time is twenty eighteen, and
I was like, I don't have anything to wear, and
the like, let's go find let's go buy some packy.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We got to go make it. Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I was so clean. I was like, is this for me?
I felt like such a queen. Like I had the
head wrap, I had the lung. I was so regal,
and I was like, this is me, this is my culture,
this is who I am. I'm a queen. And I
understand why it's important for black people to dress. There
is something to that heritage of who we are, where
we come from. And this is crazy controversial, not really,
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but do you feel like the first generation players in
the league dress better than the American player.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say I think.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I think in each category there's guys that are really
really dressing.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I think you would go toe to toe, yeah you could. Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
There's some guys that dress in each category that dress well,
some guys that don't necessarily carry the dress as much.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
So that's a good you know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But there's something. There's something there. I don't know what
it is because I'm not in charge of bliss fits,
but I'm saying there's something.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, and it's also different, you know what I'm saying.
It's hard to take.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, Jeremiah when he's wearing put that up against
the Stefan Diggs, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
So much comparing the two. It is the understanding of
why it's not I got to be the cleanest man
on the field this way because I'm a king, yeah yeah,
represent as a king.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Now, traditional wear has a lot of a lot of
meaning to it and a lot of history to how
you know, a lot of this has even come about,
so yeah, I think it's just it might be is
it more sentimental? I think it has a little bit
more you know, there's a story behind it.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, but we like the dress period, but it's gonna
cost you. We like to be Clayton. I'm gonna be cute.
I don't care what you say. Yeah, okay, so I'm
sorry I interrupted. Now you are from I do this,
I digress. You are from first generation Rwanda. Tell me
about it.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, so half for Wand and half Ivory Coast. My
dad's from Ivory Coast, my mom from Rwanda. So I
kind of have the best of both worlds, East and
West Africa. A lot of people when I meet them,
they say, like, I've never heard that mix before. Really, Yeah,
it's not often it's red that you'll probably find that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So it's cool.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Like I had a chance to go back to Rwanda
in twenty nineteen and visit family and you know, see
life there, and I just love it. Rwanda's one of
the best countries in my opinion Africa. Obviously, you can
see a lot of the economic work they're doing there,
the different things that they're bringing there, like they brought
the NBA Africa Cup over there, So it's just a
great place to I think everybody should visit Rwanda.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I think that's so special. I think what they did
with Ghana, they should do for every one of these
countries so that people understand because if we were left
to our American knowledge, were looking at movies and we
think it's working, and it doesn't have and while that
may still exist, there needs to be the celebration of
the beauty yeah country.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, I think a lot of people will be surprised
on you know, how far you know advanced Africa is
and the enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I think.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I think we've come a long way from how we
see it now to the point where I think December,
everybody's going back.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
We're where we're going. I'm gonna take a visit. Everyone is.
Nigeria has become the other hotspot everybody.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, my wife is Nigerian, so we have to go
there at some point too.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I get it wrong all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Takes it takes uh, it takes a lot of trains.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
From she's from Nigeria. Yeah, I have to have these questions.
I'm a full American. I have to stop down and
ask these questions.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, I knew she was from her name. Her name.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
There's names that you already know. Yeah, even my name Moses,
and know my last name is technically you can find
like some Ghanian heritage there. Yeah, because my dad where
he's from, it's the border of Ibricosa and Ghana.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
It's a little bit of a little bit of mixture there.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Whenever I meet someone like like Sergei Baka, he was like,
are you from the Congo? I'm like, no, are you
from the Congco? He's like yes, And I was like, well,
how do I look like it? I don't know. They
always or something. Yeah. He's like, there's identities where you
can actually tell.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you could definitely tell, even like East
and West Africa.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You know, yeah, you could tell.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's interesting. Yeah, Okay, I could have this conversation all that.
I'm going to go back to clothing. Okay, So Jeremy
who else? Who else was on the list?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Uh, Jeremy or Rod Grant Dell Pit from the Browns
as well. I don't know him.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I got to look it up.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
There's a there's a there's a lot of guys.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Taylor always is clean. He is always clean. If you
had to say, and you have to be neutral, who's
your favorite? Writ so Avo writ dressed NFL player to
me personally five top five. I won't put you in
that presure.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Tough five is actually harder.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh really, okay, good give me one for me.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Going off of what I would wear, like, how I
what I like? I like? I like Tyrod. I like
Tyrod because you you'll see one.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I think one thing I've learned with or like just
fashion in general is silhouettes or everything like how stuff
fits you. And I think Tyrod just does a great
job of putting pieces together that fit well. And Tyrod
and his he has a stylish which they collaborate on.
