Help Us Find Places to Watch Footy

We are looking for several of these, in exotic locales
With Memorial Day almost here, it turns out that most of us will be traveling across North America this upcoming week. Wave hello if you see us on the road or at the airport. That also means that we need your help finding places to watch football. Anyone have any suggestions for the following?

- Minneapolis for the Sunday EPL matches (Precious Roy)
- Montreal for the Sunday EPL matches (Spectator)
- Lake George, NY for the CL final (Bigus)
- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for the CL final (The Fan's Attic)

Before you make fun of Precious Roy for his not-so-exotic destination, he's attending a wedding. But please do make jokes about swine flu at the expense of one the Fan's Attic.

Also, please be extra nice to Lingering Bursitis this weekend because he's the only one who's staying home. Although he says that he might go visit his nan in Cleethorpes.

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The Good, The Bad, The WTF

I have to admit, I am at a loss. Usually I can come across these shirts and, within a couple of minutes of googling, know who they belong to. Not this time, though. Instead I have a pretty bad shirt with no idea who it belongs to. So I need your help. Tell me which team sported this beauty shirt.


Yowza. How's that for a design? It looks like someone sponge-painted the bathroom, then leaned against the wet wall with this shirt. Plus, as an added bonus, there are some fossils on the bottom right of the shirt. I can't really tell what they are, but they're interesting to look at nonetheless. The real fun of this shirt, though, comes when viewed from a second angle.


What in the hell? All of a sudden, with a different angle from the light, this shirt turns into snakeskin. Turn this shirt into a pair of Bon Jovi boots (Wanted Dead or Alive era), STAT! I am confused and intrigued by this early-90s era Puma innovation. Why didn't this take off with other teams? As we've seen before, sublimation was all the rage, why not sublimate being a rattler?

Back to the request. The page I got this from lists this as being the 1990-91 shirt for something called BNZ Swarovski Innsbruck. Unfortunately, when you search "BNZ Swarovski Innsbruck", the only site that comes up is the one linked above (and, eventually, this page I'm sure). A wider search shows that a team called FC Swarovski Tirol once existed in Innsbruck. That team became FC Tirol Innsbruck (a team which has since folded), but no logo exists that matches what is on this shirt (assuming the S with a dot is a logo and not a sponsor). I would have believed this was the team, but there is also a WSG Swarovski Wattens that still exists. Their badge and colors do not match either, so I'm not sure.

All of that said, when FC Swarovski Tirol existed, they did take on Liverpool in the UEFA Cup back in 1991. Perhaps some nice Scouser can dip into the way back machine and remember/find proof of playing a team in this shirt. Unfortunately, all I've been able to find so far is a matchday programme which has no pics of the visiting club, at least on the cover.

Happy hunting, and thank you.

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