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Archive - March 2008 You asked, we answered! Houston Mavericks ABA addedPosted Mar-28-08 22:14:15 PDT One of our customers recently requested logowear from the Houston Mavericks, formerly of the American Basketball Association. After doing a trademark scan and finding there were no issues with that, we added about 20 different products to our store containing the Mavericks logo! Also added this week were the Chicago Sting of the NASL and MISL, and the Dallas Tornado of the NASL. We also added several grey colored items from teams already listed, as well as some new embroidered golf shirt listings. Stay tuned as we'll be adding even more teams and garments for our logos. We'll be having a full line of golf shirts and various caps with the embroidered logos. About our production timesPosted Mar-15-08 12:37:11 PDT Some recent comments have been regarding our production time. As stated in every listing we have, our products will ship out of our office within 10 BUSINESS DAYS from the time of the order. We have never missed this deadline! In one recent case, the product was ordered but no size was stated. After 2 days of emailing we finally received the size information and were able to proceed with the order. This product shipped 4 business days later, and was received by the customer 8 business days after the order was made. Yet we still did not receive a positive feedback response. Each one of our products is made-to-order, meaning, we do not stock all the various teams on the various garments in the various sizes. When a size small hooded sweatshirt is ordered, first we must check if we have a garment on hand. If not, we order it from our supplier. We must then wait for that shipment before we can begin our production. Once we get the shirt in, we print the logo on and ship it out as quickly as possible. Another variable is the fact that not all of the logos are in hi-res format at the time they are ordered. Sometimes we need to spend a day re-creating the logo that was ordered. That said, many of our orders go out within a day or two. We understand our customers will always hope for the quicker turnaround, but we cannot guarantee it. Therefore, we would appreciate a positive feedback response unless we do not hold true to our word on the "10 business days" turnaround promise. As with all custom made products, a rocket-fast turnaround can never be promised. What we can promise is that we'll always do our best to make sure our customers receive their garments in the shortest time possible within 10 business days. Please keep in mind the rarity of our products and what we are offering. The bottom line is, our logos on the garments we offer cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. We feel we're doing a great service by keeping these old vintage logos alive for future generations. Custom Embroidered Twill CapsPosted Mar-14-08 17:40:06 PDT That's right. As of today we are beginning to add custom embroidered twill caps to our listings! Eventually we will offer our logos embroidered on fitted caps, golf shirts, and much more. If you have a logo for a twill cap request from our already listed vintage teams, please contact us and we will list that team for you. We're in the process of adding 100's of listings to our store so it will take some time to get all of our current logos up, plus logos from 100's of other vintage teams that we have yet to list. Colored shirts coming soon!Posted Mar-13-08 21:53:45 PDT Updated Mar-13-08 21:54:53 PDT After taking a good look at what we are offering, and what is possible with direct-to-garment technology, we've decided to begin adding various colored garments to our selection of vintage logowear. Because the printer does not have white ink, it was a concern that logos what have white in them would not look quite right on a colored garment (since whatever is white in the logo would end up the color of the shirt). But we realized that many of the logos will work without taking away from the overall design. We'll have to stay with lighter colors obviously. So we'll be starting with a selection of light-grey, and then adding logo-relevant colored garments such as yellow, light blue, and maybe some light khaki colors for certain items. With our raglan jersey shirts, will most likely be switching to the Port Authority brand, and begin offering team-specific colors on the sleeves and collar. For example, we'll have a white with royal blue raglan available for the San Diego Sockers, Tampa Bay Rowdies, and Dayton Gems raglans. Additionally, we'll soon be adding listings for Women's and Children's garments with our vintage logos on them. We're only just now getting started and there is much work to be done... 1953 Bonneville Speed Trials, Soldier Field Speedway Vintage Logos addedPosted Mar-07-08 21:56:15 PST We decided to divert from our course while we sat here and watched the snow pile up outside the window. That's right...Cincinnati and its surrounding counties are getting absolutely pounded with snow this very moment! So much for "global warming." So we had some fun in re-creating some very cool vintage racing logos. The Bonneville Speed Trials logo from 1953, Soldier Field Stock Car Races logo from the mid-50's, and the Great Lakes Dragaway logo from the same era. These logos came from original decals that my father had picked up from those very locations, in those very years. I scanned them in and used my design software to re-create them. I intentionally left the text and artwork a little "bumpy" to match the vintage look. The results turned out quite well. One might notice on the Soldier Field logo that the bottom line reads "EVERY FRIDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHTS". We had some discussion about the English that was used (the plural "NIGHTS"). Maybe they raced during the day on Fridays? Anyway, we decided to leave it untouched since that is how they had it on the decal. How awesome to have brand-new t-shirts and sweatshirts with beautifully re-created logos that were originally designed over 50 years ago. Now back to adding NASL items. We'll be adding more vintage automotive logos (many more very cool decals were discovered) in the near future. And as always, if you have any vintage logos in your possession that you'd like to have on a shirt, please do let us know. We'll check for any trademark issues, re-create the logo, and list the items right here in our ebay store for the world to enjoy. North American Soccer League (NASL)Posted Mar-05-08 00:25:35 PST We've begun adding logowear from the vintage line of North American Soccer League