But I think Tyrod and himself he's still a stylish person,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So we did.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
We did a closet tour with him last year around
this time and had a chance to go down to
his crib and see him, and he really lives this
life of just like you know, fashion like you'll come through.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, he's he's chilling. He still has a fit on.
Know that's that's just who he is.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I've heard players say that leisure like you say all that.
I'm say that. Yeah, no, okay, yes, like I do.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Also Stefan Diggs obviously he's from Maryland as well, and
you know, close to where I'm from so I think him, Yeah,
they have they have a good But I also like,
I got to you know, show up to the big guys.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Laramie and and Devon Gotshock.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Those are some of the guys I really really like
because it's hard to find stuff that fits you as Yeah,
me myself, I'm I'm not as big as them, but
I'm I play defensive end in college and I got
to get everything tailored, pants, shirt, suits, everything. So that's
another reason why I thought of blister fits is because
it's easy to dress. You know, if you're you have
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the physique of a you know, basketball player, a soccer player,
but you gotta put a little bit more effort in.
If you're a big guy for whole lineman, d lineman,
you got broader shoulders, It's something that you got to
just put a little bit more effort in just because
of your physique.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, I'm thinking, I'm like and then by big too,
I'm talking I'm thinking of like big big boys, not
just like physically tall, but also size. Like who else
is dressed like that like big big boy?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I mean A sleeper is Morgan Moses. He plays for
the Jets, So he's one there.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
We call those sleeper Yeah they do, don't. It's not
a his position. It's not like we talking about the center.
What he got on, right, No one cares.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah you got you know Cody Ford from the Bengals.
He's one that dresses pretty well.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
How okay, Then we have these these players that are
like the face of the league. Very few give me
back when he played, Tom Brady was always clean, but
that was because his wife was dressing him.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I'm sure. Yeah, Like he has more that Europeans.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
He has that Europeans out. Somebody was like, look at
the whole brand, like he was packaged, you tell, like
it was like Ken Dall, you know what I mean,
putting all the things together. But I think of these
players like Patrick Mahomes. I'm never looking at him and
thinking what's this we're wearing? But you like his style.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I think Pat has his suits on lot, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, he's a sue guy through and through.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I mean every I think home games will throw on
more of like the Cas Louis jacket and stuff like that, but.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
The suitors, I think his suit game is.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yah screamy because I would be like, I don't know,
I'm not for sure. Anybody doing a Tom Brady look
though that clean like the face of the lead and
still put together like that. Because I have a comparison
for them for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I mean, I would say, if you're thinking face of
the League, you have Pat you have because Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You have like you like you like, oh yeah, Justice
and Jefferson you like you like the way Travis Kelsey dresses.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I do.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I think Travis has definitely evolved throughout the years. You know,
I think he's gone He's a guy that goes through
eras like he's gone through it a lot. You look
at his evolution of his style has changed a lot.
So I think I think Travis definitely one that that
can dress.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Do you look at the Yes, the League of yesteryear,
like the League of the eighties and the nineties and
early two thousands, and how they used to dress compared
to what they do now, because to.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Me is now because I mean they had they had
more restrictions back.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Then, and their suits are just yeah, they very basic,
and so now there's more of a freedom to show who.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You are exactly. Yep.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And the League and just you know, outlets are taking
advantage of covering that those moments. So I mean, but
when I think back then, I think of Deon Sanders.
You know, that's probably one of the people that think
of that always. He kind of paved the way as well.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I was gonna say, low key Dion started it. Not
he started a lot, but he low key started Like
how clean he remember he didn't he have the saying
it looked good, feel good yet paid up, Yeah, all
the things like he was always clean. Now, it may
not have been what we wanted to wear, but he
puts some time into it and still played. He was
the first person to me that was mainstream that allowed
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you to be like I can still look good and
ball out like there's there's the two are not mutually exclusive.
