A field guide to thrifted sport
Secondhand Archive
About · the archive

Field guide,

from the rack.

A guide to buying vintage NFL sweatshirts and jerseys secondhand: how to tell when a piece was made, what it should cost, and which listings are worth your money.

Secondhand Archive files vintage NFL apparel by team, era and garment: one page for, say, 1990s Green Bay Packers sweatshirts and another for 1980s Los Angeles Raiders jerseys. Each page tells you what an original from that era looks like (the tag makers, the logo and uniform of the time, the construction), how to spot a reproduction, and how vintage sizes fit.

36 of the most-searched collections carry a full buying guide: a dated snapshot of what is listed on eBay right now, with the listings we would actually buy and why, plus a representative photo. The rest of the archive has shorter collector notes and a link to the live eBay search. Start with the buying guideif you're new to vintage sportswear.

We don't sell anything and we don't earn from the eBay links. The site is part of allbutnew, a set of specialist secondhand guides; if you have a piece to sell, allbutnew will make you an offer. The disclosure and methodology pages explain the details.

Corrections

Got a tag date wrong or a uniform year off by one? Collectors know this better than any reference, and we want to hear it. Send corrections through allbutnew and we fix them in the next update.