That’s Ad-Tastic, Vol. 2

Without a doubt, the Blue Jays player in the Toronto tourism ad is Ernie Whitt. He wore #12 with the Jays. Batted left. Very distinctive swing.

I still have some of those Hostess cards. I think the ones I have range from about 1975-1978.

Argh! Bryant, you beat me by one minute! That was an easy call with Ernie Whitt.

I found these from a quick “banana sticker” search:
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K-State used to wear lavender jerseys and purple shorts. That’s probably what that pic is. They wore them as a throwback a few years ago. Can you say laughingstock?

Oh, and on the same site:
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“Is the guy in foreground wearing a mask or a helmet or what?”

he looks like the driver checking out his ride before he jumps in. probably a helmet and fire thingy over his face

There is the MLB logo at the top of that Bud/Bud Light All Star ad and is mentioned in the first paragraph.

here’s the kstate throwbacks:
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and the real things:
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and apparently another style of throwback:
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i don’t know if they wore them all the way back to ’75, but the SI cover is from ’81, so its certainly plausible.

Did anyone else notice the CB helmet logo in the David Boss Browns v. Cardinals painting?

Paul, not sure, but the Black and Silver striping on the CFL uni may be faded in the ad copy Navy Blue and Columbia Blue, which would make it a natural as a generic Argos style uniform.

[quote comment=”374096″]Paul, not sure, but the Black and Silver striping on the CFL uni may be faded in the ad copy Navy Blue and Columbia Blue, which would make it a natural as a generic Argos style uniform.[/quote]

I agree.

Fun fact: Glenn Wilson once threw Ernie Whitt out at first base.

From right field.

the knot in the back of the jersey is pre spandex type jerseys that players wear now. Was used to make it tighter.

Paul, none of the links in the main article are workign for me, but it might just be the firewall here at the office.

Also, can someone post the stadium list for MLB 10?

[quote comment=”374100″]can someone post the stadium list for MLB 10?[/quote]

(shown, don’t know if complete):

polo grounds, crosley field, forbes field, griffith stadium, shibe park & sportsman’s park

they’ve been using classic stadiums in video games for years. i remember them having them in the last game i bought, which has probably been 5 years or more. and they were the exact same stadiums, too. their good idea kind of lost steam.

I have some of the Hostess cards — about a dozen I think. Also have a few from Kellogg’s cereal – some sort of 3d card.

[quote comment=”374101″][quote comment=”374100″]can someone post the stadium list for MLB 10?[/quote]

(shown, don’t know if complete):

polo grounds, crosley field, forbes field, griffith stadium, shibe park & sportsman’s park[/quote]

Thanks, Phil! *sigh* One of these years, the Astrodome, or Colts Stadium will be added…

My good pal Pete Morelewicz used to operate a Squished Penny Museum out of is Washington DC home. It’s been closed for a couple years now, but the archived site is link Pete is definitely dedicated to his cause…to the extent that he lost half of one of his fingers to a manual penny squishing machine. OUCH!

[quote comment=”374096″]Paul, not sure, but the Black and Silver striping on the CFL uni may be faded in the ad copy Navy Blue and Columbia Blue, which would make it a natural as a generic Argos style uniform.[/quote]

Actually, that is an Argos uni. Pretty much what they wore before, during and after Joe Theismann’s time with the team. Late ’60s into ’70s.

I could be WAY wrong, but #75 might be Mel Profit, the CFL equivalent of a TE. Or maybe Profit was done by then. As I said, not sure, just a vague recollection of some photos of mine.

—Ricko

ok so i’ve been out of town for 3 days, so I may have missed the boat, but has there been any update on Skeebz’ Giant Balls? Last I heard, he had sent them to Paul.

I have a bunch of the Hostess cards around here. I also have a few of those Kellogg 3-D cards as well.

Oh yeah, I had (and still have) the Twinkie baseball cards. I remember talking my grandmother into buying the product just so that I could get the cards. She was easier to talk into such things than my mom.

Heard on radio this a.m. that tickets aren’t selling big for the Super Bowl. Apparently “South Florida” has never been a great venue for ticket sales. They quoted some ticket expert (whatever the hell that is) as saying that by game time you could possibly be able to buy them for as little as $20 outside the stadium.

Interesting, considering the high-end tickets are going for as much as $7,000.

—Ricko

Ooohhhh flattened pennies! That reminds me that I desperately need to order a couple books for all the strays littering my nightstand drawer.

