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Brewers add Northwestern Mutual patches to jerseys.
Beginning with Friday night’s matchup against the Washington Nationals, the Milwaukee Brewers debuted their first-ever partnered jersey patch through a multi-year agreement with Northwestern Mutual. Northwestern Mutual, a staple of the Milwaukee business community, headquartered in Wisconsin’s largest city for more than a century. The patch will be front and center on Brewers jerseys in the team’s signature navy blue and white. Northwestern Mutual announced its expanded multi-year partnership with the Milwaukee Brewers, becoming the team’s official financial planning and first-ever jersey patch partner. As part of this agreement, the Brewers and Northwestern Mutual are expanding their respective partnerships with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), an organization dedicated to supporting research and families impacted by childhood cancer.
Both Northwestern Mutual and the Brewers share values surrounding supporting greater Milwaukee and the children and families within these communities. There will be a significant increase of these efforts beginning in 2024 with direct ways to support the initiatives to raise money to fight childhood cancer.
During Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September 2024, the Brewers will identify a home series and donate $1 for every ticket sold for those games to ALSF.
Major League Baseball began allowing sponsorship patches on on-field jerseys this season. After all is said and done, however, where other teams, the military and many organizations put patriotic patches on their uniforms, the NFL remains true to its main motivational mission, making money, although, in this case, sharing an undisclosed amount to charity.
Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers taught their adoring fans on Sunday afternoon, that it’s not all that tough to turn a hard-earned victory into an amazing defeat. La Fluer may be one of the best coaches in the NFL but on Monday night he stunk, and he took the team with him into the showers, which were hopefully filled with tomato juice to remove the rotten aroma. The bitter loss was only by one point but the way it was lost will remain with the team and could color how this group of new youngsters moves into the rest of the year. Twenty-five to twenty-four, a loss that will not be remembered as being that close. Maybe, just maybe, the loss was deliberately done as a gift to Aaron Rodgers in his hospital room, making him smile in thanks.
