Your favorite Pitt sports-related memorabilia item?

[cbpitt2]

I just happened to pick up this beaut from Ebay, which made me wonder, what's your favorite Pitt sports-related memorabilia item? I have some signed letters framed from Johnny Majors and of course, the national championship Sports Illustrated magazine as well as the '82 Sugar Bowl game program. Some dirt from underneath Pitt Stadium but no troughs though. What are some of your favorite Pitt sports-related memorabilia items you have?

 

[ratking17]

I had a co worker that retired about 5 yrs ago give me the sports illustrated pitt is it cover of 77 sugar bowl.

I have a chunk of pitt stadium a guy with a samari sword gave me from Nov of 99 when we stormed the field.

 

[303vND]

I have the Sports Illustrated with the cover that is my avatar. I was at that game and was trying to figure out why are they introducing players individually.

 

[yourhired]

I have a signed Johnny Majors letter after he took the TN job. I had a vince lombardi autograph lost that and Rocky Marciano visited our business for dinner and I have a autograph photo.

 

[MJG-90]

I have a commemorative brick frame Pitt Stadium.

 

[CJsE]

During one of my moves I lost my acrylic cube with a piece of Pitt's turf, my ticket stub from the Notre Dame game, and photo with my father at the game. That one hurt.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

I have the Sports Illustrated issue with Hugh Green on the cover - and autographed by The Man himself when he was with the Dolphins.

I have a football autographed by Mike Ditka - gotten by my son who waited for Ditka outside of his restaurant.

I used to have a photo of me doing tequila shots with Wesley Posvar, but unfortunately it got lost during a move.

 

[ratking17]

I have the Sports Illustrated issue with Hugh Green on the cover - and autographed by The Man himself when he was with the Dolphins.

I have a football autographed by Mike Ditka - gotten by my son who waited for Ditka outside of his restaurant.

I used to have a photo of me doing tequila shots with Wesley Posvar, but unfortunately it got lost during a move.

That's Mr Forbes quad to you

 

[Panther Parrothead]

That's Mr Forbes quad to you

Actually, we all called him “Uncle Wes”. 😄

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

I have a signed Johnny Majors letter after he took the TN job. I had a vince lombardi autograph lost that and Rocky Marciano visited our business for dinner and I have a autograph photo.

Ahhh yes. Who can’t recall Marciano boxing for Pitt before turning pro and going 49-0? Or Lombardi patrolling the sidelines.

 

[CrazyPaco]

Copies of Jock Sutherland's and Doc Carlson's original Pitt coaching contracts.

 

[Celtsfan]

My early 90's PITT pullover STARTER jacket!! Constantly get compliments and people even ask about BUYING it!! LOL. It ain't for SALE!!

 

[Pitt1975]

I bought a signed Dorsett jersey Nat’l champs.
Have a piece of the Pitt track on display. Mounted on wood with a brass plate description.
Have a signed Todd Graham football.
Have a mounted poster of Pitt’s last game in Pitt stadium.
Have a blue and gold round pin, with Dorsett’s image on it. Circa 1977.

 

[ratking17]

I bought a signed Dorsett jersey Nat’l champs.
Have a piece of the Pitt track on display. Mounted on wood with a brass plate description.
Have a signed Todd Graham football.
Have a mounted poster of Pitt’s last game in Pitt stadium.
Have a blue and gold round pin, with Dorsett’s image on it. Circa 1977.

The todd Graham piece is the elite one there.

 

[PittMan2003]

My wife got my a signed Tony dorsett helmet a few years ago. I was pleasantly shocked by it!

 

[mike 301]

My blue and gold Pitt script helmet from when my son played ..
Edit: That and my Gold and Blue helmet .. Was looking through all my $hit ..

