Apparel & Hardlines Licensing Application

Before submitting this information request to NFL Players Incorporated (“NFLPI”), please review everything carefully for completeness. All questions must be answered (if an item does not apply, write “N/A”). Failure to respond to any item will preclude further consideration of your company’s licensing request.

THE INFORMATION REQUESTED BY NFLPI HEREIN DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO CONTRACT OR A SOLICITATION BY NFLPI TO CONTRACT.

You acknowledge that NFLPI regularly receives numerous licensing suggestions and that other parties, including our own employees, may have submitted to us or to others, or made public, or may in the future submit to us, licensing ideas similar or identical to product suggestions being made by you and that NFLPI may license such similar or identical products and that you will not be entitled to any
compensation deriving therefrom. If you believe the licensing suggestion to be proposed herein is completely unique and original to you, and no one else to your knowledge has any right in or to it, NFLPI will only consider your proposal upon your execution of NFLPI’s “Submission of Ideas” agreement (attached hereto) and upon terms stated therein.

1. Name of Business *This question is required.

2. Legal Name and Form of Corporation *This question is required.

3. Employer ID Number

4. Address

5. Phone Number This question requires a valid number format.

6. Email This question requires a valid email address.

7. Company's Website Address

8. Name & Title of Principal Contact

9. Business Ownership Information
Principal Owner(s) - Complete Name, Title & Business Address

10. Principal Management / Officers of the Company

11. Vice President

12. Sales Director

13. Marketing/Advertising Director

14. Chief Financial Officer

15. State in Which Business is Registered

16. Bank References

Name of Bank, Branch & Address

17. Account Number

18. Bank Contact

19. Phone Number This question requires a valid number format.

20. Credit References (Please provide two.)

21. Description of products you seek a license for.

22. Revenue model for each product:

Product Number One

Subscriptions
Micro-transactions
Sponsorship
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

23. Product Number Two

Subscriptions
Micro-transactions
Sponsorship
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

24. Product Number Three

Subscriptions
Micro-transactions
Sponsorship
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

25. If other, please explain here

27. Provide any trade or brand names of any other products developed/sold by your company.

28. Where will the product(s) be developed?

United States
Canada
Mexico
United Kingdom
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

29. Please list Name, Address, Contact and Phone Number for each studio to be used in development of product(s)

30. Provide any trade or brand names of any other products developed/sold by these studios

31. Company sales volume for most RECENT year.
Please include gross revenue, net revenue and total size of consumer base.

32. Company sales volume for PREVIOUS year.
Please include gross revenue, net revenue and total size of consumer base.

33. Please provide distribution capability:

Online Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.
Mobile/Wireless Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.
Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

34. Do you have any distribution/affiliate partners? If yes, who?

35. Sales Force

Define your sales force, including total number of internal salespersons, agents and the total number of sales force.

36. For each platform please provide; product name(s), percentage of sales volume, leading distribution channel(s)

Mobile/Wireless Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.
Online Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.
Other - Please Specify Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

37. Through which distribution channels would you sell the Licensed Product(s) you are proposing in this application?

Please provide up to six channels

38. Projected annual Gross & Net revenue for each product under this licensee in Year One (please seperate)

39. Projected annual Gross & Net revenue for each product under this licensee in Year Two (please separate)

40. If you currently sell a similar type of item, what was the Gross & Net revenue for the most recent year? (please separate)

41. List name, email address, and phone number for three references for your company currently does business with:

43. If yes, what type of advertising?

Consumer Advertising
Mobile Advertising
Online Advertising
Cross-Product/App
Other - Please Explain Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

44. What amount of advertising, promotion and funds do you plan to spend per year in support of the new licensed product(s) for the first year, should you receive a license?

45. What are the target dates for the development of initial marketing materials, development of the product and for the product to be available to consumers?

46. Does your firm use an advertising agency? If yes, please provide their name, address, key contact and phone number.

49. Does your company have a formal quality control program?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

50. Photography Rights/Imagery Needs

Do you plan to use Player Imagery or any stock imagery? If yes, please list how many player images will be needed in terms of both total images and individual players.

51. What is the capacity in which the imagery will be used?

Product
Marketing
Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

52. What rights are required?

53. If being used for marketing, how specifically would the images be used?

Social Media
Broadcast
Print
Digital/Online
Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

55. Please list all licensor/properties, be sure to include product rights, years under license and licensor contact information

57. Has your company, its predecessor in interests, or any of its principals ever been the subject of any proceeding or action arising out of trademark, copyright or patent infringements, or product liability?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

58. Has your company, its predecessor in interests, or any of its principals ever been the subject of any proceeding before the Federal Trade Commission?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

59. Please include with this form any or all of the following information you can provide. The more information
submitted, the faster NFL Players Inc. can make a decision on your application, including:

Annual report, sales catalog, letters of commendation from retailers for product quality/service, newspaper or magazine articles about your company, marketing plan for proposed product, any other materials which may help us elevate your company

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60. Consent to Background Check

Screening questionnaire for identification purposes: please list your last name, first name, middle name, complete address, social security number, date of birth, driver's license, state of issue

61. Authorization and General Release:
I hereby authorize NFL Players Incorporated (“NFLPI”) and all of its agents to request and receive any information and records concerning me, including, but not limited to, consumer credit, criminal record history, driving, employment, military, civil, regulatory, educational data, and reports from any individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, institutions, schools, governmental agencies, and departments, courts, law enforcement, and licensing agencies, consumer reporting agencies, and other entities, including my present and previous employers.

