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The Detroit Red Wings are an American ice hockey team whose colors are red and white. The Detroit Red Wings memorabilia is well- known and recognized even amid those who are not hockey enthusiasts. In the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cameron is seen wearing a Red Wings jersey throughout the film.

This item is manufactured with a ‘union bug’ label on the back. This mark represents the International Allied Printing Trades Council label marking the item as union made.

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In 1996, Michael Jordan and Dennis Rodman led the Chicago Bull to win the historic championship at home. They defeated the Seattle SuperSonics in the finals, winning their 4th NBA title in six seasons. The button was created by the Chicago Sun-Times, along with a poster, to promote and commemorate the team in 1997. 

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“Go Bulldogs” is a traditional cheer heard during Yale University intercollegiate athletic team games—notably the university’s football team—where the Yale mascot is “Handsome Dan,” a real and very much alive bulldog. Yale has had a long line of living bulldog mascots over the years, one of the first coming along with the class of 1889, when alumnus Andrew Graves brought the namesake “Handsome Dan” to Yale. The very first bulldog, according to Chief Research Archivist at the Yale University Library Judith Ann Schiff (1937-2022), was an earlier dog named Harper.

Yale students are affectionately nicknamed “Elis” after Elihu Yale, the university’s founder of the early 1700s. At games, one can hear students chanting one of the school’s fight songs—“Bulldog,” written by fellow alumnus Cole Porter—which goes: “Bulldog! Bulldog! Bow, wow, wow. Eli Yale! Bulldog! Bulldog! Bow, wow, wow. Our team can never fail!”

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Falcon High School was founded in Falcon, Colorado, in 1900. It was the only school in the district until 1997. The school moved to Peyton to occupy an eco-friendly, technology-enhanced building in 2007 with a turf field. This school is most identifiable by its strong football program represented by a forest green uniform which was strengthened by the school’s location change.

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The rounded oval shape of the depicted football contrasts the pointed tips of contemporary footballs. Early footballs were inflated animal bladders placed inside leather covers and they had a rounded form based on the anatomical structure of the animal bladders. The shape of a contemporary football is a prolate spheroid.

Franklin is a sporting goods manufacturer founded in 1946 by brothers Irving H. Franklin and Sydney Franklin whose grandfather had been in the scrap leather business. Franklin took off in the 1980s with their professional-grade leather baseball batting gloves but have since expanded their business to the production of footballs and many other sporting accessories. Though Wilson sporting goods is the official manufacturer of the National Football League football, Franklin does have a partnership with the NFL to produce branded NFL gear for a casual consumer audience.

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This button is a promotional item for the San Francisco Fog, a professional soccer team that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) for just one season, 1980-1981. The owner of the Detroit Lightning had moved his team to San Francisco in 1980, renaming them the Fog. The team played in the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, just south of San Francisco. After the 1980-1981 season, the team was moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where it became the Comets. The MISL existed from 1978-1992.

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Dwayne Murphy played for the Oakland Athletics from 1978-1987. Drafted right out of high school, he played in the minor league for 5 years before being called up to the Athletics in 1978. He won 6 straight Golden Glove awards between 1980 and 1985. Regarded as one of the best outfielders in the league, the awards he won reflected his talents. Murphy was known for his trademark move of losing his hat during virtually any play from routine caches to deep dives. Retiring from play, his last Major League Baseball game was with the Philadelphia Phillies on October 1st, 1989. Coming out of retirement, Murphy coached from 1998-2013 before retiring once more. He was hitting coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks during their 2001 World Series win.

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Villanova Wildcats is the name of the athletic teams from the university of the same name, located in Villanova, PA. Their men’s basketball team has been around since 1920 and competes in the Big East Conference along with their other athletic teams.