BEM Bluetooth Speaker
- In college colors but without logos, so non-fans can play too
- They actually sound good for little Bluetooth speakers, and believe us, we hear a lot of crappy speakers, we know the difference
Rah rah rah! Sis boom exploitation!
Today’s deal comes with a free bonus ethical dilemma. Are college athletes being exploited for financial gain by big-money athletic programs? Ticket sales, TV rights, merchandise: so much money and none of it goes directly to the people the fans really pay to see. Kind of weird that an NCAA athletic director or football coach can make hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars a year while the players make nothing. So weird, in fact, that it might be changing.
Or should the players just be happy they’re getting a college education in return for playing a mere game? The best among them will make astronomical bank in the pros. Besides, the players come and go in four years or less. Loyalty to a college spans generations. And running those programs isn’t cheap anyway.
These tailgate-friendly BEM Speakers add another wrinkle to the quandary. Along with sounding surprisingly good (and trust us, we have to listen to more shitty speakers than anyone else on Earth, we are the global authority on shitty speakers), they come in “college colors” but they aren’t officially licensed. Which is why they don’t have team logos. And why they don’t cost three times as much. But that also means that no money at all goes to the college programs these players play for. BEM’s just, like, hey, people love college sports, let’s make some coin off of that.
You could just decide you’ve made your peace on the matter and buy the speakers in your favorite school’s color. You could sidestep the issue and buy the speakers in the color of your favorite U.S. pro sports team or your favorite national soccer team or something.
Best of all, you could just choose a color because you like how it looks. When else are we going to offer speakers in half a dozen different shades of red?