teams. The NASL was in existence from 1968-1984. Starting with a few of the more successful and/or memorable teams in the history of the NASL (such as the New York Cosmos and Tampa Bay Rowdies which have already been added to our store), we plan to make available every team possible on each of the 9 high-quality garments we offer. Stay tuned as we begin to create these exciting retro logos that are simply NOT available anywhere else! We'll be working hard in the next few weeks to add the more than 60 teams that made up the NASL. And now for a little history about the league itself... In 1967 two professional soccer leagues started in the United States: the FIFA-sanctioned United Soccer Association and the unsanctioned National Professional Soccer League. The National Professional Soccer League had a national television contract in the U.S. with the CBS television network, but the ratings for matches were unacceptable even by weekend daytime standards and the arrangement was terminated. The leagues merged in 1968 to form the North American Soccer League (NASL). It has been suggested that the timing of the merge was related to the huge amount of attention given throughout the English-speaking world to the victory by England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup and the resulting documentary film, Goal. The league lasted until the 1984 NASL season when it suspended operations. However, four NASL teams (Chicago, Minnesota, New York, and San Diego) joined the Major Indoor Soccer League for its 1984-85 season. The NASL itself operated an indoor soccer league from 1979-80 to 1981-82 and in 1983-84. The biggest club in the league and the organization's bellwether was the New York Cosmos, who drew upwards of 40,000 fans per game at their height while aging Brazilian superstar Pelé (considered to be the greatest player of all time) played for them. Giants Stadium sold out (73,000+) their 1978 championship win. However, the overall average attendance of the entire league never reached 15,000, with some clubs averaging fewer than 5,000. The NASL faced challenges in regard to selling the sport of soccer to Americans, which was then completely foreign to the majority of them. The league "Americanized" the rules in the attempt to make the game more exciting, and comprehensible, to the average American sports fan. These changes included a clock that counted time down to zero as was typical of other timed American sports, rather than upwards to 45 minutes as was traditional, a 35 yard line for offsides rather than the traditional half way line, and a shootout to decide matches that ended in a draw. The foreign image of soccer was not helped, however, by a league that brought in many older, high profile foreign players, and frequently left Americans on the bench. This effort was often doubly futile, as while many of the foreign players were perhaps "big names" in their home countries, almost none of them qualified as such in North America, and they quickly absorbed most of the available payroll, such as it was, which could have otherwise been used to pay North American players better. Overexpansion was a huge factor in the death of the league. Once the league started growing, new franchises were awarded quickly, and it doubled in size in a few years, peaking at 24 teams. Many have suggested that cash-starved existing owners longed for their share of the expansion fee charged of new owners, even though Forbes Magazine reported this amount as being only $100,000. This resulted in the available talent being spread too thinly, among other problems. Additionally, many of these new owners were not "soccer people", and once the perceived popularity started to decline, they got out as quickly as they got in. They also spent millions on aging stars to try to match the success of the Cosmos, and lost significant amounts of money in doing so. Also, FIFA's decision to award the hosting of the 1986 FIFA World Cup to Mexico after Colombia withdrew, rather than the U.S., is considered a factor in the NASL's demise. While the NASL ultimately failed, it introduced soccer to the North American sports scene on a large scale for the first time and was a major contributing factor in soccer becoming one of the most popular sports among American youth. In the late-1980s, FIFA did award the World Cup to the U.S., which would be staged in 1994. It has also provided lessons for its successor Major League Soccer, which has taken precautions against such problems. American college and high school soccer still use some NASL-style rules. WHA Dayton AerosPosted Mar-01-08 12:58:25 PST We have recently added one of our favorite entries so far in our line of vintage logowear: the 1972 Dayton Aeros. In 1972 the only real threat ever to the NHL's dominance of the hockey world began when Dennis Murphy and Gary Davidson concocted the World Hockey Association. No strangers to starting rebel sports leagues, they were also behind the defunct by now American Basketball Association, and would later start up the United States Football League. Officially announced on June 10, 1971 in New York, the WHA's philosophy was relatively simple - establish themselves in cities shunned by the NHL (many Canadian), as well as set up base in North America's media centres, competing head-on with the competition. On Nov 1, 1971, Murphy and Davidson announced the 10 charter cities would be Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Dayton Ohio, Long Island NY, and St Paul Minnesota, with themselves owning a club in San Fransisco. The Dayton team was named "Aeros" in reference to the city being the birthplace of the inventors of aviation, the illustrious Orville and Wilbur Wright. The Dayton Aeros participated in the WHA's 1972 "General Player Draft." To pick these players each team wrote 4 player names on a piece of paper. After the names were written they were announced in front of the league. Dayton's 4 picks were: #1) Guy Trottier #2) Andre Hinse #3) Larry Lund and #4) Wayne Rutledge. Although Dayton was one of the original ten franchises for the World Hockey Association, the team was doomed from the beginning because a lack of a proper arena and little interest from the local residents. Due to these problems, owner Paul Deneau moved the team to Houston, Texas on March 30, 1972. In Houston, the team would become one of the most successful franchises in the history of the World Hockey Association. Among the players for the Aeros were Gordie Howe and his two sons Mark and Marty, who became the first father/son combination to play together in professional hockey. |
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