Recently, your team of Overthinking It writers decided to celebrate Labor Day by creating a product line so irresistible to consumers that none of us would ever have to work again. Readers, I give you… Overthinking It T-Shirts.

You’ve subjected the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn’t deserve. Now, let that culture subject you to a level of scrutiny you probably don’t deserve, when you wear any of these fine creations out in public.

And, through Labor Day only, get free shipping or some such when you spend your cash money on our crap. Details on the individual shirt pages.

And stay tuned for our next line of merch, tentatively termed Underthinking It. They’re R-rated.

Okay, sorry for my time away sports fans. Let’s pick up where we left off.

In the last two posts, I’ve discussed the inversion at the heart of sports movies — how the screen serves as a window and a mirror, telling a story in opposition to a viewer’s expectations and perspective. Rookie of the Year is about a kid who’s bad at baseball, Major League is about how serious our National Pastime is, and Necessary Roughness, it turns out, is a fairly frivolous movie intended for leisure that’s pleasant and easy to watch—that is, neither Necessary, nor Rough (nor an Empire, which if you ask me is a damned shame).

And there’s my segue. Guys in green shirts.