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We’ve upgraded our sales force

Posted by juplife on October 11, 2008


We’ve upgraded our sales force

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At least they’re easier on the eyes
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Selling without drew, sad story

Posted by juplife on October 11, 2008


Selling without drew, sad story

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At least I have new stick. She’s a beaut
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The final shipment of the Tressel shirts is in

Posted by juplife on September 25, 2008

You know, it’s fun to have all of these shirts, but it’s not so fun to have the bill that comes with them.
mr john

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ohio state vs ohio recap

Posted by juplife on September 9, 2008

it was another fun weekend in columbus. drew made the trip down to reclaim his spot as my sales manager and we were joined by focker and newcomer jackie green.

the full lineup of jupmode.com items is nearly out. new items this week included the organic cotton grocery tote bags and the pop brutus shirt designed by alissa weaver.


the game was kind of tense for a bit but luckily the buckeyes prevailed. hopefully they come prepared this weekend against southern cal. i’ll be there selling shirts at the tailgates if you’re in the area.

we ran into another shirt guru this weekend, ryan vesler, who created the homage clothing line. he’s got some ferocious retro clothing available at homageclothing.com. i suggest you check it out and keep an eye on the greatness his is sure to unfurl in the future.

the nice looking photos in this post were taken by lisa di giacomo who is doing a photography project on tailgating. they’re great photos and it’s nice to finally have some professional photos taken of jupmode products. she’ll be back for the troy game to get some more and pick up her own pop brutus tee.

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the debut of the new tressel tees (osu vs youngstown st)

Posted by juplife on September 1, 2008

osu sweater vest onesie

osu sweater vest onesie

the new sweater vest t-shirts came out to the masses this weekend at the osu vs. youngstown st game. the arrival of the shirts was long awaited by quite a few people. on friday i picked up the new shirts at atlantis sportswear on friday and dropped them off in columbus. we’ve got six versions total - adult and youth sizes in scarlet and gray, and toddler and onesies in red - and they’ve all been redesigned with a new tie with the logos.

gray sweater vest t-shirt

gray sweater vest t-shirt

dr came home for the weekend since ND wasn’t playing to help sell. we made it in late friday night to columbus and got up early to sell at the 7eleven on lane avenue. dr was a little tired from his first week at school so i was lucky to have steve dempsey in town to help organize all of the merch.

the shirt is once again a big hit. like always we got plenty of cute comments, but the biggest seller of the day was the osu sweater vest onesie. it’s the big item that finally brings something to the jupmode line for the women.

osu sweater vest t-shirt

osu sweater vest t-shirt

the new shirts and onesies aren’t currently on jupmode but should be shortly. in the meantime, if you’d like to order one, just contact me and i’ll get one for you.

and one more thing, dr, brad hays, and i ran the spirit of columbus half marathon today. i’d been training for the last month and was a little nervous as to whether or not i could complete it. the longest training run i had was 9 miles and i spent all day yesterday on my feet. luckily, dr stayed back with me and kept me moving. we finished with a time of about 1:50. my goal was under 2 hours so i’m very happy with the finish. at the finish we received medals and they had a whole bunch of great treats - pbj sandwiches, subway cookies (dr’s favorite), trail mix, waters, bananas. they put on a great event for their first time around.

i’m glad i ran it, mostly just so i can say that i did. i don’t feel some immense sense of accomplishment like some people do. it’s more a feeling like cool, i did it, i wouldn’t mind doing it again sometime. running that early in the morning is weird. we woke up at 5:30 and by noon we were headed back home. it felt like the day was really long and almost like we hadn’t run a race earlier in the day. next time we need to find the closest sonic so that we can really take advantage of all of the calories we burned during the run.

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Dr is working hard to sell these Tressel tees

Posted by juplife on August 30, 2008

Year 2 and they’re still cute.
nancy pants

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The Tressel tees and new organic tees are ready to go

Posted by juplife on August 29, 2008

Get excited for a big year.
nancy pants

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gordon gee rocks my world and so does beth (i love my friends)

Posted by juplife on July 1, 2008

beth skelly and gordon gee

beth healy made a visit to gordon gee’s house yesterday. being the sweet person she is, she sported the great jim tressel t. beth’s good looks and charm woo’d gordo and he placed an order for a shirt. i think i officially have to make a bow tie shirt now.

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hands down the coolest guy in chicago

Posted by juplife on March 29, 2008

i’m not sure i can explain in words how sweet this dude is. found by allison

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i need your feedback (new osu sweater vest tees)

Posted by juplife on January 22, 2008

here are three new shirts i’m working on. you’ll recognize two of them. the third is a new one designed by alissa weaver. she also made the files for the two new tressel tees.

before i go through with production, i need your help. what do you think of the new one. yay or nay. the red portion doesn’t look to clear (click to enlarge), but the gray specs on it are smaller buckeye leaves.

with the tressel tees i need to know what you think of the ties. do you like the red and gray check. should i do something else. should we make the tie for the gray sweater the red and gray check as well.

let me know homies. i can’t do this on my own.



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the classiest blog on the internet: the sporting blog

Posted by juplife on January 19, 2008

a little late on this one, but it’s still fresh in my memory. the osu sweater vest got quite a bit of exposure in new orleans and was actually picked up by a well known blog: the sporting blog. it’s the blogging arm of the sporting news and run by chris mottram, brother to jamie of the blog show.

i think if they met the guy who made what spencer hall called the “classiest t-shirt in college football” they might change their mind.

the sporting blog (link)

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animals dressed as humans!

Posted by juplife on January 12, 2008


i normally don’t support this, but in this case i’ll make an exemption. this is bree’s dog finnegan dressed as jimmy t during the bcs championship game. thanks to lindsay for the photo.

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a jupmode christmas - my favorite kind

Posted by juplife on December 31, 2007


one of my biggest supporters so far, steve dempsey, sent in this photo.

One of the shirts I bought from you went to my brother in-law…it was a JupMode Christmas! WOW is he going to look “Tressel-ish” on game day.

looks like the best christmas gift ever to me. hopefully there are a few others that were happy to unwrap a gift with this in the box. thanks steve.

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jim Tressel t sighting by focker

Posted by juplife on December 31, 2007

Hey this guy at texas roadhouse had a jim tressel sweatervest tshirt on. He was amazing.

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remember halloween? it’s a great time for the OSU sweater vest t-shirt

Posted by juplife on December 21, 2007


the edge wore it to the office on halloween. with the headset and clipboard, he’s got the look down. he mimics coach tressel so well that he was added to the models page on jupmode.com.

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