They go they can go together, and I love that
about him. He was one of the very first. I
don't think there was anybody else after that. I used
to it to your point, I think these athletes have
no style.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah, I mean, I think if we're talking about guys
that's paid the way obviously Dion. But I think if
we look more into our in the past couple of
you know, decade or so Odell, I think Odell's I
think Odell is the one that really paved the way
for like that cultural icon moment of football players after
d Why because I think Odell was one of the
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ones that's really hanging with analyst celebrities, going to the
met gal like you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's really He was very much a part of the
fashion world.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, not even fashion, just culture in general.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think that what do you mean by that the
difference between two.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
So I think the fashion world obviously. I think obviously
there's things that everybody pays attention to a few things
like right, music, food, fashion, entertainment, those things.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He was in all those worlds.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So we're talking about hanging with a less celebrities, We're
talking about that being at some of the biggest sporting
events outside of football. We're talking about being at some
of the award shows or you know, fashion moments.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I think he was one of the ones that you
see him everywhere.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You know, hanging out with Bieber, hanging out with Lebron,
or hanging out with like you know, Dre.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He just fitted yea. Everything about him was like, yeah,
that makes sense. It was it didn't feel off. He
was to me also one of the very first male
athletes that was okay with being metro, like it wasn't
a thing that it and then people might have questioned
his you know, being silly in question is sexuality. But
he was very metro. He was like, I'm doing this.
This looks good on me, like to me, because when
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you live in those worlds, you have to be okay
with experimenting and trying different looks and different things, and
that felt very authentic to me.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Yeah, I think it's I think fashion is if you
really want to establish yourself in the fashion world. I
think risk taking is a part of it, and I
think it's it's The thing about that is there's a
lot of people that like their parents and how they dress,
and people are going to say whatever they want sure
about it. And if that's what's stopping you, maybe fashion
might not be the place for you. But I think
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being true to yourself and wearing what you like to wear,
I think that's what if you stay true to that, Like, you.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Know, you're giving me a lesson. You'd like to go
home and put on all the things I like?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Now what I do that is only I wear.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
The stuff that I wear is I'm comfortable to me
and what I like, Sure I'm not the type that
might step out the box a little, but there needs
to be people that do that.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
You know, you have to.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
See it first though, like some people don't have, Like
to your point about Odell, you know, he pat on
his his man person. We're like, live with this merse, okay,
and like everybody's merse. We're good. We're good. It's not crazy.
I'm on here, I got my merse. I need it,
and you're just like, okay, I saw or you know,
I can think of I think of and although you
do NFL, I think of the NBA, my equivalent, my
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Tom Brady equivalent. And it's so easy and generic. But
this is recent for him is lebron Land stays clean
and he doesn't get enough credit for it. He'll come
in with some suits and you're like, wait, hold on,
who makes it? Like he just silhouettes to your point
with tyrad fits, tailored watches, everything, whether it's high fashion,
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whether it's casual, whatever, he wants to do it, and
he lives and he could really live in those worlds
if he wanted to. He doesn't, though, and not not
on the outside looking in, but he is to me.
He and Chris Paul locked. When we come back, we
show a little love to our NBA players and Moses
talks about award season. Not necessarily the oscars are Golden globes,
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but how Blitz fits awards those with the best fits
in the NFL. It's truly a thing family back in
a moment. Quick question. This is truly truly subjective, which
means you can have your own opinion, but there's only
one real answer. What player professional athlete? If you will
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change the game for fashion, what professional athlete really made
his or her mark with their style.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Lebron's definitely starting to a little bit more too, Like
he's I think he's an LV ambassador now, so yeah,
he One thing I really can appreciate with guys is
whether they're dressed up or dressed down in sweats or
in a suit, Like they can make it look good.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I think Lebron does that.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah, he's definitely, especially he I think he's his more
mature years that he's really been stepping.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Remember he brought everybody to suits they were in the playoffs.
He was like, we're wearing suits and it just was
clean and they were all nice and put together, and
I was like, there's nothing wrong with that, Like I
like that look. I think of when everyone does the comparisons,
there is not to me, like I love me some Jordan,
God bless and again Jordan, we understand you have restrictions
stay and you could only wear what you could wear.
But his dad jeans are still in rotation, and I'm
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all like, oh wow, like just that's it, that's what
I do. That's that's my look, singing with my jeans
up really high, and you're just like wow. I remember
meeting Jordan before I was even in sports. I remember
being in Atlanta and I was at a club and
it was a bunch of people there and he had
on a long sleeve red shirt, like just a long
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sleeve red shirt. It could have been fancy, who knows,
it's just a long sleeve red shirt. And I'm like,
in what circumstance are we wearing just a long slee
You don't got to say it. I'm gon Sae, Jordan,
I love you, and Jeeves was like up to the
I was like, that has to be something that you
and I understand. That was the era of the big suits,
like given magic and they big suits and they big
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boxy suits and they thought they was doing it, and
Chuck I still feel like and Shaq still they still
won't let that go. That's just a part of who
they are.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Some of that's coming back actually too.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
But who looks good in it? Like not the old
from nineties. You're gonna do a new version of.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, we're talking baggy suits. Travis Kelcey. Travis kelce does,
Yeah he looks good. Yeah. And Stefan did a couple
of looks like that too.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
It's hard. I think style is really hard because, like
you said, I love me some Kobe, Kobe was clean. Yeah,
but we weren't like damn, did.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
You see we didn't look at him for fashion. We
weren't looking No, he was not had his moments.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, he had his moments. You know, you look good,
But it's hard to be the face of an entire
league and then also have that. And I think Lebron
just started to do that recently because he wasn't always
that way.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah. I think of also in the basketball Allen Iverson.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Alan, he's a culture. He changed the game for everybody.
