1994 Houston Aeros Tee

1994 Houston Aeros TeeThe Story The Houston Aeros were formed as an IHL expansion team in 1994 by Chuck Watson, CEO of Houston energy trading firm Dynegy. The Aeros were a brand revival of the popular World Hockey Association club of the 1970s, who famously featured ageless Hall of Famer Gordie Howe and his sons Mark and Marty. The Aeros won their first and only Turner Cup championship of the IHL in the spring of 1999. After posting a league best record of 54 15 13 in the

the team played eleven games in the air conditioned Omni Coliseum from June to August

New Jersey and a few others neighboring states

75 million contract was a record at the time

We sourced this vintage Army mule graphic from a 1940's-era pennant

This vintage Handsome Dan logo from the 1960s is occasionally worn as shoulder patches by the current Yale hockey teams

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers played at Lockhart Stadium from 1977 to 1983 before eventually folding in 1983

Reminiscent of team-issued practice shirts of the 1990s

a new bargain-basement box lacrosse outfit in which the regular season is meaningless: All four franchises made the playoffs

The team lost to the Anaheim Bullfrogs by a score of 9–5 in the second game of the 1997 RHI Murphy Cup finals held at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford

1967 to form the North American Soccer League (NASL)

The owner of the local hockey shop and mentor to Gordon Bombay

sitting in fifth place and with the Chiefs' future uncertain due to the closing of the mill in Charlestown