Strange soccer fashion video from the 1970s

Please enjoy this strange 1970s German video about football (soccer) uniforms. Deeplystrange. Bundesliga Fashion (via Iowahawk, thanks COOP!)

[#1 posted by humanpower , December 18, 2008 12:59 PM]

Except for the Geico caveman in the yellow and black who clearly didn't bring his A-game to the dance floor, it wasn't *that* strange.

[#2 posted by Gimeor , December 18, 2008 1:04 PM]

Funny that you and Mark posted this same video almost at the same time. ( I see now that Mark removed his post)

Great minds post I alike I guess. :)

[#3 posted by Takuan , December 18, 2008 1:18 PM]

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-04-01/cover_story-2.jpg

[#4 posted by jeffallen , December 18, 2008 1:22 PM]

Double-posted. And now, BennyHillified.

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=JSyhDbV9wHo

[#5 posted by Anonymous , December 18, 2008 2:01 PM]

Don't! Stop! Don't! Stop...don't...stop...don't stop...don't stop...don't stop! don't stop!

[#6 posted by Johnny Cat , December 18, 2008 2:09 PM]

Just what I needed after the Galveston story. Delightful!

[#7 posted by Boba Fett Diop , December 18, 2008 2:25 PM]

The Benny Hill version makes this even more full of win!

Even without the Geico Caveman/Joy of Sex model in the yellow and black, it was still extremely strange. It just shows you that football could have gone a very different way in the 70s. In a way it reminds me of various state-sponsored amusements such as Expo 67 and Ontario Place. I'm not sure if it's better or worse than just plastering Vodafone or Fly Emirates all over everything.

Although in a way it reminds me of a number of early 90s football kits:

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/images/Liverpool-89-HomeXS.jpg

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/season_shirts/thumbnails/football_shirt_1475_1_500x400.jpg

A similar product of their times.

[#8 posted by AliasUndercover , December 18, 2008 3:03 PM]

I'm afraid I have to say this,

ZOMG that BennyHillifier RoXXors!!111!!

[#9 posted by wolfiesma , December 18, 2008 3:09 PM]

I think it needs house music... The ravey outfits are simply irrisistible.

[#10 posted by Anonymous , December 18, 2008 3:22 PM]

Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!

[#11 posted by Rider , December 18, 2008 3:32 PM]

Now is the time on Sprokets when we dance!

[#12 posted by avraamov , December 18, 2008 3:37 PM]

is that milton nascimento they're dancing to?

[#13 posted by Kleinzeit , December 18, 2008 3:52 PM]

#11: You use the term dancing loosely, I take it, avraamov?

[#14 posted by pinguis , December 18, 2008 3:53 PM]

I was clearly born in the wrong decade.

Long live the 70's

[#15 posted by avraamov , December 18, 2008 4:02 PM]

#12: yeah i suppose it does have that 'been stuck in the dressing room for hours and we're allowed OUT NOW YEEAH MMM mmm hm mmmm MMMM' sort of feel to it.

[#16 posted by axl456 , December 18, 2008 5:41 PM]

el ritual de apareamiento de los alemanes en esa epoca..

[#17 posted by Anonymous , December 18, 2008 6:03 PM]

@1:15 - "We've got to explain this jersey for the black-and-white-viewers" ... those were the days.

[#18 posted by Boba Fett Diop , December 18, 2008 6:04 PM]

Here's another one from the 1990s...Madchester United.

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/images/Man-United-90-Away.jpg

Actually, other than the fantastic color schemes and the questionable dancing (and the danskins...what was that about?), the video isn't radically different from actual football styles at the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXdIyRwAfU

The only thing missing from the fashion show was a guy with a huge afro.

[#19 posted by zuzu , December 18, 2008 7:40 PM]

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978!

[#20 posted by kmoser , December 18, 2008 8:49 PM]

Apparently the Germans were obsessed with soccer fashion in the 1970s.

[#21 posted by Anonymous , December 18, 2008 8:55 PM]

Ohh those are suggestions for the trikots for different socker teams. They even anounce the colours for people with monochrome TV sets.

[#22 posted by jamesey , December 18, 2008 9:48 PM]

LOL Zuzu!
Hey, Where's my sex tape!!??

[#23 posted by tw15 , December 19, 2008 2:22 AM]

We have the kits for (in no order) Schalke 04, HSV Hamburg, VfB Stuttgart and Duisberg together with the proposed groovy replacements. I don't know if they were ever introduced.

The development of new synthetics lead to some radical soccer kits in the 1970s. The Holland kit of 1974 was famously brilliant, the brown Coventry City kit of the 1907s was infamously terrible.

Günther Netzer, the blond chappy in the black slacks, is today the "Simon Cowell" of German football TV punditry. Great fottballer and 1970s sports fashion icon.

[#24 posted by tw15 , December 19, 2008 2:40 AM]

And there's groovy tops for Fortuna Duesseldorf and Eintracht Franfurt too. The commentator said he liked Fortuna's stripey one the best.

[#25 posted by pimlottc , December 19, 2008 7:10 AM]

#19: What a penetrating goal that was.

[#26 posted by toxonix , December 19, 2008 1:54 PM]

I don't approve of this kind of Western decadence. They dance because they don't know the downfall of Capitalism is imminent.

[#27 posted by mexican cheese , December 19, 2008 3:54 PM]

Why is it that the Germans have a word for everything. I am looking for the word, is it Frolich? there may be an umlaut?
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[#28 posted by Anonymous , December 19, 2008 8:08 PM]

Oh wow, I forgot about the Benny Hill sketch of this. XD The original was weird enough, though.

[#29 posted by devophill , December 20, 2008 4:50 AM]

It seemed to sync up perfectly with what I was listening to, namely The Fall. They were really getting into it, too.