The Palmolive Prep Football Badge

Hopefully, I’m not dating myself but they use to run these ads all the time about Palmolive. Palmolive is a dish soap and their big sales pitch was that you would have soft hands after washing dishes with their brand of soap. I’m can prove or disprove that claim (since we’re rocking the dishwasher) but I know another place where soft hands matter and I don’t mean smooth skin. Let’s look at the Palmolive prep football Badge and see if you measure up.
First, what are the Prep Sport Badges and how do we use them? The Badges are animated images that try to capture the swagger and energy of high school sports. You’ll find them on a Player’s Profile page right below the main Profile Video area in the center of the page. It’s hard to miss them since they are animated…moving around and packed with color and attitude. That’s the whole point of the badges…it’s a statement to the world and any viewers about what makes you tick on the prep sport scene. So let’s look a little closer at the Palmolive Badge first.
The actual badge starts with a black, starry night background since the big prep football games are always at night and usually perfectly placed on Friday night to start the weekend off right. There are three big flood light arrays running across the badge. At PrepSportFantasy.com, we personally love flood lights since you only see them for big games or cars exploding or something like that. You only break them out for the crazy nonsense. Love em! So back to the badge. From the bottom left corner, you see two hands coming up and to the right. The stars are twinkling in the background. From the right top corner, you see a football which has obviously been thrown to a receiver (the hands). On the football, there’s two spots that glow red and yellow with the basic outline of the hands outstretched. Matched like a hand in glove. The football makes its way across the screen to meet the rising hands for a solid and sweet catch. The words “Palmolive” rises up from the bottom right corner. It’s one of our favorite things to see…that amazing connection between Quarterback and Receiver when it all comes together and hands rip the ball out of the sky under the harsh canvas of floodlight glory. It’s why we live for football. Why the name Palmolive?
As mentioned before, Palmolive’s big pitch was soft hands. In prep football, soft hands means you have good hands for catching. When some people catch a football, their hands appear to be hard or clunky against the ball. It’s really a function of hand eye coordination. With soft hands, you don’t even hear the impact of the football against the hands. It’s like they’re catching the football in a big mit. Soft and secure. Those are the receivers that we love watching. One second, a ridiculous pass is riding the air and the next minute, the receiver magically just pulls it out of the air.  Soft hands. Yea, I guess you can practice to get better at it some people are just smooth and they’re freakin magicians with a their hands and a loose football. Prep football’s greatest magicians…Soft Hands. The Palmolive football badge pays tribute to their trickery.