The Japanese Speed Skating uniforms from 1992 just moved to this page.
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Theismann in road version of that Argos uni…
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(scroll down a bit for small shot of homes)

—Ricko

[quote comment=”374106″]
I could be WAY wrong, but #75 might be Mel Profit, the CFL equivalent of a TE. Or maybe Profit was done by then. As I said, not sure, just a vague recollection of some photos of mine.
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Profit wore #75 and that face looks like a reasonable facsimile of his. He became a minor celebrity in Canada so it would not be a shock if CBC used him in a national ad. I don’t recognize anyone else in the ad, though the boxer could be a guy named Clyde Gray.

Interesting that CBC used to promote sports. Nowadays here there is ongoing debate over whether they should cover any sports at all. They do far less than they used to, but there are those who think they should be more of a PBS-like network and focus on cultural/educational stuff exclusively.

And, being fully obsessive…

“Mel Profit (born July 30, 1941 in New York, New York) was a football player in the CFL for six years. He was selected originally by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1963 NFL Draft. He starred as a tight end for the Toronto Argonauts.

“Mel authored a book entitled “For Love, Money and Future Considerations” which gave a player’s view of the CFL. The book chronicled the 1971 season in which the Toronto Argonauts played in the Grey Cup, losing to the Calgary Stampeders.”

(from Wiki)

—Ricko

Nevermind the gridder in the CBC ad. Stripping is a sport in Canada? I need to start watching the CBC.

[quote comment]Bryan Moore has envisioned the Carolina Hurricanes using Hartford Whalers colors.
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Reminds me of this photoshop I did when the ‘Canes won the Stanley cup: link

Paul,

I’ll have to go dig around in my garage, but if I can find my Chiquita Winter Olympics stickers, they’re all yours.

The MLB.com sign on the outfield wall at Griffith Stadium is a nice bit of verisimilitude.

[quote comment=”374107″]ok so i’ve been out of town for 3 days, so I may have missed the boat, but has there been any update on Skeebz’ Giant Balls? Last I heard, he had sent them to Paul.[/quote]

The balls arrived at my place while I was in Minnesota. I’ll be conducting a giveaway of the balls, and also of that Jaguars jersey box, in the next week or two.

who cares about t-shirts and dvd’s???? Where the contest to giveaway the NFL gameballs…hahaha

[quote comment=”374119″]Paul,

I’ll have to go dig around in my garage, but if I can find my Chiquita Winter Olympics stickers, they’re all yours.[/quote]

Thanks!

I like Nate’s idea for a NYC or NYK jersey. I don’t know about Orange though…maybe they can pull it off..;The knicks could use an alt.

also, I personally don’t like the Knicks current jerseys (I prefer the Ewing Jerseys without the black on the side, although i like the black trim on the collar)

K-State wore those “lavender lovelies” when I was a student there. While I was no fan, they were distinctive and certainly no laughing stock. Jack Hartman’s ‘Cats were awesome back then. link Should the purple ban be lifted, that’s my style, regardless of how I felt back then. Mike Evans, Chuckie Williams, Ro Blackman, Larry Dassie, yes those were the days.

According to lore, Hartman asked a Salina sporting goods supplier to gussy up K=State’s road duds. He did and this was the result. In the baggy style of this era, they don’t translate well as a throwback.

Lon Kruger wore them when he was a player, including purple suede Converses. But when he came back as the coach, he ditched the look and went for a good solid purple look.

[quote comment=”374120″]The MLB.com sign on the outfield wall at Griffith Stadium is a nice bit of verisimilitude.[/quote]

nice catch, kenn

also love the anachronistic majestic ad, the updated state farm billboard, and jerry dior’s MLB logo…those things are so ingrained that i didn’t even realize they were there at first

[quote comment=”374121″][quote comment=”374107″]ok so i’ve been out of town for 3 days, so I may have missed the boat, but has there been any update on Skeebz’ Giant Balls? Last I heard, he had sent them to Paul.[/quote]

The balls arrived at my place while I was in Minnesota. I’ll be conducting a giveaway of the balls, and also of that Jaguars jersey box, in the next week or two.[/quote]

Just remember, I called firstys!! j/k j/k
I know how much you loves the first posts :-)

Thanks Paul and Joe. Oh and I supposed Phil as well.

[quote comment=”374124″]The knicks could use an alt.[/quote]

NO!

and besides, they have one and (granted, st. patty’s day, xmas) it’s awful

I’m bummed the balls will be raffled…. I never win anything!!!! :)

Hostess baseball cards cam 3 to a pack (box) and you had to cut them away from the bottom of the box once you finished the ‘goodies’. ugh. I could never cut in a straight line so the cards were faulty from the get go–for me at least. Dave Cash, 2B, Phillies/Expos is my sole survivor from that series.

The douchebag in the Burlesconi mask (not Silvio himself–another reknown D-bag) is none other that Marco Materazzi, the shithead that provoked Zizou’s(by insulting his Mother and sister) headbutt during the World cup final of ’06.