 

[Cmart2004]

My junior year, ‘03, I had just received a ‘Duke’ NFL ball for my birthday. Me and a few friends were wasted and playing with it in the Bouquet Gardens quad after getting back from the bars. Rod Rutherford and Larry Fitzgerald and some other football player showed up (also wasted, and also lived there) and we all threw it around for a while. Rutherford tried to walk away with it, Fitz said “Don’t be a d1ck, give the guy his ball back”, lol. Little did I know that he’d be a future Hall of Fame player. Curious if he’d remember that story. I still have the ball, lol

 

[pittguy81]

I have the Sports Illustrated from 1980 with Hugh Green on the Cover "Baddest Cat in the Game"

 

[Pittnerski]

Game ball ‘97 Pitt vs Miami

 

[pittdan77]

I never really collected stuff. Have plenty of cool memories (surprisingly) like attending football camp, meeting Bill Fralic, Goose telling me to get the F out of his way.

 

[steelcurtain55.]

I had that painting of the Fralic, Green, Marino, Dorsett, and Ditka hovering over PITT stadium. I wish I knew what I did with it. I thought that was a great looking picture. Does anyone know if they still produce it?

 

[Chairman Moe]

I found a program from the 1970 Pitt vs Kent State football game (my freshman year). Starting DB for the Golden Flashes was none other than Nick Saban

Pitt won 27-6

The infamous 36-35 win over WVU was two weeks later

 

[CrazyPaco]

My junior year, ‘03, I had just received a ‘Duke’ NFL ball for my birthday. Me and a few friends were wasted and playing with it in the Bouquet Gardens quad after getting back from the bars. Rod Rutherford and Larry Fitzgerald and some other football player showed up (also wasted, and also lived there) and we all threw it around for a while. Rutherford tried to walk away with it, Fitz said “Don’t be a d1ck, give the guy his ball back”, lol. Little did I know that he’d be a future Hall of Fame player. Curious if he’d remember that story. I still have the ball, lol

As if we needed more evidence Fitz was a classy guy.

 

[12162022]

I have a dish with an aerial rendition of the Stadium & a lot of Oakland that was painted by Nat Youngblood. Beautiful mounting that greets anyone walking into my home office. Wife bought that about 35 years ago it's not the original but still looks great. Not sure who gets it after we've gone.

 

[CrazyPaco]

In the spirit of show and tell that might be interesting for some, here's two more...a circa 1907-08 (I'm guessing) wool/felt WUP pennant, and my suspicion, is likely one from the same pennant manufacturer from the following (or near after) year in 1908-09 after the Western University of Pennsylvania changed its name to the University of Pittsburgh. As these were found together, it is my guess is that they were originally owned by a student who was at the university during this transition.

Got a lot of moth holes, but they are 116+ year old pieces of fabric.

The oldest item I think I have, non sports related, is an 1822 university catalog (I placed a full scan at the link).

My intent, at some point, is to give these to Pitt special collections library.

I know of two separate individuals that have collected, respectively, nearly ever game program and ticket stub, home and away, over the last 100+ years. They're sort of incredible collections in their completeness. One of these individuals has even tirelessly created, on Wikipedia for all to see, an enormous wealth of info on each season of Pitt football from 1890 up to about 1953 and includes images of some of the memorabilia that he owns. See for example, the wikipedia article on the 1931 season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Pittsburgh_Panthers_football_team

Wikipedia is now an unbelievable resource for illustrated Pitt football history.

 

[thebadby2]

My junior year, ‘03, I had just received a ‘Duke’ NFL ball for my birthday. Me and a few friends were wasted and playing with it in the Bouquet Gardens quad after getting back from the bars. Rod Rutherford and Larry Fitzgerald and some other football player showed up (also wasted, and also lived there) and we all threw it around for a while. Rutherford tried to walk away with it, Fitz said “Don’t be a d1ck, give the guy his ball back”, lol. Little did I know that he’d be a future Hall of Fame player. Curious if he’d remember that story. I still have the ball, lol

Fitz was wasted?

 

[Panther Holla]

PittStadium sculpture. Franklin mint, I think.

 

[Islanderpanther]

Football autographed by Majors and members of 76 national championship team.

 

[PittMan2003]

As if we needed more evidence Fitz was a classy guy.

That's awesome. I played street football with Rutherford near Bouquet Gardens as well. He was defending me and naturally I struggled to get open when he pressed me at the line of scrimmage! We were playing with Antonio Bryant's football.

