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I found a Philadelphia Flyers kid's T-shirt in the Seattle area recently. XD

Got a 1992-2002 white Pittsburgh Penguins (then) home jersey for $35.

I got the Seattle Seahawks alternate green jersey for $25.

On 2/23/2023 at 6:28 PM, MJWalker45 said:

The NFL was too risk adverse when they pulled the plug. The loss in reps was seen over the years as some of the game play at the start of the NFL season was not as sharp as those years the WLAF/ NFL Europe existed to allow players to work on technique. 

 

Aesthetic wise, it's a shame those uniform designs didn't stay around, at least the looks of the 1991-1992 seasons. Templating took away from the teams when they returned in 1995 as a Europe only league.

One thing I actually liked about the league was even though there was a "template", it wasn't one uniform design stuck on every team. I also loved the fact that the sleeves for home and away were the same for some of the teams. Ohio, and Sacramento had this. Orlando did a s well, but only for the 1992 season.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5092/5403274116_cbf7a5d683_z.jpg

 

 

 

The league also started wearing the championship game patch way before the NFL finally did.

 

Also, choosing colors that weren't normally associated with pro teams really helped the league stand out. Over time they went back to standard colors, with the exception of Hamburg, whose current iteration is now a mix of the colors for Hamburg and Cologne.

 

The league did try the experiment of making football jerseys look like soccer jerseys. I actually have a Frankfurt Galaxy and Rhein Fire authentic. The Rhein Fire jersey which copied these designs when they entered the league is from Fab Knit, the Galaxy is a 1995 Reebok jersey. 

Re: The Championship game patch: It first appeared @ Super Bowl XXV five months before World Bowl '91.

I got a Toronto Blue Jays necktie for $5.

Found a Julian Edelman Patriots jersey for $40 @ Buffalo Exchange (love that store).

Found a 2008 Washington Nationals alternate BAT BOY jersey for $30 at a vintage clothing store. I love going to such places as well.

Got a Hamilton Tiger-Cats T-shirt (yay CFL!) for $4, and a Seattle Dragons (from three years ago) cap for $7.

 - A new entry - when the late Hank Aaron's jersey number #44 was retired by the Braves in 1977, they gave him a jersey that was the successor to the last look he wore for the team.

More great finds: A Seattle Kraken cap and a Staten Island Yankees cap, and at a vintage store, a 2002-11 Seahawks home jersey with RAGSDALE and the #96.  Not too bad.....

While Tom Seaver did wear the Mets racing stripe "home jersey", I think this counts, as in 1987, the by-then 42 year old  Seaver faced off againts Mets minor leaguers, and then retired; he's wearing this one year only style road uniform.

More deets here: https://njbaseball.net/tom-seaver-1987-mets/

The database has now entered the 1980s with 1980.

Well, I got an Arizona Diamondbacks sweater and Seattle Kraken jersey for $20 each, and a minor league cap whose team I cannot recognize for $10:

And this one, which I did not get because it didn't fit me:

Anybody know who these teams are?

Now I got a Minnesota Vikings Ahmad Rashad #28 jersey for $6. Nice!

Also, here's one fun thing the WLAF had: Three Easter Sunday games, one in 1991, and two in 1992!

1 hour ago, Sykotyk said:

I was pretty young, so I remember the WLAF, but not able to distinguish much between that incarnation and the NFL Europe incarnation that came later. And I can't find it, but I swear the NFL Europe incarnation was originally called the WLAF for a few more seasons even when it was all Europe. But can't seem to find anything to corroborate it.

 

 

You are correct, the league kept the World League name for three seasons (1995-97; the league took a two-season hiatus in 1993 and 1994) before transitioning to NFL Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4aobHByj8 - Also: The one good thing that came out of the WLAF: The Helmetcam. Yes, it was quite bulky and cumbersome, but for its time, it was quite the game-changer in football coverage on TV.

^ Riddell did something similiar for the USFL a decade earlier; of note is the WLAF masks were made of Kra-Lite plastic, and could reportedly hold up a normal-size car w/o breaking.

Another thing of note, is that the WLAF placed their league logo on the hip of the pants, and not the yoke of the jersey collar as would later become standard.

Well, a day later, the PHILLIPS jersey came home with me, and I got a Seahawks 2012 white jersey w/ the name LYNN and the #13 for $6.

I found the 2010-15 Toronto Maple Leafs jersey for $15, and a 1983-94 Kansas City Royals BP jersey w/the name REESE and #61 on the back, with this autograph on the front:

Who is it?

Also, I turned down a 2010s $22 Seattle Mariners BP jersey (with the name Phillips and the #62), since I have one like it already.

So I broke through and found a Seattle Mariners spring training cap with the trident in the current colors for $16, the Dallas Stars 1998-2007 "star" jersey for $20, and a Cincinnati Reds current style jersey with the name SCHUELER and the #66 on it for $20. Nice.

EDIT: It's likely the Reds jersey was a custom one, as my research has found out nobody with that name has ever worn that number for the team.

Well, my first find for this year is this Mets cap for $6.

From the "Wait, WHAT?!" department:  Julius Erving, aka Dr. J. actually was an Atlanta Hawk..... for all of two exhibition games in 1972.

More here: https://www.sportscasting.com/julius-erving-atlanta-hawks-short-fawned-1-their-stars/

1979 is in.