1982 NFL merchandise

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Found this by way of Gizmodo and figured this forum would appreciate it. Check out this fun 1982 NFL merchandise from a JCPenny Wishbook:

Much more on this Flickr gallery.

Enjoy!

[BrianLion]

I just remember the teeth-gnashing I would do back in the day reading those dept store catalogs when the 'Team Available" section hardly ever contained the Lions.

You young guys don't know how good you have it!

/old man

Also those peanut machines are awesome, and are probably a real collector's item at this point. I couldn't find one out on eBay.

[chakfu]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

[STL_ArchMadness]

I wonder what those helmets were like, even for 1982, $18 seems cheap for that kind of merchandise. Great stuff.

[MCM0313]

I wonder what those helmets were like, even for 1982, $18 seems cheap for that kind of merchandise. Great stuff.

Yeah, less than the actual football! Still, they weren't full-sized or anything, and they look a bit cheap...kind of like if those helmets you used to be able to get at Dairy Queen had a "deluxe" version with more authentic detail.

Speaking of DQ helmets, I have Bengals and Eagles from late '80s/early '90s. Fun times.

[MCM0313]

Found this by way of Gizmodo and figured this forum would appreciate it. Check out this fun 1982 NFL merchandise from a JCPenny Wishbook:

Much more on this Flickr gallery.

Enjoy!

It was through the J.C. Penney catalog in the mid 1990s that I first got into helmets. They had the Hutch Little Pro helmet-and-uniform sets for $20 or $30 apiece. I got one in 1994---I picked the Chiefs because of Joe Montana. I still have the whole thing somewhere, except maybe the shoulder pads. I peeled the Hutch sticker off the front of the helmet because I thought it would look better without it (it did). I really used to drool over the full-sized replica ($80) and authentic (a lot more) helmets, though. Unlike the Hutch uniforms and a lot of the merchandise, they actually were available in all 28 teams (then all 30 my fifth-grade year). I saved up and bought the replica versions of the Vikings and Patriots---Vikings because I loved (and still love) how the horns wrapped around the back of the helmet to almost meet back there (interestingly enough, since the Seahawks have become the first NFL team to have logos that actually meet in the back of the helmet, I have realized that almost meeting looks better), and Patriots because they were my favorite team at the time (Bledsoe-and-Parcells era) and I liked the Flying Elvis logo a lot (and it also wrapped around to the back). They were used extensively in touch football games. Other favorite helmets of mine in those days included those of the Rams (the horns are awesome), the Seahawks (wraparound logo again), the Broncos (horse-jumping-through-the-D is still an all-time favorite logo of mine, and I loved how their helmet would appear to be a different shade of blue depending on the lighting), the Buccaneers (Bucco Bruce, great stripe, and the feathers in his cap sort of wrapped around the top almost to the helmet stripe), the Saints, the Jets (nice shade of green and cool logo), and the Dolphins (wonderful color scheme and cool logo and helmet stripe). Had I suddenly come into possession of $10K in those days and my parents been unable to dictate how I spent it, I probably would've gotten a full-sized replica (maybe even authentic) helmet of every NFL team. Heck, I'd probably do that today if I could. Better yet, my favorite helmet of every NFL team.

Side note: Interesting to see how prominently featured the Falcons were in 1982.

[perfesser]

I wonder what those helmets were like, even for 1982, $18 seems cheap for that kind of merchandise. Great stuff.

I had four of those helmets. (Dolphins, Packers, Falcons, Chiefs) They met NOCSAE standards at the time for under-12, as the ad states. The interior padding was held in with adhesive. The decals were rather cheap, however.

[Jungle Jim]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

I did the same thing!

Glad to see my Bengals featured prominently the year after making their first Super Bowl. It was a nice change from seeing Dallas and Pittsburgh featured every year in the late 70s.

I have that entire 1982 helmet set, and as pefesser said, they were real helmets, albeit small enough for a kid to wear. My biggest criticism is that most of the logos are way too small.