A class act.

Re: Izzo on MSU logo – I think he makes a good point. I don’t like the tweak to the logo (but only the fact that the crest is simplified, the other changes I’m indifferent to), but Izzo makes a good point that there really is no logo tradition. I’m worried about any change to the color, but I definitely will reserve judgment until the full unveiling in April.

And I don’t just drink the Izzo Kool Aid because I’m an MSU alum and fellow yooper (where apparently we don’t learn big words).

[quote comment=”374099″]the knot in the back of the jersey is pre spandex type jerseys that players wear now. Was used to make it tighter.[/quote]

right… but it ‘s a practice more associated with high school and collegiate football. correct me if i’m wrong, but it’s unusual to see it in the pros– at least as late as ’93.

That Tigers hat, if I’m not mistaken, was made from some sort of synthetic, it was a kind of foam, though a bit thinner, similar to the front panel on a ‘trucker hat’. I either had a card or old Sports Illustrated with (I’m pretty sure), Tom Seaver wearing a Reds hat made of the same material– though I’m fuzzy on the player, I remember thinking how unusual the hat was, clearly different fabric than any of the cotton or wool baseball hats I’d ever seen. My brother came home with one, and I thought it the coolest thing because it was soft and squishy (I was at most 8 or 9), no matter what you did to it, you couldn’t make it lose its shape, and it was basically waterproof and dirt-proof. You could pour water over it and it wouldn’t absorb any, and rub it in the dirt and none would stick. In any event, it also had a kind of sheen to it in a certain kind of light that I think would turn up in a B&W photo. My brother left the hat behind when he went to college, I wore it until the little plastic snaps in back had all fallen off (his was adjustable), but it did, over time, start to get dirty– not dirty like a normal hat, but dirty in a weird all over kind of way. I don’t know if MLB was experimenting with different hat materials at the time, or if the material was ever ‘official,’ but it was a really strange material, and around enough that Tom Seaver was photographed in one and you could buy hats in that material.

no offense to ksu on those unis, or at least the teams that wore them. those were some very good teams. but in regards to just the uniforms, i can’t think of many – in my opinion – that are worse.

Somewhat related to advertising, I found this link about the original products of some well-known companies. Ben&Jerry’s Bagels, anyone? Some of the product mock-ups are well done.

If you didn’t know who Nick Pietrosante was then you must not have ever read George Plimpton’s classic Paper Lion, which I imagine you would enjoy a lot.

An interesting note about Ernie Whitt, the Blue Jays player in the ad: He was the last standing “original” Jay. Was a part of the original expansion franchise in ’76, and was still catching and slugging (well, 11HR) for them in 1989. And, despite his American roots, he obviously has enough love for the maple leaf that he became head coach of Canada’s baseball team (Olympic, WBC, etc.), a position he still holds.

[quote comment=”374134″]Somewhat related to advertising, I found this link about the original products of some well-known companies. Ben&Jerry’s Bagels, anyone? Some of the product mock-ups are well done.[/quote]

ugh, i hate articles that are set up like this one, simply to try to make you click 17 times to get all the information. f*kn stupd! (yes I understand ad revenue)

/rant over

I remember the Hostess 3 card boxes quite well. I also remember the single packs of Twinkies, Suzy-Q’s, etc. also having a single card as their cardboard support in the cellophane. Too bad my bonehead cousin drew clown faces all over the likes of Graig Nettles and such.

The Chiquita Winter Olympic stickers were to be placed on the white vinyl vest worn by the raccoon mascot doll shown in the ad. At least that’s where I put mine.

Many of those Dave Boss posters graced my walls as a kid. Wonderful.

Here’s a depressing lead to a story that appeared in the January 24 Washington Post Magazine:

It is late afternoon on a Friday in September, and Kevin Plank is standing on the edge of the Auburn University football team’s practice field, surrounded by top executives from Under Armour, the sports clothing and footwear company he invented.

While the players drill in near silence for the next day’s game against Mississippi State, all their mental and physical energy bent toward winning, Plank watches them intently. The Under Armour chairman is in his element when he is close to football, the game he worships and the profession that defines his business.
Dressed in brown slacks and a white Under Armour shirt, Plank feverishly pounds away on his cellphone, sending text messages and photos from the practice field back to headquarters in Baltimore. He has spotted a big problem with the Auburn team’s practice shorts: The UA logo is at the top by the hip, obscured by the oversized shirts the players wear untucked.

“You can NOT see any logo — I would move it to the bottom in the future!” he types. Then: “Let’s get out to see this stuff!”

