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The holidays can be a tough time for any girl this time of year. Whether
you've been in a relationship for a long time or just started dating.
You cant go wrong this holiday season giving your guy a sports gift.
Its a "no pressure" gift that is sure not to be a lame sweater that
will end up in the back of his closet never to see the light of day.
The first thing to do is to figure out what sports he likes the best. Once
you got that, the team name is essential to pick out the perfect gift.
If your guy is a die-hard Red Sox fan you dont want him opening up a
Yankees hat on Christmas because you will probably be spending your New
Years by yourself. Each of the major sports leagues have websites that
you can shop on. Along with the major sites (where you will probably
pay alot) is the smaller up-and coming sites which offer the exact same
items usually with better customer service to assist you. Either way
you have to start off researching! But dont feel stressed out because
GuysGirl.com is here to help you!
If your guy is into football, the most user friendly site I found was actually the top dog, NFL.com. The site has a "Gift Center"
where you start off by choosing your guy's favorite team. Once the team
is chosen there are 3 areas to narrow down your search: by price, by
recipient, or by how the gift is used. Other useful search options
include choosing whether you guy is a "Mr.Fix It", "Tenacious
Tailgater", "Collector", or "Wear it Like a Pro". These options make it
incredibly easy to narrow down that perfect gift. If he is more
interested in college football rather than the pros I recommend going
to FootballFanatics.com. This site isn't as easy to choose from if you have no clue what to get, in this case I would recommend starting off on NFL.com (just pick a
general team) and choose one of the categories that best fits your guy.
Chances are, you can find any of those items on NFL.com with any
college football team of your choice.
Now lets say your guy is into America's Past-time, another great site that has a gift finder function is MLB.com. Here you can also start off by picking the team of your choice and inside you can search for items by price, recipient, category or my
personal favorite, personality. These functions made it very easy to
find the item your guy would be most interested in while saving you a
valuable amount of time. You can also select multiple attributes to
search by. For example say the man in your life likes to have his
"everyday team shirt" as well as a professional shirt, you can click
both functions and items like boxers and ties, items that fit both
those categories. MLB is moderately priced with your higher ticket
items being of course, the jerseys and autographed items.
The NBA
has a site that is very similar to MLB's in which they have a gift
finder function that allows you to search with multiple attributes such
as recipient and price. Another option is a customizable jersey that
you can put your guy's name on the back of it rather than buying a
jersey of someone who may not be with the team for an extended period
of time.
There were some sites I was honestly disappointed in as far as the navigation and ease of finding a gift. Though each the NHL, NCAA, PGA and NASCAR
all had shopping capabilities on their site, trying to find a gift was
somewhat difficult if you didnt know exactly what you were looking for.
Good luck trying to find the perfect gift on PGA's site. As a former
employee of the PGA, I had enormous difficultly even finding the
"shopping" portion of the site. If you want to get your man a
golf-related gift, your best bet is to go to a golf store and hope the
workers there know what they are talking about. If not, I suggest
buying a round of golf for him and his buddies, though it will set you
back at least a couple hundred dollars.
Now if you want to earn major brownie points and you already know what the favorite team is, I would hit up Distant Replays.
They carry a large assortment of throw back jerseys, hats and other
misc items. Most of the gifts on this site are the old uniforms from
old days in each league. If you guy opens this gift,