Got em' off ebay back when it first started in the 90s. Seller said they were bought by an adult who worked at Rawlings and never played with. Unfortunately, the extreme temperatures of my garage have caused some of the logos to wrinkle a little in a place or two, but they're still pretty nice. Paid $280 for all 28, thus fulfilling a childhood fantasy. When time travel becomes readily available and affordable, I'm going back to the late 70s and clean up on some NFL stuff from those catalogs.

[TruColor]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

And ironically, in the late '80s through the early '90s, I was working for Basketball Digest on the side updating their NBA roster information. I would also crossover and do some of the same kind of stuff for their sister publication - Inside Sports.

I used to be almost fanatical about tracking pro basketball information as I now am with color research.

[dbadefense1990]

Kind of interesting how it's a catalog of JCPenney circa-1982, and a peanut dispenser donning the Oakland Raiders exist, given all the legal mumbo-jumbo regarding their controversial move to Los Angeles at this time.

[MJWalker45]

I remember that for a long while the Raiders didn't have Los Angeles on most of their fan gear for a little while. I didn't think about it at the time.

[Jungle Jim]

I remember that.

Here is an example. This was from 1981...

...and this was from 1982...

[AgentColon2]

That old generic font reminds me of the current Dolphins wordmark. The one used on the shirts above.

[MCM0313]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

I did the same thing!

Glad to see my Bengals featured prominently the year after making their first Super Bowl. It was a nice change from seeing Dallas and Pittsburgh featured every year in the late 70s.

I have that entire 1982 helmet set, and as pefesser said, they were real helmets, albeit small enough for a kid to wear. My biggest criticism is that most of the logos are way too small.

Got em' off ebay back when it first started in the 90s. Seller said they were bought by an adult who worked at Rawlings and never played with. Unfortunately, the extreme temperatures of my garage have caused some of the logos to wrinkle a little in a place or two, but they're still pretty nice. Paid $280 for all 28, thus fulfilling a childhood fantasy. When time travel becomes readily available and affordable, I'm going back to the late 70s and clean up on some NFL stuff from those catalogs.

So, Jim, I gotta ask...are you THE Jungle Jim? If so, I love your store. If not, I still love not your store.

[BrandMooreArt]

those apparel graphics would still make great tees today on some vintage tri-blends.

my first introduction to sports design was through JCPenny as well. it was 1990 and the page had all the NFL unis being modeled. i picked out the Cowboys because i thought they had the coolest helmet. the next year they won the SuperBowl and i was a 'Boys fan until Emmitt left. i also ended up getting the Bears (grandpa's favorite team) and Bengals (uncles favorite team).

[Jungle Jim]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

I did the same thing!

Glad to see my Bengals featured prominently the year after making their first Super Bowl. It was a nice change from seeing Dallas and Pittsburgh featured every year in the late 70s.

I have that entire 1982 helmet set, and as pefesser said, they were real helmets, albeit small enough for a kid to wear. My biggest criticism is that most of the logos are way too small.

Got em' off ebay back when it first started in the 90s. Seller said they were bought by an adult who worked at Rawlings and never played with. Unfortunately, the extreme temperatures of my garage have caused some of the logos to wrinkle a little in a place or two, but they're still pretty nice. Paid $280 for all 28, thus fulfilling a childhood fantasy. When time travel becomes readily available and affordable, I'm going back to the late 70s and clean up on some NFL stuff from those catalogs.

So, Jim, I gotta ask...are you THE Jungle Jim? If so, I love your store. If not, I still love not your store.

Hey, MCM. I PM'd you, since some here have lately been getting testy about taking threads off-topic.

[MCM0313]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

I did the same thing!

Glad to see my Bengals featured prominently the year after making their first Super Bowl. It was a nice change from seeing Dallas and Pittsburgh featured every year in the late 70s.

I have that entire 1982 helmet set, and as pefesser said, they were real helmets, albeit small enough for a kid to wear. My biggest criticism is that most of the logos are way too small.