I further release and discharge NFLPI, all of its agents and all of its subsidiaries and affiliates, and every employee or agent of any of them, and all individuals and personal, business, private, or public entities of any kind, from any and all claims and liability arising out of any request(s) for, or receipt of, information or records pursuant to this authorization, or arising out of any compliance, with such request(s). I also authorize the procurement of an investigative consumer report and understand that it may involve personal interviews with sources such as friends, neighbors, and associates and may contain information about my character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living, whichever applicable. I understand that I have the right to make a written request within a reasonable period of time for a complete and accurate disclosure of additional information concerning the nature and scope of the investigation. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily provided the above information for qualification as an NFLPI licensee, and I have carefully read and understand this authorization.

I have been given a stand-alone, consumer notification that a report will be requested and used for the purpose of evaluating me for qualification as an NFLPI licensee. The following is my true and complete legal name, and all the above information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

62. POLICY CONCERNING SUBMISSION OF IDEAS AND OTHER
MATERIALS BY PROSPECTIVE LICENSEES:
We appreciate your interest in becoming a licensee of NFL Players Incorporated (“NFPLI”) and your suggestion for a potential new product, promotion or program (the “creative material”). However, we receive many suggestions concerning creative material which may have been made previously by our own staff or by others. Likewise, we might begin using creative material similar to yours which we received concurrently with or after the date of your submission. It has therefore become necessary for us to adopt the policy of refusing to consider any unsolicited creative material unless the person submitting it has signed the attached agreement. Kindly, do not submit to us any creative material which you deem to have a value in excess of the limits in Paragraph 1 of the Agreement. There are two copies of this agreement; please sign in the space provided, return one copy to us with your application and keep one copy for your records.

AGREEMENT
In accordance with the policy of NFLPI concerning creative material submissions by prospective licensees, today I am submitting to you certain material summarized below(“You” or “your” refers to NFLPI; “I” or “me” or “my” refers to the person or entity making the submission):
1.   You agree to cause your appropriate employee having the duty of evaluating creative material of the type now being submitted by me to review my submission. I agree that you may use my submission or one or more of its features or components for any purpose you deem appropriate and regardless of whether you agree to grant me a license. If you use my submission, and provide that, in your opinion, it is original, creative and valuable, you agree to pay me as total compensation such sum of money as we may subsequently agree upon in writing. Alternatively, you may grant me a license, on terms and conditions to be mutually agreed upon, to use the name, image or likeness or other identifying feature of NFL players in connection with a product or service based on the submission. If we do not reach an agreement with respect to the terms of an NFLPI license and we are unable to agree upon the amount of compensation you will pay me, then I agree to accept as full consideration for all rights of any kind an amount to be determined by you in good faith; but in no event to exceed the sum of (i) $2,000 if the submission is used for either a promotion or product or (ii) $3,000 if the submission is used for both a promotion and a product. I agree that I can suffer no damages in excess of this amount from your use of my creative material or for any other claim with respect to my creative material.
2.   I declare that all of the important features of my submission are summarized below and that I have disclosed no other features to you. I warrant that the submission is original with me and that no one else to my knowledge has any right in or to it. I believe my submission and its features to be unique and creative. However, I recognize that other persons including your own employees may have submitted to you or to others or made public, or may in the future originate and submit, or make public, similar or identical creative material which you may have the right to use, and I understand that I will not be entitled to any compensation because of your use of other similar or identical creative material.
3.   All disputes relating to my submission shall be governed by New York law. Any controversy arising as to whether you used my submission, or relating to this agreement, will be conclusively determined by arbitration, as provided by New York law and the regulations of the American Arbitration Association and our arbitrator will be a person experienced in the marketing of sports-related creative properties mutually selected by us; if we cannot agree, we will accept as arbitrator any person designated by the President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York who will agree to arbitrate the controversy, in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s decision shall be controlled by the terms of this agreement and no award may exceed the appropriate amount specified in Paragraph 1. Judgment upon the award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. I agree that any action against you must be brought within six months after your first use of my material.
4.   I have retained a copy of the submission to you and release you from liability for loss or damage to the submission.
5.   This agreement constitutes our entire understanding. Any modification or waiver must be in writing, signed by both of us. The invalidity of any provision is not to affect the remaining provisions. This agreement applies equally to any other submission which I may provide to you, unless agreed in writing to the contrary at the time of submission.
6.   No termination of this agreement and no acts with respect to the submission (such as your returning it to me) will be deemed to affect our respective rights under Paragraphs 1 and 3 above (including those as to amount of compensation, agreement to arbitrate and time for bringing action) and all rights will survive any termination or acts. I acknowledge receipt of a Prospective Licensee Information Form.

Please provide: Company Name, Name of Signatory, Signature, Date, Address, Summary of Submission

63. Email This question requires a valid email address.

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