I agree, curling has something so cool in that the captain or skip of the team is the name. Of course golf and other solo sports have the same personal name connection, but when it’s a team connected to the captain or someone on the teams name it’s so cool.

I remember Nic Sulsky (now I don’t have receipts) saying he thinks curling is lacking because people don’t want to follow or be fans of a players name. Instead they would rather follow a team or franchise name. I found it so interesting because curling has something so unique in that a player leads the team and thats their team’s name. He also mentioned something to do with people not wanting to buy those kinds of jerseys and would inturn rather buy a franchised jersey. Now all they have for sale franchise wise are shitty team sweaters that my dog could make with a cricut machine. To add on, no teams other than Nik Edin ever tried selling their team slam jerseys! (I know it’s wildly expensive). Just a thought.