BUSTED MEMORABILIA: MAKE URBAN A MYTH!
Countless Africans really are wandering the streets of Lagos and Lome wearing “USC: BACK 2 BACK CHAMPIONS!!!” and “BRADY QUINN: HEISMANTASTIC!!!” t-shirts. Or at least we like to think so after reading about how hypothetical merchandise like “Buffalo Bills: Super Bowl Champs” tees and hats wind their way down the supply chain and onto the backs of Malian herdsmen.
An eagle-eyed reader saved one such example of neverwas memorabilia for us, however, and sent it post-haste to the Swindle Reptile Farm on Highway 78. The taste is a bit fresher on this one, however, and endlessly sweet for us.
Busted Memorabilia presents: the “Make Florida an Urban Myth” t-shirt.
The front:
Available in brilliant scarlet.
The back:
Well, it did end.
And, in your “economics illustrated” lesson of the day, the price tag:
Da hao to ‘Fesser for the shirt, and for spending more money to ship it than it cost to purchase the actual tee.
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PSUgirl says:
yeah, I still have my dad’s “Pennsylvania State University 1978 National Champions” T-shirt. It’s all retro now- the kids think I got it at Old Navy.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am
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PSUgirl says:
Oh, and they made Florida an “Urban Legend”
bucknuts.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:41 am
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JHova says:
Urban Myth? That doesn’t even make any sense. “Urban Legend” anyone? THE Ohio State University could do better…
May 7th, 2007 at 11:42 am
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DevilGrad says:
Shouldn’t the back say “Fuck Michigan” just for consistency’s sake?
May 7th, 2007 at 11:50 am
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Doug the future Mr. Theuriau says:
Thank the fucking Lord that wasn’t a Georgia shirt. I saw the bright-red color and got really worried for a second.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:59 am
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Aerobab says:
DG, I believe “Much Fichigan” is more appropriate. Then again, we are talking about tOSU fans, so perhaps you are right.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
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Aerobab says:
..and I can’t spell. “Muck Fichigan”. There.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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Matt says:
Except USC succeeded in becoming back to back champions. Just not back to back to back champions.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
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DC Trojan says:
No angry LSU denunciations of Matt’s comment? I guess Saban really doesn’t have time for this shit.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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Cardiac Kids says:
No…LSU was the BCS national champion in 2003.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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Odell 51 says:
I miss the subcomandante.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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Trojan Chica says:
And USC was the AP national champion in 2003… duh…
May 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
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kleph says:
every time i end up in the backwoods of south america i keep an eye out for those World Champion Philadelphia Eagles! – or something similar – t-shirts. sooner or later i’m going to find the motherload and eBay will stagger under the weight of my onslaught.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
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Matt says:
“No…LSU was the BCS national champion in 2003.”
And that has to do with USC winning the AP vote in 2003 how? Hell, even the BCS website admitted as much, unlike a certain school still bitter in Loisuiana.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
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RedDevilEA says:
Only slightly related: When I was stationed in Korea I worked as a construction inspector. One crew (of Korean nationals) had a guy who, instead of a hard-hat, wore a Miami Dolphins football helmet, sans facemask. Ahhh, fucking Korea.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
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TBone says:
Bitter? Hardly. Crystal football is in our case, not on the left coast. Contrats on having more AP writers that live on the West Coast than in the South. Great One-Pete in 2003. Enjoy your “title”.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
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Stacey Keibler Luvs Me says:
Jokers Dept:
LSU has stopped whining about USC being the mythical 2003 College Football National Champs? They finally got into the 21st century.
Everyone knows that in 2003 the AP vesion of the Mythical Title trumped the bs-BCS title version, because of major computer calculation issues that were “cured” a year later.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
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BaggyPantsDevil says:
The Third World is a treasure trove of American pop culture in the form of cast off–donated–t-shirts. Years ago, in Haiti, it was almost a sport looking for the most unintentionally humorous apparel.
A friend of mine–a punk rock enthusiast–once bought a “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” t-shirt from a guy for $10. That’s a lot of love for Johnny Rotten to take a shirt right off a Haitian’s back.
My top two favorites: one guy wearing a t-shirt–no doubt circa 1974–featuring different sexual positions for each sign of the zodiac and another with a hat that read “It’s Just One Fucking Thing After Another” which pretty much summed up Haiti.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Enjoy your “title”.
Thanks, it goes nicely with the 6 consensus MNCs and 4 other split MNCs.
