FC Mountain People, blue L (22.5"P2P, 27"S2H, 31"C2C)

In 1976 NBC ran a televised quiz called America: 200 years of stuff. The winner (he won on a tie-breaker the answer was Burt Reynolds) was Lewis Medlock from a small town in the Kentuckian hills called Burnside (pop: 3,251). He won $20,000. Lewis was football mad. He had always dreamed of having a team that would put the Appalachians on the football map.

Lewis needed more money. Luckily his best friend was Bobby Trippe who owned Talk of the Town the biggest chain of amusement arcades across the region. Bobby saw something in the project and promised to help fund the team if Talk of the Town were the sponsor and as long as the kit had a massive badge. Bobby loved big badges.

Through blood, sweat and tears Lewis created FC Mountain People and started to recruit a team in preparation for the 76/77 season of the Blue Ridge inter state season. It was tough. Players had to travel long distances, other teams were often across different states. It was a logistical nightmare. Players came and went. After months of hard slog FC Mountain People were ready.

There was one big problem Lewis had not accounted for - the actual day of the fixtures. The Blue Ridge inter state played their matches on a Sunday and not a Saturday. This area of Kentucky was Christian fundamentalist territory. A powerful local preacher Pastor Gentry used his sermons to vigorously condemn the team and led a ban of FC Mountain People. Quite a few of the squad were pressured into leaving and spectators stayed away.

FC Mountain People struggled big time and after a 7-0 thrashing by Pikeville Pirates that would relegate them Lewis acknowledged it had been a massive shambles. He walked away his dream in shatters. He had lost his $20,000. FC Mountain People folded after one season. However Bobby Trippe had the bug, he moved the team down the road to Mount Sterling where the church was less influential and created Mountain People AFC who achieved the dream and did change the face of football in that part of Appalachian Kentucky playing a very easy on the eye counter attacking style.

Hand screen printed on a blue preloved vintage sweat with silver eco ink.

Each sweat is a one off (just like you) and a different size, so please check the measurements below before ordering.

Approx size L
Pit to pit - 22.5"
Shoulder to bottom of hem - 27"
Edge of collar to end of cuff - 31"

Because our sweats are vintage and preloved they may show signs of wear e.g bobbles/small marks. We have tried our best to highlight anything obvious in the photos.

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