I remember when I met him he said, "What's up playboy, I'm Rod Rud..." It was really cool.

 

[Atilla Cosby]

I have a ton of Pitt stuff. Hard to pick a favorite.

Here we have some cups and my 2003 Big East Tournament giant mug, which was filled with beer before I drank it all. I don't drink pop, so the Pitt cups from the Pete are ones I found that others left. I love my Chevy Troutman dunking cup. I was his real estate agent for the house he bought in 2010 the east end. He still lives there. Super cool dude. His dad was a lunatic. White guy with a pony tail. Was hitting on the closing agent at the closing.
https://i.ibb.co/pvjcQVn/20250120-235515.jpg

Here is my Panther Country welcome mat, or whatever you want to call it. The other side of it is the same thing, but for the Texas Longhorns. In the corner is my football signed by Curtis Martin to me, good luck it says. His dad worked with my dad at Charley Brothers in New Stanton.
<a href="https://ibb.co/fSH36vQ"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/PYg2XQt/20250120-234717.jpg" alt="20250120-234717" border="0"></a>

Here is me with Coach Majors circa 1993. I was probably 13 in this picture. It was at the Hills in Irwin, I believe. I don't think it was Ames. They had a drawing to win everything in the background, and I won. I still have that steel Pitt trash can in my room. I've never used it for trash because, well, it's too nice for trash, of course.
<a href="https://ibb.co/XxLj12S"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/s9Rbnmy/20250120-235036.jpg" alt="20250120-235036" border="0"></a>

This is an inflatable ball that was "borrowed" from an Enterprise Rent a Car somewhere in Pgh. I was a senior and went to a job fair at the Enterprise location. After the event, we saw where they stored the ball and successfully heisted it.
<a href="https://ibb.co/nzkYxDY"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/cDTZ4NZ/20250120-234905.jpg" alt="20250120-234905" border="0"></a>

Here are some footballs and a basketball sitting in front of my MBA degree.
<a href="https://ibb.co/hR6j8Yd"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/KjPkyKs/20250120-234835.jpg" alt="20250120-234835" border="0"></a>

There is a lot going on here. There's a really old football shaped window ornament with suction cup for the car. There are various Iron City Pitt beer cans, some full, some empty. That panther in the middle bottom is something I did in middle school art class. I always liked that glass mug in the top right as well. There's also a "meet me at Gippers" mug from Pitt vs ND, 1986.
<a href="https://ibb.co/6ypLTrX"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/sgDzNbW/20250120-234802.jpg" alt="20250120-234802" border="0"></a>

 

[Atilla Cosby]

In the spirit of show and tell that might be interesting for some, here's two more...a circa 1907-08 (I'm guessing) wool/felt WUP pennant, and my suspicion, is likely one from the same pennant manufacturer from the following (or near after) year in 1908-09 after the Western University of Pennsylvania changed its name to the University of Pittsburgh. As these were found together, it is my guess is that they were originally owned by a student who was at the university during this transition.

Got a lot of moth holes, but they are 116+ year old pieces of fabric.

The oldest item I think I have, non sports related, is an 1822 university catalog (I placed a full scan at the link).

My intent, at some point, is to give these to Pitt special collections library.

I know of two separate individuals that have collected, respectively, nearly ever game program and ticket stub, home and away, over the last 100+ years. They're sort of incredible collections in their completeness. One of these individuals has even tirelessly created, on Wikipedia for all to see, an enormous wealth of info on each season of Pitt football from 1890 up to about 1953 and includes images of some of the memorabilia that he owns. See for example, the wikipedia article on the 1931 season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Pittsburgh_Panthers_football_team

Wikipedia is now an unbelievable resource for illustrated Pitt football history.

How did you get the pictures to insert? I can't seem to figure that out.

 

[Panther Holla]

I have a ton of Pitt stuff. Hard to pick a favorite.