I imagine it’s easy to keep the 2003 crystal football clean when you’re not having to dust around too many trophies.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
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crabs says:
why are you two even arguing about it? Saban is at THE University of Alabama (at Tuscaloosa) and therefore we will now claim his 1/2 title for our own!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
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tOSU_radar says:
My bitterness is long since gone, but this isn’t as great a find as a Jim Kelly Super Bowl MVP hat. It’s basically a “Beat Florida” shirt. When the Bucks lost, everything MNC related went on a fire sale. I could have sent you cases of the stuff in the weeks after the game from all the Columbus stores’ overstocks.
I do agree with DG: it’s not authentic unless there’s a “Screw M” logo somewhere on it.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
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JCarver27 says:
Got mine right along with my Florida Crocodiles Media Guide.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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Kahuna says:
One of my favorite pasttimes while living in Southeastern Europe (more similar to Southeastern USA than you’d guess), was playing “80’s Metal T-Shirt Bingo” when seeing the local youth walk around. I would say it was ironic if the micro-population of the country I lived in (@2 million) had ever discovered the concept of “irony”. Motley Crue and Iron Maiden t-shirts were fairly common, but spotting the rare Krokus or Dokken shirt was a sure winner…
May 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
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Papa Lou BSU says:
Ah, lovely, USC and LSU fans rehashing 2003 for the gazillionth time. Just what we all need here in two-thousand-aught-*seven*…
Yay! Here’s to fighting over two one-loss teams that won numbingly boring bowl games, but only in front of friendly, partisan crowds close to their own campuses.
Here’s to fighting over teams who, appropriately, were given a half-title (yes, a half-title is how the world sees it… learn to deal…) and a pat on the head in a year that featured numerous flawed teams in the upper reaches of the polls.
This has gotten to be like Michigan State and Louisville fans arguing which version of John L. Smith was face-slappin’ crazier.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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Steve says:
I hate LSU, and have nothing against USC. But they did not get back to back NC’s no more than Auburn was the NC for 2004 because they got the East Popcorn Gazette to vote them as the NC over USC.
If you weren’t in the BCS championship game as No. 1 or No. 2, then you don’t get to claim yourself as champion as a No. 3 playing an also ran.
Boise St. went undefeated this year, does that mean that Florida wasn’t the National Champion?
May 7th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Papa Lou BSU, most SC folks understand the half-title math – but when the Bama / Auburn people fall down on the threadjacking job, someone has to step into the gap… and the LSU folks rise to the bait without fail.
As for elapsed time since 2003, that is but a gnat’s fart of duration for holding a grudge. Anytime you see Scotland play a soccer game esp. versus England, there’s always at least one flag with “Bannockburn 1314″ on it – and it’s not just because that was the last decent win against the Sassenachs.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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tOSU_radar says:
#25 Steve: YES!!
May 7th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
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tzubear says:
‘there’s always at least one flag with “Bannockburn 1314″ on it – and it’s not just because that was the last decent win against the Sassenachs.’
Well, maybe it is because that was their last descent, oh I mean decent, win.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
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DC Trojan says:
maybe it is because that was their last descent, oh I mean decent, win.
Geographically or politically, both “descent” and “decent” hold true. Whether it’s your Norman aristocracy selling you out, or Thatcher selling off the playing fields after you tear down the goalposts at Wembley, or you end up supporting Trinidad and Tobago, because Rupert Murdoch sold Sky to the working class (thereby rendering somnolent the usual source of soccer talent)… it’s a sad state of affairs.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
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DevilGrad says:
Rebuild Hadrian’s wall!
May 7th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
Somewhere in this building there is one of those half-white (for signing) footballs with a logo done up for the 2003 Sugar Bowl as LSU vs. USC. It was a sample for the period leading up to the game.
I wonder how much I could get for it at auction.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
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Rex Cramer says:
#25 Steve –
Not sure why we’re still beating this horse. I’ll defer to DC Trojan in #19 since I can’t say it much better.
As for Auburn, not sure why they are even mentioned since they played for neither the BCS or AP title. They did earn the “peoples” MNC though. And they even have rings to prove it.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
Is that like a People’s Choice Award, or a Golden Globe?
May 7th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Is that like a People’s Choice Award, or a Golden Globe?
It’s like one of those “student of the month” awards at your local middle school which is award to anyone who can stand up when called upon.
For 2004 the trophy took the form of a bronzed half-roll of toilet paper from Toomer’s Corner.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
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DC Trojan says:
awarded, dammit.
