NFLP TO PUMA: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS WITH SOME WARNER JERSEYS

          Rams QB Kurt Warner is "so big there's a jersey crisis
     in St. Louis," according to Ron Borges of the BOSTON GLOBE. 
     NFLP "had not made a deal" to produce a Warner jersey, so
     when he "took the league by storm, it could not get shirts
     to stores."  NFLP "needed permission" from the NFLPA, which
     "took nearly a week."  Team apparel licensee Puma then had
     to get blank Rams jerseys sent to its IN factory, which
     "didn't happen until last week."  Shipping of the replica
     jerseys now "won't begin for another week."  Borges added
     that the "fastest way" to get a Warner jersey is to purchase
     it custom-made through NFL.com, "but even that takes three
     weeks because of the backlog" (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/17).