Thursday Throwback: Starter Jackets

(Every Thursday WKFTB will bring you a throwback, something that reminds us of our late-80s-early-90s childhood. Today's edition: Starter Jackets.).

Every dude born after 1980 had one of these puffed-out, logo gems of a jacket. The Starter Jacket was every lil dude's go-to for winter wear. I don't think they were waterproof or even protected you from winter weather -- pretty sure things would soak like a sponge actually -- but they were wicked popular nonetheless.

The logos were huge and obnoxious, including a chuge one on the back, a small one or word on the front and usually a little on on the zipper or hood. You'd pull em over and there was a little half zipper for the next. You could collect all teams and colors, although the NFL ones (particularly the Cowboys, Redskins and Dolphins) seemed to be the post popular.

I'm not sure if they didn't make that many Boston ones, but outside of the Celts, you never saw too many for New England teams.

This here was one of the secret most popular for one reason or the other. Look at this sweet logo:


I had a Cowboys one and hugggge yellow and black Bruins one. But, this was undoubtedly my most random and secretest one, though:

Why'd a have a Florida State one? Who the hell knows. Prolly got a sick deal at Marshall's or something. And if you were a kid trying to be ill, you wanted to have as many of these as possible.

I don't even think Starter exists as a company now, but I'd love to see one of these bubble coats around somewhere.

--Nick