Now I have to go and get my student of the month award.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
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Stacey Keibler Luvs Me says:
DC Trojan:
For or against Scotland seceding from the UK?
May 7th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
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Stacey Keibler Luvs Me says:
Old English Joke:
I used to work with an Englishman who said that if you ever went to an England-Scotland soccer match you would notice that the United Kingdom is not very “united”. (apologies for the screwing up of the past, present and future tenses…all in one sentence!)
May 7th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
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matt says:
given Ohio’s union-burden, rust-belt economy they probably need to keep these ugly fucking shirts
May 7th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
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kleph says:
At or around this time, Spud, Sick Boy, and I made a healthy, informed, democratic decision to get back on heroin as soon as possible.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
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socalirish says:
A shirt like that would never need to be marked down at Alabama. One way or the other they would claim another MNC.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
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Rusty says:
Ah, Trainspotting. I watched that film for class one day and decided that hard drugs were definitely bad news. Then I walked out of the building, turned right, and saw three 4x life size posters of Kate Moss in the Burberry store. Mmmmmm, delicious irony.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
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SunDawg says:
There’s a warehouse in Georgia with a shit-load of tees boasting Dawgs Beat Gators; all they need is a date. Not much of a money maker since they only get printed once every decade or so.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
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Papa Lou BSU says:
Re #26: Indeed, DCTrojan, on all counts. Perhaps the Internet wailing from some quarters has only made it *seem* like eight centuries, instead of three and a half years…
May 7th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
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matt says:
socal irish…might make interesting reading for you, exposes one of your teams bull-shits nc’s ( I’m not denying that Alabama doesn’t have theirs as well)
May 7th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
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matt says:
http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Ring-Alabama-Crimson-Footballs/dp/0312336837
May 7th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
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Kecalf Bailey says:
As far as t-shirts go, I can say that Auburn has it done right with their “Auburn Rags Ltd.” stuff. Obnoxious, but in good taste, generally.
Bama’s t-shirts are also made by that same “Smack talkin’ T’s” who made the one featured above and they are all beyond embarassing. The worst I can remember is “Got Shula?…..we do” and “Got twelve?…we do” shits that came out solid decade after the “Got Milk?” campaign had run its course. The damn things sold like hotcakes, or cooked crack.
On the topic of the 2003 NC, even prior to aAbans hiring I felt that LSU was the rightful champion. And I can barely stand LSU fans.
Just because the AP changed their mind and reneged on a deal with the BCS does not, in my mind legitimize them to name their own champion.
The BCS was in place to split hairs and decide who would play for the NC. USC got left out because they played a weaker schedule than the other two and lost to the worst team of the three. tough shit. Auburn in my mind has every bit as much of a claim to half the title in 2004 as USC in 2003.
Buth thats just, like, my opinion, man.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
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Southern Papa says:
Ah, yes. Perhaps one day we’ll finally be able to meet on the field, and throw in the half-titles from 2003 for good measure so the SC crowd will finally give up their whiny noises about being the 2003 NC.
As far as the English-Scottish lovefests; from my visits, when England plays Scotland it’s about as intense as SEC games, where the Scottish fans’ favorite teams are Scotland and whoever is playing England. Kind of like some folks favorites are LSU and whoever is playing Alabama.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
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DC Trojan says:
SKLM: Sentimentally for Scottish secession, but in reality the Scottish Nationalist’s dreams of being the next Ireland or Denmark are more likely to turn into being the next Macedonia… and it’s all predicated on the EU’s money, which seems like a exchanging one tax-teat for another.
Southern Papa: I’d be whining if I felt like I’d been deprived of something, but nonetheless I like your pink slip approach to resolving the bitch-fest. Settling a MNC on the field, what a curious idea.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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oc phil says:
The AP has been naming CFB champions since the 1930’s and there was never any deal for them to stop doing so. That USC won the AP title in 2003 in a fact. Split titles have been common in the history of college football. I only ever hear LSU fans whine about having to share a title.
Auburn didn’t win a legitimate national title in 2004, that’s also a fact. Deal with it crybabies.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
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crabs says:
re: #44 (or is it #45?)
http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Ring-Alabama-Crimson-Footballs/dp/0312336837
Jeez-oh-pete! Its bad enough that the ignorant rednecks of alabama already claim about twice as many MNC’s as they rightfully should.
Now some moron at the NYT, wants to write about how they were robbed of another one?
May 7th, 2007 at 4:40 pm