But it wasn't even so much about dressing up. It
was the idea. Alan Iverson I think told us that
we could be who we wanted to be. And then
that's when they started dressing it. And I think he
changed it for.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Everybody exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, that's true, everybody. He was culture. And now when
you wear when you wear the straight backs, it's it's fashionable.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, it's back in.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
It's fashionable. It's not like, oh, you're a thug. When
he was doing it, there's like, look at the tattoos.
He's so thuggish. Now it's art. It's art on my arms, right,
I have my hair is art. Everything about what we
see these players do today art. And if you want
to say who started, I would think Alan Iverson really
set it off for all athletes' not just within the
NBA but just NFL. All of it was just.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Really yeah, yeah, I'd agree. I would agree.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I think he had his stamp moment on, just like
the cultural fashion side of sports.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Who's your favorite NBA player in terms of my favorite
in terms of style.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
And style, That's a hard one. I'll probably say Devin Booker.
Really yeah, because I'm a simple guy. I go, he's
a simple guy too. I think he was doing like
a he did like a little fits from the street
there there Are another fashion page and they did a
little cover on him on what he's wearying to the game.
He just had a regular baggy jeans, gilded hoodie and
still made it look fly. That's my type of that's
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my type of dressing. Like I like the basics. Make
it look clean, make it look fly, but you know
you're not gonna get too much, but you're gonna get enough.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Also, have that French you where you speak French, and
so that's very clean and minimalistic. So I think that
maybe that's what I just made up, right, Maybe I.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Let other things speak for me, even other languages.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
So I'm curious with what's the obviously I know, I
mean I could assume how did you get the title
of bloods Fits? Where do it come from?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Man, that's funny because I was sitting there actually a
couple of friends of mine that were at the p
at the time that left, now we were I was
just sitting there, like, Man, I want to start this.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I don't know what to call it. I think about you.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Know, grid iron fits or like just other football names
that resonate like terminology and football. And one day I
was actually at my at the times my girlfriend We're
at her apartment. She's my wife now, just saying yeah
out to Ugo. But I was sitting there, I'm like,
bliz fits. I think that's it right there.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I just think about blitz split all out blistering.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Thought, yeah, that's what I was thinking. Because you was
that you were a d lineman. I was like, was
he taking all you know?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Just like, okay, exactly, yeah that was my main my
main thing is to go get the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
So but it still makes sense. I just wanted to take.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Over exactly exactly all out blitz. So bliz fits. And
once I said that, I was like, oh yeah, this sticks,
this sticks, so you know, made it started everything, I
g website everything, and then the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Do you ever feel like you're in competition because I
know that this is like a lot of influencers people,
and I don't. Would you identify yourself as an influencer.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Nah, I wouldn't. Not myself. I wouldn't call myself an influencer.
I like to think of myself as more of like
a storyteller sense, okay, yeah, that's what I would say.
I think I don't necessarily I'm more of a behind
the scenes type of guy like this is probably you know,
I know, I got to start doing this more.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
That's what I've been told.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
But like I would do that, you know, just just
some consultants and stuff. But I like to really be
behind the scenes and you know, have people tell their story,
use the platform to really share who they are and
tell those stories. Right, So I wouldn't consider myself an influencer.
Maybe the page itself is influencing.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So yeah, it's interesting because it is the It is
the way in which we live today. Like we expect
people to ask what you wear doing there are pages
you go to to look for this information the scenes
wearing well, who looks it's an honor, Like it's like me.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
B yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
It's really truly something that people take pride in.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Yeah, what I really love the most is the players
that really like you know, love it and take pride
in being featured on the page. Because you know, that's
really who I had in mind when I made the page, right,
the players that are in the league that want a
place to show themselves in that light. Obviously, the people
that have come along and you looked at it for inspiration,
like that means a lot to me too, but being
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able to talk to a player. I think one time
I met a player and he didn't know it was me,
and then the moment I told him, he just went crazy,
like he was like what.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
He just hype?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
How that make you feel?