Here we have some cups and my 2003 Big East Tournament giant mug, which was filled with beer before I drank it all. I don't drink pop, so the Pitt cups from the Pete are ones I found that others left. I love my Chevy Troutman dunking cup. I was his real estate agent for the house he bought in 2010 the east end. He still lives there. Super cool dude. His dad was a lunatic. White guy with a pony tail. Was hitting on the closing agent at the closing.
https://i.ibb.co/pvjcQVn/20250120-235515.jpg

Here is my Panther Country welcome mat, or whatever you want to call it. The other side of it is the same thing, but for the Texas Longhorns. In the corner is my football signed by Curtis Martin to me, good luck it says. His dad worked with my dad at Charley Brothers in New Stanton.
<a href="https://ibb.co/fSH36vQ"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/PYg2XQt/20250120-234717.jpg" alt="20250120-234717" border="0"></a>

Here is me with Coach Majors circa 1993. I was probably 13 in this picture. It was at the Hills in Irwin, I believe. I don't think it was Ames. They had a drawing to win everything in the background, and I won. I still have that steel Pitt trash can in my room. I've never used it for trash because, well, it's too nice for trash, of course.
<a href="https://ibb.co/XxLj12S"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/s9Rbnmy/20250120-235036.jpg" alt="20250120-235036" border="0"></a>

This is an inflatable ball that was "borrowed" from an Enterprise Rent a Car somewhere in Pgh. I was a senior and went to a job fair at the Enterprise location. After the event, we saw where they stored the ball and successfully heisted it.
<a href="https://ibb.co/nzkYxDY"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/cDTZ4NZ/20250120-234905.jpg" alt="20250120-234905" border="0"></a>

Here are some footballs and a basketball sitting in front of my MBA degree.
<a href="https://ibb.co/hR6j8Yd"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/KjPkyKs/20250120-234835.jpg" alt="20250120-234835" border="0"></a>

There is a lot going on here. There's a really old football shaped window ornament with suction cup for the car. There are various Iron City Pitt beer cans, some full, some empty. That panther in the middle bottom is something I did in middle school art class. I always liked that glass mug in the top right as well. There's also a "meet me at Gippers" mug from Pitt vs ND, 1986.
<a href="https://ibb.co/6ypLTrX"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/sgDzNbW/20250120-234802.jpg" alt="20250120-234802" border="0"></a>

I have the rug, which is a wall hanging. From Feinbergs in the Strip.

 

[CrazyPaco]

How did you get the pictures to insert? I can't seem to figure that out.

Use a free image hosting site like https://imgbb.com/. There are many such sites. Once uploaded, use the full link for the image, not the abbreviated link (the one that follows "img src=" and ends in .jpg). Click on the "insert image" icon at the top of the message boards dialogue box where you are tying and paste the full link in.

BTW, it looks like you are missing this past year's IC Light Hail to Pitt can (and last season's Oakland Original's Fake Slide can).

 

[bschulter]

I have a 1976 unlit candle of a panther standing on top of a log with PITT 1 on the side of the cat with 1976 in the log.
Pretty cool

 

[Millerton]

I got nothing.......everytime I have had something it gets burned in fit of rage.

 

[cbpitt2]

Use a free image hosting site like https://imgbb.com/. There are many such sites. Once uploaded, use the full link for the image, not the abbreviated link (the one that follows "img src=" and ends in .jpg). Click on the "insert image" icon at the top of the message boards dialogue box where you are tying and paste the full link in.

BTW, it looks like you are missing this past year's IC Light Hail to Pitt can (and last season's Oakland Original's Fake Slide can).

I use imgur.com. Upload the picture into your account. Then click on it and hit the direct link which usually ends .jpg).

 

[cbpitt2]

My latest Ebay acquisition.

 

[ratking17]

My latest Ebay acquisition.

That's a bad ass program cover

 

[TD_6082]

Lol. This is going to sound like a joke, but I'm 100% serious. I have a cigar that Johnny Majors gave me after the 1996 53-52 win over Temple.

 

[12162022]

Lol. This is going to sound like a joke, but I'm 100% serious. I have a cigar that Johnny Majors gave me after the 1996 53-52 win over Temple.

Has it been in a humidor?? JK