{"product_id":"vintage-new-york-jets-temporary-tattoos-nostalgic-gift-treasures-gifts","title":"Vintage 1990s New York Jets Temporary Tattoos 🏈 NFL Fan Gift","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRemember New York Jets Temporary Tattoos? 🏈 New York Jets Temporary Tattoos, Team NFL Body Sport\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\" x 4 1\/2\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ojb3UGYbWHQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVintage 1990s New York Jets temporary tattoos! This is a Team NFL Body Sport pack with the Jets helmet right on the front: the green helmet with the white JETS wordmark streaking across the side and a gray facemask. Each pack says it contains 1 large and 1 small transfer. The front promises they apply in seconds, last for days, are easy to remove and are safe and non-toxic, and the side adds \"Realistic\" and \"Swim \u0026amp; shower with them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI love the directions on the back. Clean your skin, take off the protective sheet, press it on tacky side down, wet the back with a sponge or cloth, wait 30 seconds and slide the paper off. They say they last 3 to 5 days, and to get one off you rub it with alcohol, baby oil or adhesive tape. There is even a tip that for a more realistic look you should wash it lightly with soap and water. The ingredients are listed too: vinyl acetate P.V.A. co-polymer, D \u0026amp; C Yellow No. 5 Aluminum Lake, D \u0026amp; C Red No. 27, D \u0026amp; C Blue No. 1 Aluminum Lake and iron oxide. A temporary tattoo sold in the United States has to use color additives approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which is why every color is spelled out. MADE IN ENGLAND is printed at the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🛩️ Why the Helmet Looks Like This\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat green helmet dates the art. The Jets switched to green helmets and a modern JETS wordmark in 1978, added black trim in 1990, and went back to their classic white-helmet look in 1998. So this is the helmet Gang Green fans grew up with, through the whole Sack Exchange era and every one of those rough early 1990s seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe team started out in 1960 as the Titans of New York, playing in the old Polo Grounds for owner Harry Wismer, who explained the name by saying \"Titans are bigger and stronger than Giants.\" By 1962 he was broke, and in 1963 a five-man group led by Sonny Werblin bought the team for $1 million. Werblin renamed them the Jets because they would be playing near LaGuardia Airport, and because it rhymed with the Mets, who they would be sharing Shea Stadium with. Then he signed Joe Namath. Three days before Super Bowl III in January 1969, Namath stood up at the Miami Touchdown Club and personally guaranteed a win, and the Jets, 18-point underdogs, beat the Baltimore Colts 16 to 7 in one of the greatest upsets in sports.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1981 a fan named Dan O'Connor won a contest in the team magazine by naming the Jets' defensive line, Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons and Abdul Salaam, the New York Sack Exchange. The Jets played their last game at Shea on December 10, 1983, and while fans pulled the place apart for souvenirs, the scoreboard read \"N.J. Jets.\" From 1984 on they played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Giants would not let anybody change the name. The 1990s were tough. Pete Carroll went 6 and 10 in 1994, and when owner Leon Hess, of the Hess gas stations, hired Rich Kotite for 1995, he told the press, \"I'm 80 years old, I want results now.\" Kotite went 4 and 28 over two years. In 1997 Hess brought in Bill Parcells, who had the Jets in the AFC Championship Game after the 1998 season, the same year this green helmet was retired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🏷️ Team NFL\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeam NFL is printed across the top of the pack next to the league shield. NFL Properties, the league's licensing arm, was founded in 1963 to keep control of the league's and the teams' brands and to license official merchandise, and in the early 1990s it went after kids in a big way. It even made up a Team NFL Heroes mascot for every team, on stuffed dolls, school supplies and t-shirts. Most of those mascots only lasted a season or two, though a few, like Pat Patriot and the Broncos' Miles, were adopted by their teams. A pack of stick-on tattoos was the easy way for a kid to wear the helmet to the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🎁 A Fun Gift for a Jets Fan\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for a Jets fan's birthday, a tailgate or a stocking stuffer, or pin the pack up on the wall of the man cave next to the rest of your Jets stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1997-nfl-fingernail-tattoos-dallas-cowboys-its-football-season\"\u003eVintage 1997 NFL Fingernail Tattoos Dallas Cowboys 🏈 It's Football Season!!!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1992-cincinnati-reds-temporary-tattoos-mlb-collectors-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1992 MLB Cincinatti Reds Temporary Tattoos ⚾ Mr. Red Fan Memorabilia!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1997-nfl-fingernail-tattoos-minnesota-vikings-its-football-season\"\u003eVintage 1997 Minnesota Vikings NFL Fingernail Tattoos 🏈 Sealed Sheet Superbowl Football Fan Gift NFL Properties Licensed Novelty\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44688860414184,"sku":"VAG-8302686535912","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.5231741691_p4it.jpg?v=1785440080","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-new-york-jets-temporary-tattoos-nostalgic-gift-treasures-gifts","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}