My Basement Foul Pole I already featured my basement goal posts that I have down in my Sports Lair, but when I painted the poles for goalposts I also had the idea to paint the third pole in the room yellow to make a foul
How To remove Old Decals If you acquire a used helmet to refurbish from a high school or somewhere else, chances are that the helmet will have decals on it. Now, you can’t paint over decals, although they did for the Pro Bowl in the
How To Paint A Metallic Silver Helmet One of the more common paint colors for a helmet is silver. There have been a bunch of teams that have had silver helmets over the years . The Raiders, Seahawks, Cowboys, Lions and Panthers all have silver
A Sabres Logo Quirk When looking around at old sports photos, specifically hockey, I always came across Sabres pictures where the jersey crest featured a very odd looking bison. I found that it came around in the late 70s and just vanished. The odd thing
Ode To The Whale One of the best logo in the history of sports has to be the Hartford Whalers logo. Designed by Peter Good. The Whalers started as the New England whalers in 1972, playing their games in Boston. They would later move to
It Finally arrived! The other day I talked about my second chance at the Buccaneers jacket and today the package arrived in the mail. It came in a box that was smaller than I would have thought. Just looked how they stuffed this thing in
I Will Never Miss Another My obsession with football started back in 1986. I was seven years old and I had just moved a mile away from Rich Stadium. There is evidence that I liked football before this, but there is something about being able
How About A little Lead With Your Beverage? Years ago Gas Stations would give away premium items with their Gas. This went all the way back to the 60s and 70s, with many stations giving away all sorts of things, like toy Noah’s Ark, stuffed
I was a somewhat avid card collector in my youth. I mostly just liked having my favorite players and teams. I would soort all my cards by team and keep them in my books. As a teenager, with a little change in my pocket, I
Knit Cap Addict A few weeks ago I wrote a tutorial on how to customize your own retro style knit cap. Well, I will admit, I didn’t make one out of pure necessity. I have a problem when it comes to knit caps, beanies, toques