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**Breaking News 12/15/11** FC Tampa Bay regains rights to use the Tampa Bay Rowdies name. Look for new merchandise soon.

This “unofficial” Tampa Bay Rowdies t-shirt is available from Who Are Ya Designs for $18.99.  Why is it unofficial?  Well, it’s a long story.  It goes back to wanting an official Rowdies jersey.

This is one of my favorite shirts.  Originally I could only order them in bulk, so I order a couple dozen, and sold them through this website.  Sold them mostly to Florida but people have bought them coast to coast.

A month after I started selling them, the Tampa Bay Rowdies reformed.  Who saw that coming?  You can see version 2.0 play in the new NASL second division.  There’s a lawsuit over the logo (which caused me headaches) that’s caused the team to be called FC Tampa Bay.  That’s why the team itself doesn’t sell shirts like this.  The people who claim to own the logo do sell this shirt.  Their site is http://section219.com/.   They definitely don’t make it easy to order.  Last I checked they sold them for $36 each.  If you want one, this may be your best bet.

If you’re a fan of NASL shirts, then check out my NASL T-Shirt section for links of other shirts I have found.

Slightly off topic, but Peter Ward of Tampa Bay Rowdies fame wrote a book called “No Goal, No Glory. An English Soccer Star in the NASL and MISL” that’s available on the Kindle.  Since it is so hard to get anything Rowdies, I thought I’d include it here.