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The List: Further Adidas innovations

Adidas is revolutionizing the sports industry! What could possibly top their innovation of “sleeves”?

REVOLUTIONARY
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Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

On Monday, word leaked that Adidas would be making basketball jerseys with sleeves. Then it appeared they were going to have an official announcement that sleeves now exist. What could possibly be next for the geniuses at the Adidas labs? Here’s the list!

- Zippers

- Hypercolor everything

- Flaps in the front of underwear

- Dickies

- Tassels (with subtassels)

- Snuggieforms

- Shirts filled with like 40 itchy tags

- Cummerbunds

- Communal shower invisibility cloak

- Hypercooling high-performance half-pants (or “shorts” for short)

- High-performance ascots

- Empire-waisted baseball jerseys

- Mockstraps: the jock strap that actually puts your balls in more danger

- Thneeds made from the tufts of Truffula trees. (But, like, for basketball)

- These Morrissey-style shirts

- One sleeve

- Turtlenecks

- Full-body Crocs

- Jersey-to-kit conversion table for when dealing with soccer fans

- Caps to keep the sun out of your eyes when playing baseball

(Today’s List was created with help from Spencer Hall, Jason Kirk, Matt Conner, Grant Brisbee, Chris Mottram, Ryan Van Bibber and Ryan Hudson.)

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