Speaker 4 (41:21):
It just made me feel like, oh, this is really
a thing, Like I guess we're really we're really doing something.
So it just means a lot to be able to see, like,
you know, the page is really influencing people to even
explore that side of things, like guys are trying to
get featured and trying to be on the page in
the season.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Well, that goes back to my whole original point of dressing.
It's not just that simple. Yeah, I'm not just trying
to be clean. I'm saying something. I'm identifying myself. Some
people aren't articulate. Some people express themselves creating creatively with
what they wear or what they create. And a creation
is what you wear. In my mind, I think I'm
gonna do this, and oh I'm gonna be now. I
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don't know if he was one of these little kids
when you got dressed or when you would try on
new clothes, you'd be in the mirror. You just start dancing.
It's cute. I've had those moments, would be like, yeah,
and you don't do that.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I mean I might have moments like that, Yeah, like
I was.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Going to go shot today. I try to and I'd
be like, oh, kill him. I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I mean I'm that exactly, but I'm like, you don't
do this.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
You as my wife, she might tell you something different,
but you know, I can look at something like Okay, yeah,
this is it right here.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, I'm kill off. If I was single, it'd be
crazy to beat him off. Me crazy. This is why
I laugh because I like, for instance, I think of
certain players like dMar DeRozan. He doesn't he doesn't. He
was sweats. Yeah, I'm sweats. I'm ath leisure. I put
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on pants. It's a big deal, you know, if I'm
going outside with pants and it's a big deal. He's
just comfortable, that's like, but it's still clean, it's still
his style. It is who he is. And then I
look at other players and I wonder how important it
is to them to do that, because, for for instance,
it is their creative expression that once a week, whether
it's five minutes or ten minutes, that once a week.
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How do you get all of the images? So if
I go on your page, I'm like, do you hire
a freelancer? I know you can't be everywhere all time.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Yeah. No, So it's it's come from different avenues. So
now we've started working with teams where you know, teams
will collaborate with us on their game day entrance.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
It is so Yeah, we know a lot.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Of photographers that we work with around you know, the
country that you know they shoot for players. A lot
of players have their own personal photographers that they send
things over to us.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Players are dming us.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
You know, I was going to say, I know players
be like, so did you see this? Yeah, players don't
forget the side.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
You'll be surprised.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Players like, you know, they'll be dming us the day
of the game what they wore. And then we do
have you know, we started this Blisters Tour, which we're
basically working with teams to cover their game day fits
all in crowning the best stressed team of the year.
So that's actually coming out with the next couple of weeks. Yeah,
so we've something new that we started where you know,
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we're it's a tour essentially, you know where we're hitting
different teams this year. We hit about nine teams during
the regular season. Basically, what we'll do is we'll bring
our team there, cover there the guys arriving at the game,
make a sizon real with that and collaborate with the
teams and posting that. And then what we do at
the end of the season, which is you know now,
is we take a look at just all the teams
and we have a best Dressed team that's a part
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of our Blissit's awards, which is kind of the best
dressed guys of that year.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
So have you done that? When do we do that?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
When do we at the end of this month? At
then this month it was in the league?
Speaker 1 (44:35):
How do you make that decision?
Speaker 3 (44:36):
It's it's that's a good question, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
It's just at home figuring out.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
That's not just the Yes, we do take it to
the people. So there is you know fan or like
you know, voters there too. We do have a couple
of consultants that we talked to, a little panel that
we talked to about like, you know, who's gonna make
for one of the teams this year.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
Yeah, So it's a mixture. It's a mixture it's not
all on me. Now. Before it might have been been in.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
So secretive you you were music, so I can't tell you.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
You'll be surprised how I mean. See, this is the thing.
Players are competitive, no matter, no.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Matter what it is, what matter what it is.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
So the moment that they find out, like they've been
on a team, like so we do an off its
first team, second team, third team, similar how like they'll
do all profits. So you know, guys will make the
third team and they'll be follow you. They'll be like, man,
don't don't ever post me again. If you look at it,
the third team is still the top twenty five in
the league of best dress.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Yeah you know whoa don't ever post me again.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
You you're like, yeah, we we me and that player reconcile.
You know we're good now.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
It's really bad at you. Nah, I would to say
it craziest story. You ain't got to talk about him
per se. But what's the craziest story. So you put
him on third team and he was like, you can't
post me no more. Took he took it that serious.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Yeah, he took it that serious. Took it that serious.