Not nearly so cool as the Pond Hockey Championships, but there’ s a bunch of us here in central VA who play an outdoor inline hockey tourney every January. We call it the Ginger Classic (in honor of our carrot-topped organizer), and you can see link

Lotsa cool jerseys to check out…also, my pal Greg, who insists on wearing his shoulder pads on the outside for some reason, and might be the worst-dressed player in the history of any sport.

Ugh, I remember those K-State unis as a high school kid. That gold bike is bad ass. Weather in Minneapolis is back to normal. Thanks for bringing the warm weather with you guys even though pond hockey was rained out.

[quote comment=”374131″][quote comment=”374099″]the knot in the back of the jersey is pre spandex type jerseys that players wear now. Was used to make it tighter.[/quote]

right… but it ‘s a practice more associated with high school and collegiate football. correct me if i’m wrong, but it’s unusual to see it in the pros– at least as late as ’93.[/quote]
1991, actually. But same difference.

I do not remember Dante Jones wearing his jersey that way at all.

I do remember that I was actually at that game. It was the NFC wild card game. Bears lost.

Also, it was one of the first dates my now wife and I ever went on. In fact, in addition to that game, the first two weeks we went out we went to: Bulls/Celtics (win), Blackhawks/Jets (tie) and Bulls/Nets (win). Do I know how to show a girl a good time or what?

We have not bee to a sporting event together since then.

(kidding about that last part)

some nice older pics from past winter olympics on SI today
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Wow, I’m loving Bryan’s “Carolina Canes-in-Hartford Whalers-colors” tweak! Especially the white shoulders on the dark jersey.

Excellent political cartoon from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, showing a swooshified George Washington.
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I’m lovin’ those Pond Hockey jerseys too! The Marines team is close to being a Philadelphia/Vancouver Blazers (WHA) color scheme.

I really like the Pond Scum colors of green on ivory with those two thick waist stripes, a shame they couldn’t come up with a decent logo or lettering!! The numbers are great though!

The Lumberjacks should have at least put numbers on the back of their flannels!

-Jet

[quote comment=”374149″]I’m lovin’ those Pond Hockey jerseys too! The Marines team is close to being a Philadelphia/Vancouver Blazers (WHA) color scheme.

I really like the Pond Scum colors of green on ivory with those two thick waist stripes, a shame they couldn’t come up with a decent logo or lettering!! The numbers are great though!

The Lumberjacks should have at least put numbers on the back of their flannels!

-Jet[/quote]

wait till you see paul’s pics/video of the guys in the gray herringbone blazers (forget the team name)…now THAT was a uni!

[quote comment=”374149″]I’m lovin’ those Pond Hockey jerseys too! The Marines team is close to being a Philadelphia/Vancouver Blazers (WHA) color scheme.

I really like the Pond Scum colors of green on ivory with those two thick waist stripes, a shame they couldn’t come up with a decent logo or lettering!! The numbers are great though!

The Lumberjacks should have at least put numbers on the back of their flannels!

-Jet[/quote]

Marines did look very much like the Blazers, though they of course were red and athletic gold, Marine colors. Blazers were orange and athletic gold.

Either way, was a great look, and did make me think of the Philadelphia Blazers. Vancouver version added a little BFBS, mostly in the form of black breezers.

Had same reaction to Pond Scum’s jerseys. Everything but the logo was A+ for such an event.

The Minnetonka tournament, btw, is resuming Wednesday & Saturday (doubt many teams stayed in town, though). No word on when or if play at Nokomis will resume.

—Ricko

[quote comment=”374150″][quote comment=”374149″]I’m lovin’ those Pond Hockey jerseys too! The Marines team is close to being a Philadelphia/Vancouver Blazers (WHA) color scheme.

I really like the Pond Scum colors of green on ivory with those two thick waist stripes, a shame they couldn’t come up with a decent logo or lettering!! The numbers are great though!

The Lumberjacks should have at least put numbers on the back of their flannels!

-Jet[/quote]

wait till you see paul’s pics/video of the guys in the gray herringbone blazers (forget the team name)…now THAT was a uni![/quote]

Had “Academic” in their team name, I think. And they were from Colorado.

—Ricko

[quote comment=”374149″]I’m lovin’ those Pond Hockey jerseys too! The Marines team is close to being a Philadelphia/Vancouver Blazers (WHA) color scheme.

I really like the Pond Scum colors of green on ivory with those two thick waist stripes, a shame they couldn’t come up with a decent logo or lettering!! The numbers are great though!

The Lumberjacks should have at least put numbers on the back of their flannels!

-Jet[/quote]

There’s something Baseball fury-ish about the Lumberjacks. link

For what its worth, that Blue Jays ad is from 1985, which is not quite “when the Blue Jays were born.

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