
Cross Check T-Shirt ($32.00)
I pretty much love everything that New York City has to offer. The food, the ladies, the jobs, the education (CUNY Hunter what up?), and even the never vanishing tourists. One thing I absolutely loathe? The New York Rangers. Founded as one the original hockey franchises in the early days of the NHL the team would go on to capture the Stanley Cup 3 times in the next 12 years.
What followed was 54 years of misery with nothing to really cheer about trophy wise before half of the Edmonton Oilers were traded to New York and would see the Rangers end their “curse” in 1994. Since then it’s been nothing but big money contracts to stars past or nearing the end of their prime. While some of the sports best such as Gretzky, Bure, and Jagr donned the Rangers sweater they have yet to lift the cup again.
Anyway, we here at Мишка are pretty heavy on taking sports logos and designs and Мишка’ing the life out of them. Holiday 2011 is no different. The Rangers have had the same uniform design (and we’ll admit that it’s a great one) way before any of us were born and it has been forever immortalized with the sport since the team really loves to live in the past and never really changes anything outside of free agent flops. Even MSG still sucks (that’s right).
For the shirt we’ve taken the team’s famous diagonal front sweater design and replaced “Rangers” with “Destroy,” and put “Мишка” o the nameplate above no. 78 and even flipped the vintage NHL logo to read “CCCP” (you know what this is right? you dang scenesters!) What’s extra neat is the material for the numbers and letters is the same you would find on a legit hockey shirt. The kind with varying high-density plastisol to mimic a real jersey’s meshing.
I actually had a hand in this since I had one of those legit hockey shirts with the same material to let MJ sample. I assume this means I get all 3 colorways free of charge seeing how I saved the day and what not. Right guys?! Speaking of colorways this shirt comes in the traditional Ranger blue, the away Ranger white and red on black (because I’m a Devils fan and cried upon seeing Мишка do such a thing).
So show your love for your favorite brand with your least favorite team and help Destroy the Rangers. Boom. Roasted. Or if you’re a fan root for them to Destroy I guess…
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