And then and then that was in our DMS, and
then later on I saw him in person. He didn't
know who I was at the time. To introduced myself.
I was like, yo, hey man, we were good. I
know you thirteen. It's like, man, we good, Man.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
We good.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
So he didn't take it that serious, but like you know,
he was like, y'all playing me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Oh, I feel the way. I understand that.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Yeah, but I mean it's tough, man.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
You have so many guys that dress well and there's
only so many, you know, spots in my opinion, like
there if you make any of the teams.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
I think that's you know, amazing.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
I appreciate your neutrality. You're like, you're very neutral, You're
very like so you know, it's very hard. It's difficult.
I can understand, and I understood at least top twenty.
I appreciate that as opposed to be I'm like, ah,
shut up, what's wrong with you? You're here, you look good.
What's the problem? Close? Man? Practice right? Practice game the game.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
That's the game. That's the game for a lot.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
That's by the way. When that's the response that you
can take that with, someone can make you crazy, say, sir,
were talking about practice. That's not the game. I like
that w today. I like we're talking about practice, although
for them that is the game. I agree.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
That's an aspect of Again.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
It's an aspect of you. Okay, so you're gonna crown
you won't tell me who it is. Do you have that?
Do you have that in place right now?
Speaker 3 (47:08):
It's not in place.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Ready to break some news, No, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
So the way it works is, obviously there's always an
m v P.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
There's always a Rookie of the Year that we crowned,
and then we have off its first team, second team,
and third team. We also have an award for best
Dressed big Man, so a line d line.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Those horse dress.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
We have a board Okay, yeah, we have a most Improved.
So that's that's somebody.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Who's been most improved in the past.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Last year was another sleeper, Jordan Fuller. He's with the
Panthers this year, Like, I think he really invested into
those moments as well. Like and the thing that most
improved is we're not ever saying like, oh, this guy
was trashed last year, but but nah, there's some guys
that you know, they didn't really think about it that much.
But this year they're like, I'm gonna put the effort
into this, okay, and we notice it.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
So I think that's one of the ways.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
That is there a team people or you make up
Oh yeah, it's a team. How big is the team?
Speaker 4 (48:04):
Even if it was just me, I'll say it's a team.
I'm not trying to get that heat. But now we
do have a team.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
There's about twenty people working on this.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well we have this is like at.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Night just me.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yeah, now we got a team for sure. We definitely
got a team.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Okay, good for you.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah, it would drive you crazy if it was just me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Even the day before we release it, we're like switching
slides and changing.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
This is like you, it's contemplation. There's Scott, there's effort
put into this and you just putting this together. So
people should really be honored.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
Yeah, I mean a lot of guys are honored, Like
a lot of guys you know are sharing the teams
or sharing it. So it does mean a lot to
them and that that's humbling to me, just to know
that people appreciate being on any of these teams.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
And it's all positive. You don't have somebody, do you have?
Because there are a couple of outfits that I can
think of, and I'd be like, I can't believe he
did that. There's just some over the years you're like, oh,
like when you think about when people get dry? Yeah,
now do you have a special Draft day edition? Like
we the what we and by we I mean the
fans love when someone is wearing something so ridiculous and
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I'll never wear it again, like we always Jalen I
think of Jalen Rose. I love him, he's a friend
of mine, but we will never not pull out his
Draft day outfit because it was trash. Yeah, and so
he just laughed. He was like, no, but I'm from
the D and I was killing it here. You're wrong, back,
I was the best. Do you do Draft day outfits
where you're just like.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
This is yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Nothing awful though you don't say anything bad.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
It's all nah, I think because like like the like
I said before, subjective, you know, some mighty somebody might
not like it, but somebody else might like it. Somebody
might try that, somebody might not. So I don't think
we'll ever post something to bash a guy. That's just
not how you go up.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yeah, that's just not me as a personal comments.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Well I love that about it.
Speaker 3 (49:47):
Yeah, comments, the comments will do it.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
Leave it to the comments.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
Leave it to the comments. But we're posting it. We're
not posting it.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
To talk bad about it.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
So when I if you put me thirteen, I'm gonna
have a real problem for real, Like if you do it,
like because I go down the list and it ain't
that many they're dress nice. So I'm gonna go be
mad if you put me the thirteen. Moses, I'm coming
to find you. What's just that dress? Oh? Do we
have his home address? And you will find.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
It a fake one?
