Sports Memorabilia

[Cpt Kumera]

@bovidae cool programme

[Yeetyaah]

Posted my 97-99 Highlanders jersey on Instagram.

[Kiwiwomble]

@yeetyaah thats sick, what size is it?

[Yeetyaah]

@kiwiwomble it's a medium.

[Kiwiwomble]

@yeetyaah said in Sports Memorabilia:

@kiwiwomble it's a medium.

jeez, 90's jerseys proportions are all crazy compared to today, very jealous, i was a fatty in the 90's so my old jerseys are large and so huge, almost an off the shoulder number

[Yeetyaah]

@kiwiwomble ha yeah this one surprisingly only fits a little bigger than a standard medium.

[Yeetyaah]

@bovidae said in Sports Memorabilia:

@yeetyaah said in Sports Memorabilia:

@bovidae yeah mate, 2005/06, 2016/17 and 2018/19 are match worn.

If you know, whose jerseys do you think they are?

There are also the training jerseys to collect.

This Chiefs jersey must have been from 1996/97 based on who is in the photo.

Hey mate where is this photo from? I've just acquired one of these jerseys and I can't find any photos of theses ones being worn. If there's more photos can you post them?

[Bovidae]

@yeetyaah It's from a photo montage in the 2016 Chiefs-Wales match programme celebrating 20 years of the Chiefs.

[Yeetyaah]

@bovidae Ah good stuff I've actually got that at home. Cheers.

[Yeetyaah]

Surely enough, I got one. Also I hope posting this here is okay as it's kinda self promo type thing.

[Yeetyaah]

Also can anyone help me with a year for this tie? Partners parents have been digging though her granddads stuff after he unfortunately passed last month and found this.

[Bovidae]

@yeetyaah Contact the WRU or the Waikato Rugby Supporters club. There must be someone there who can help you.

[Cpt Kumera]

Cool tie

[Bovidae]

I assume that these short stories have appeared on Breakdown in recent weeks, but I have watched a few on YouTube. The jerseys that Liam Messam shows are really cool because they are mostly commemorative jerseys.

[antipodean]

@Bovidae that's a good find, thanks for that.

[gt12]

@Bovidae

That story about the seven's dream team was funny. Had to love him taking a shot at KT too.

[Victor Meldrew]

@mikedogz

Yeah, I know I'm replying to a 3 years old post.... but ''77 Lions in NZ?

Phil Orr, Peter Wheeler, Terry Cobner, Willie Duggan, Elgan Rees, Trevor Evans, Peter Squires, Tony Neary...

[mikedogz]

Ajaz Patel is selling his Test Shirt he wore, for charity.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/antiques-collectables/other/listing/3579368359?fbclid=IwAR06DXMK3uc1Rg-1zXpUFskgqtBX6RVxFVqb5ecwxzZBoKtXahsCfiewAhc

Stuff

[dogmeat]

@mikedogz What a fucking legend

I liked this Condition: New

[Kid Chocolate]

Just browsing eBay and came across this unused ticket from the Willard-Dempsey world heavyweight championship fight of July 4th, 1919 in Toledo; wherein the hulking heavily favoured 6/5 champ Jess Willard got savaged by the much smaller challenger Jack Dempsey. You can see right on the stub what each fighter was making: $100K for Willard and a comparatively paltry $27.5K for Dempsey.

What is most eye-popping for me is the cost of the ticket. $60 dollars in 1919 was more than a month salary for the average worker, and these aren’t for front row ringside, this is for the section!

BoxRec informs me that, “There was a crowd of 19,500, which was less than a quarter of the arena's seating capacity. Promoter Tex Rickard said all the $60 ringside seats were sold and most of the $50 seats were sold, but the disappointment came from the sell of the cheapest tickets, which sold for $10. Provisions had been made to seat between 35,000 and 40,000 in the $10 seat section, but only about 5,000 seats were sold.”

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Jess_Willard_vs._Jack_Dempsey

And check out the highlights from the three rounds before the towel is thrown in. No going to your corner or standing 8-counts back in those days. Dempsey smashes Willard in the face each time he tries to gets off the canvas onto his feet.

Brutal!