Retro Soccer Jerseys/Logos

[Panthers]

Has anyone seen this site? http://www.toffs.com/icat/naslandsouthamerican

The New York Cosmos replicas appear to be right - they wore navy, white, green at various times.

The Atlanta Chiefs are wrong, so are the Seattle Sounders and California Surf from what I remember.

Comments?

[2mr41h]

Agreed. The Atlanta Chiefs kit is all wrong - it's got the Kaizer Chiefs wordmark instead of the script "Chiefs" wordmark that Atlanta used. What is Toffs thinking here?

[Gothamite]

I love TOFFS, but they do take some liberties. The latest is to add badges onto football shirts where they don't belong, to avoid having blank shirts.

http://www.toffs.com/invt/1828

[Panthers]

If I remember correctly about the California Surf - the colors were white, lime, medium blue and light blue and they wore the "Surf" across the body - the logo was a wave. Seattle wore their logo across the body too and the Chiefs had broad bands. Lucky they didn't make the Atlanta Apollos, Denver Dynamo or Colorado Caribou shirts.

[Titanole]

I love TOFFS, but they do take some liberties.  The latest is to add badges onto football shirts where they don't belong, to avoid having blank shirts.

That's what they did with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers shirt as well. They never had the logo as a badge. In 1977 it was just the red and yellow hoops and small block "STRIKERS" in black on the right breast. Then sometime in 1978 they switched to the large "STRIKERS" across the chest that they wore for the rest of their existence.

I think because so many of the NASL shirts had the giant logo on the front instead of the badge on the breast, most replica makers have avoided making them. If they do, they tend to make them as they wish, hoping no one will remember.

[Panthers]

I still have my Admiral Strikers replica from 1979. At that time most of the jerseys had broad stripes vertical or horizontal - and only a few stuck with the badge look. Here's what I remember:

full body: Vancouver, Seattle, Atlanta, California, Tampa Bay

Fully body stripe (horizontal) + badge: Chicago, Montreal(?), Denver (Dynamo), Boston (Minutemen), (vertical): New England/Jacksonville, Philadelphia

Bage only: LA, NY, Memphis, Tulsa, Toronto, Baltimore (Comets), Detroit, Houston

That's all I can remember.

[schtee]

The NASL had some butters logos, specifically the Cosmos and Aztecs.

Those prices aren't even so bad once converted to amuhrican dollars

[Titanole]

I still have my Admiral Strikers replica from 1979.

Since you have the shirt, maybe you can answer a question I've been wondering for years.

I remember that the Strikers used to sell the Admiral replicas at Lockhart. (Sadly I didn't get one, but it wouldn't fit me today anyway.) For some reason I have this memory that the replica just the red and yellow hoops but did not have "STRIKERS" written across it as the authentic shirts did.

Am I remembering correctly or is that one of those memories that's gone wrong after twenty-some odd years?