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Drop your location.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
You dressed well too, you know. Ever since I've been
watching you for years.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
I think that I was there was I'm not saying
that I'm the best dress, but I do believe before
like there was a time where women had to wear
baggy suits and sports. They couldn't feel like they were women.
They wanted you to dress like a dude. And then
I was like, that just makes no sense. That makes sense.
I mean, I think you shouldail your I feel like
I started, especially at ESPN, you could ask anybody they
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was dressed like they had on baggy suits they were wearing.
They were like, her skirts are too short. I was like,
mind your business, I'm grown, mind your business. Or nobody
was wearing heels? You too tall, you don't need to
wear heels. I was like, mind your business. Like I didn't.
I did not care because and not that that was
what I went in to do, but that was just
what made me comfortable. That was my creative expression.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
Say who I was, you're stepping and that's the same,
the same mindset you have there is what a lot
of guys are taking into that tunnel moment, like this
is who I am, this is how I want to
express myself, and I don't really care what people say.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
You know, I've got a few questions before I let
you go, But do some rapid fire. How important is
a tunnel moment for an athlete?
Speaker 4 (51:17):
On a scale of one to ten, I think it's
very important. I think some guys obviously face the guys
are the faces of the league. You know, whatever they
wear is going to get featured no matter what. But
I think for the guys that that might be one
of their few moments throughout the league, and they're capitalizing
off of that. They start to see that they get
more of those moments, you know, throughout the throughout the season,
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throughout the year. Morelet's start to pick them up. So
I think it's very important.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Yeah, exactly, some money exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
There's guys that we started featuring on our page that
you know wouldn't be like the A List guys or
bless guys, but because they had those that consistency with
their fits, yea, more and more people started to feature them.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
You know, it's top fist.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
What's universal slash brand that looks good for the most
part on the players, there's like it is everybody I'm
making up something? Yeah, does everyone deal with a certain
stylist or a certain tailor or does everyone love to
wear a J I'm you know, I don't know. Is
there something universally that you've seen over and over again
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on different players that oh ye good.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
I think this year the well, if we're just talking
about pieces that a lot of guys are wearing, I
think the georts, like the denim studied jeorts, jeans shorts,
I think guys were especially in earlier in the season.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Guys were wearing that for sure, Ax.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
And George.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
Yeah, I was taking over a lot more that streetwear style.
I would say those were some of the pieces that
were really like stand up, you know, stand out. But
obviously you have the lv's guys pulling up in the
lv's the beanies that they dropped, A lot of guys
were wearing those, so there's a lot of different pieces.
You'll start to see like it's because there's so many
guys in the league. You'll end up wearing something one
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day and not even realize that the player on another
team across the country wore that same thing, you know
what I mean. And it's just because those are some
of the pieces that were in the NBA, you have
less guys, so the chances of you guys wearing the
same thing, especially if it's a new release or something
that just dropped the slimmer.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, but the the overall consensus is this this season,
it was Jeorgeannasis.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
Yeah, George.
Speaker 4 (53:20):
I would say a six Moore was last season and
spilled into this season a little bit more. I think,
what are those boots? There were like these specific boots
that guys are wearing this year. I don't know if
it was Lesciaga or Louis Ers or one of those boots.
There's like these big boots that.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Are brown and black. I gotta find the name of it.
Speaker 4 (53:37):
But that was another one that guys were really wearing
a lot of Raspberry Hills is a brand that guy's wearing.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
It's more of a sweats hoodie and sweats type of thing.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
I think. I think that I think that that's interesting
because I know that there are popular things that they
all wear and I wouldn't know. That's why i'm asking
you with you the expert.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't call myself expert because even
some things I'm looking on you like, I don't know
what that is. I don't know what brand. It looks good,
it looks good, it looks nice.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Yeah, okay. Then my other question for you is we've
named a lot of players in terms of who is
your favorite. You gave us your favorite for Tyrod, you
gave us your favorite was Devin Booker in the NBA.
It's it's so interesting because in other leagues, I would
even say, like in hockey, I don't think that this
would be a thing. And hockey. Yeah, that's why I
know it's cultural. That's why I know it has something
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to do with who we are as a people because
in hockey, I look, I don't think that they like
what we got today. It might be one or two,
but it's it's not a thing, you know what I
mean the way that it is for us. So I
wonder who would you say, what athlete NBA or NFL
and it can be two really transitioned the idea or
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excuse me, brought to the mainstream, if you will, the
idea that you can do both, that you can look
good on the field and you can yeah well as well.