Got em' off ebay back when it first started in the 90s. Seller said they were bought by an adult who worked at Rawlings and never played with. Unfortunately, the extreme temperatures of my garage have caused some of the logos to wrinkle a little in a place or two, but they're still pretty nice. Paid $280 for all 28, thus fulfilling a childhood fantasy. When time travel becomes readily available and affordable, I'm going back to the late 70s and clean up on some NFL stuff from those catalogs.

So, Jim, I gotta ask...are you THE Jungle Jim? If so, I love your store. If not, I still love not your store.

Hey, MCM. I PM'd you, since some here have lately been getting testy about taking threads off-topic.

Whoops, my bad. I love this topic, though. It'd be great if people could post the 1993, 1994, and 1995 JCPenney's Christmas catalogs, as those were the ones I looked at the most. Ah, nostalgia!

[ConcreteCharlie]

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

I did the same thing!

Glad to see my Bengals featured prominently the year after making their first Super Bowl. It was a nice change from seeing Dallas and Pittsburgh featured every year in the late 70s.

I have that entire 1982 helmet set, and as pefesser said, they were real helmets, albeit small enough for a kid to wear. My biggest criticism is that most of the logos are way too small.

Got em' off ebay back when it first started in the 90s. Seller said they were bought by an adult who worked at Rawlings and never played with. Unfortunately, the extreme temperatures of my garage have caused some of the logos to wrinkle a little in a place or two, but they're still pretty nice. Paid $280 for all 28, thus fulfilling a childhood fantasy. When time travel becomes readily available and affordable, I'm going back to the late 70s and clean up on some NFL stuff from those catalogs.

So, Jim, I gotta ask...are you THE Jungle Jim? If so, I love your store. If not, I still love not your store.

Hey, MCM. I PM'd you, since some here have lately been getting testy about taking threads off-topic.

Whoops, my bad. I love this topic, though. It'd be great if people could post the 1993, 1994, and 1995 JCPenney's Christmas catalogs, as those were the ones I looked at the most. Ah, nostalgia!

[Fresno St. Alum]

from the 88 and 85 sears catalogs. I posted this in another thread. I had the 49ers and Redskins

[MCM0313]

from the 88 and 85 sears catalogs. I posted this in another thread. I had the 49ers and Redskins

Hmmm...Ken Anderson, Dan Fouts, Danny White, and Joe Theismann, but also Dan Marino, John Elway, and Tony Eason. Herschel Walker is a Cowboy and Eric Dickerson is a Colt. And a picture of kids in Montana and Marino sets identical to those worn in Super Bowl XIX. I'm gonna guess this is from 1985. Or at the latest, 1986.

Also, that Elway uniform is sweet.

I used to cut logos out of these catalogs to mount on magnets to make standings boards, that's how I first got interested in logos, around '89 or so. Copied the magnetic standing boards that were advertised in basketball digest.

I did the same thing!

Glad to see my Bengals featured prominently the year after making their first Super Bowl. It was a nice change from seeing Dallas and Pittsburgh featured every year in the late 70s.

I have that entire 1982 helmet set, and as pefesser said, they were real helmets, albeit small enough for a kid to wear. My biggest criticism is that most of the logos are way too small.

Got em' off ebay back when it first started in the 90s. Seller said they were bought by an adult who worked at Rawlings and never played with. Unfortunately, the extreme temperatures of my garage have caused some of the logos to wrinkle a little in a place or two, but they're still pretty nice. Paid $280 for all 28, thus fulfilling a childhood fantasy. When time travel becomes readily available and affordable, I'm going back to the late 70s and clean up on some NFL stuff from those catalogs.

So, Jim, I gotta ask...are you THE Jungle Jim? If so, I love your store. If not, I still love not your store.

Hey, MCM. I PM'd you, since some here have lately been getting testy about taking threads off-topic.

Whoops, my bad. I love this topic, though. It'd be great if people could post the 1993, 1994, and 1995 JCPenney's Christmas catalogs, as those were the ones I looked at the most. Ah, nostalgia!

I may have had that Dolphins sweatshirt-and-pants set. They had the greatest color scheme. Still have one of the best.