Dodge Safety Sheriff : 1970s

1-7/8-inch promotional pinback button

“You in a heap of trouble, boy!”

Joseph H. Higgins (1925 – 1998) American commercial, film and television actor. From 1969 to 1975 Higgins appeared on Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge Division “Dodge Rebellion” television commercials as a sheriff, winning a Clio Award for his performances. Sheriff Joe was a Southern over-bearing with a good ol’ boy personae. He was known for playing the role of Jake Shakespeare in the American legal drama television series Arrest and Trial and for playing the recurring role of Nils Swenson in The Rifleman.

NFL - National Football league : c 1980s

 

Have a Happy Day

Rutgers University - Scarlet Knights Football

1994 Rutgers Stadium Opening Game SGA pin

my apologies to the Rutgers kickers

Scarlet Knights : Rutgers was among the first American institutions to engage in intercollegiate athletics, and participated in a small circle of schools that included Yale University, Columbia University, and long-time rival, Princeton University. The four schools met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Manhattan on October 19, 1873, to establish a set of rules governing their intercollegiate competition, and particularly to codify the new game of football. Rutgers University is referred to as "the birthplace of college football" as the first intercollegiate football game was held on College Field between Rutgers and Princeton on November 6, 1869, in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Peerless Modelers Club : c.1930s

 Peerless Modelers Club

NASL - Chicago Sting

 

Chicago Sting (1974–1988) American professional soccer team in the North American Soccer League from 1975 to 1984 and in the Major Indoor Soccer League in the 1982–83 and 1984 to 1988. They were North American Soccer League champions in 1981 and 1984, one of only two NASL teams to win the championship twice. The team mascot was Stanley Sting