While in Sydney, Australia last week, I was perusing one of those markets with all of the cheap goods and I came across a place that sold jerseys. Mostly NFL and NBA, but there was a small rack of hockey ones. Amongst about 90% Crosby sweaters, I found this monstrosity:
The photo cannot do justice to the crappy feel of the material. Interesting take on the Horse jersey, but it looked and felt like a practice jersey at best. The red, yellow, and white looks nice together though IMO.
Then I flipped it over:
It was at this point that the owner of that market stall started giving me a little spiel: "Very expensive shirt. Very good player. Expensive in stores. Forty dollar."
So my wife snapped these shots for a laugh and we left the shirt there. It is probably still there if you know anyone in Sydney.
So I either a) walked away from a disgraceful mish-mash of leftover materials (they ran out of the letter "g" though), or b) a rare, Flames prototype of what the horse jersey might have been...
Interestingly, it wasn't my only encounter with the famous fire breathing horse on vacation. Earlier in our trip, in Christchurch, New Zealand, we came across a gig poster that looked oddly familiar:
Looks kind of like they took the left side of the horse's head, mirrored it, took away the flames, and just kind of smoothed it out a bit. Refer to "Icinla's" authentic jersey above to see the resemblance.
And inside the bag in my hand in the Icinla shot, ironically on-topic with this thread, are a couple of 100% authentic band shirts for Queen and The Strokes.
