Allowing teams to have advertisements on their uniforms in the form of patches has gotten decidedly mixed reviews from fans from day one. The Atlanta Braves' Quikrete patch was largely hated by fans when it first came out, but has generally gone unnoticed ever since especially with the yellow matching the color scheme that a number of Braves players wear regularly. However, the Nationals recently revealed their next sponsor patch and it is...well, it is hilarious frankly.
In an ideal world, you want to get a sponsor that matches well with your team and it's color scheme, has connections to the city itself, and it's embarrassing in it's subject matter. Washington may have kind of pulled off the first two, but adding an AARP patch to their uniforms is a huge whiff when it comes to avoid being made fun of.
NEXT GEN NATITUDE 🤝 @AARP pic.twitter.com/Yiaw2D6FxV
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) June 30, 2025
Nationals adding AARP uniform patches is objectively hilarious
If we are being honest, this Nationals patch would have hit a little different a few years ago. Washington is annoying young and talented these days and the patch would have matched better when the Nationals were trotting the corpse of Patrick Corbin out every fifth day and they were signing aging veterans to one year deals during their rebuild.
Still, there are opportunities here. If some of the Nationals slower players (looking at you, Keibert Ruiz and Josh Bell) look particularly bad on the bases, jokes about using walkers and contacting their AARP reps are easy money. If they sign or trade for any aging players, "they will fit right in" should be the de facto response.
Braves fans may want to be careful and not go too far as having a concrete company as a sponsor with the team sinking like they are wearing cement shoes is comic fodder in itself. We have no idea what the Nationals were thinking here, but hopefully they are getting a good bit of money out of the deal at least.