It’s AFL shirt day at ESPN!

You know how sometimes, when you’re running late for work, clumsily attempting to simultaneously brush your teeth, put in your contact lenses, shower, down that all-important first cup of coffee and find an unripped pair of nylons, a familiar feeling of panic sets in, as you realize you have absolutely nothing to wear?

Well, ESPN staffers sure won’t be having that problem today!

ESPN content veep John Skipper wants his employees to wear their complimentary AFL shirts “as a symbol of welcome to our Arena Football guests.” A staffer writes to Romenesko: “I find it increasingly difficult to square such promotional stunts with my journalistic ethics and principles. We’re supposed to objectively cover the AFL, and yet we’re being asked to wear an AFL t-shirt to show our support when the league’s bosses walk through the newsroom?”

We totally hear you, anonymous ESPN staffer! And while we empathize with you being an involuntary participant in this latent propoganda, we also kind of wish we were there to see it. [Full disclosure: We’ve been counting down to this Friday (a.k.a. “Hawaiian Shirt Day”) ever since we first got the memo!]