Stefan Diggs, I think that's you think he set it
off for everybody, well historically historically historically.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
Oh, I mean, if we're talking historically, we named a
couple of them, Beyon Sanders, Okay, Ellen Iverson. If we're
looking even way back, who is it that wore the
for the furry coat?
Speaker 1 (55:11):
Was it.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
A furry coat?
Speaker 1 (55:14):
But so did well Chamberlain. They all have to at
the in the day Magic had he was he was clean.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
Yeah, I mean, it really depends on what area you're
thinking about.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
I'm thinking about. I can't say that even though we
can name those guys. I think the fur coat, yes,
I think that was a trend. I think athletes have
always lived on that line, But I'm thinking who really
affected it and everyone was like, look at what he did,
I can do the same. I think Dion and Adam
that's been great historically. I think those two are great.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Are definitely because they they they challenged the status quote
correct and fashion and it's just whatever they did.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
It's how when you do one thing, that's how you
doing it earlier. So yeah, I see. And then when
you do this for women, do you think have you
ever thought blitz her fits? I mean, have you ever
thought of doing something for women? Because we are having
our moment in sports, it's more than a moment, it's
here to say.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
Definitely, definitely not.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
I've definitely had a lot of pitches to me about
that and a lot of thought has gone into it.
You know, we are the growth of girls flag football
is big. You never know, we never know what that's
gonna come down to. But I'm definitely open to that
and seeing what we could do in that space as
it continues to evolve. But yeah, I'll never say.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Does it have to be flag football? Could it be
regular football, could it be sports in general? I mean yeah,
but also you want to get the same theme.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
I will say, like when it comes to fashion outlets
for sports, I think there have been so there's like
other ones like League Fits for basketball. You have now
one overseas footballer fits for soccer soccer football. So I
think every respective sport has been growing. But I think,
you know, for me, it's like how can we bring
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it in, whether it be I've had the pictures of
what is it the stylists that are women that are
styling a lot of these guys, like finding ways to
highlight them, which there are a lot that are that
are that are killing it, killing it. So yeah, there's
definitely ways that we want to continue to see how
we can highlight, you know, more of the women on
our platform.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
So I love it. I might have to talk to
you about that.
Speaker 1 (57:18):
Yeah, yeah, and in that way that encourages them being
a step up their game a bit because it's hard.
It's hard to be as you talked about being a
big person, it's hard to be a tall woman size
thirteen shoe and you got to be you're the level
of trauma you deal with growing up. My friend, she
is six three. She has been wearing a size twelve
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since she was in the like eighth grade. Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah I can't.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
Yeah, you can't see how you are.
Speaker 3 (57:44):
I mean, I have my own I have my own issue.
So I grew up wearing husky pants. You know, I
had to. I had to find ways and make it
worse so I can relate, But not like the height
type of thing. I'm relatively tall, but I'm tall.
Speaker 1 (57:59):
I'm a normal tall. I'm five to ten. It's a
normal tall, and I wear heels. I embraced my height.
But when I was the sixth grade, Philip King used
to talk to me about how tall I was and
how big my feet were. Imagine fighting over that as
a woman. So now we need to highlight these extra
tall women who were doing their best running around here
with size fourteen shoes. Got to make them feel normal.
And I think let's normalize the four T shoes for women.
Speaker 3 (58:20):
And I think like leaf Fish, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
Wrong, everybody in here last my people ain't right.
Speaker 4 (58:25):
I will say Leafish and those guys over there, I
as one of my guys that runs leaf As.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
They're doing a great job of highlight and just the
WNBA yeah what they did in that space.
Speaker 1 (58:35):
So yeah, they're working on it. They're getting there, ladies, ladies,
here we come. Once again. They forgot about us, but
I'm still bringing this back, a normalized size fourteen for women.
Let's not not here. He said he couldn't imagine. I can,
so let's know I can't.
Speaker 3 (58:48):
I can't relate. I can imagine, though, you know what.
Speaker 1 (58:53):
Moses, weird teasing you so are right now. Thank you
so much for coming on naked. Now, is there anything
else I need to know? I need to add in
this that you want to sighlight? I have everybody go
to your page. You're a saint, Moses.
Speaker 3 (59:05):
I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (59:07):
Your name is of the character you are, so we
appreciate it. Thank you so much for being here on naked.
Speaker 3 (59:13):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate being here. It's a
little cold to be naked, but you know we're.
Speaker 1 (59:17):
Here naked, size fourteen. We don't care about my big fee.
Speaker 3 (59:23):
I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (59:26):
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