{"id":5459,"date":"2017-05-08T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2017-05-08T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:34:12","slug":"1983-los-angeles-express-ticket-brochure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/1983-los-angeles-express-ticket-brochure\/","title":{"rendered":"1983 Los Angeles Express Ticket Brochure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love USFL ephemera? I know I do, so this 1983 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/usfl\/teams\/express\/press-room-usfl-express.html\">Los Angeles Express<\/a> USFL ticket brochure scratches me right where I itch. It&#8217;s so full of hope and optimism, it almost makes me sad again that the league failed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5460\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-4.jpg\" alt=\"1983 Los Angeles Express Ticket Brochure\" width=\"1543\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-4.jpg 1543w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-4-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-4-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-4-1024x442.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5461\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-1.jpg\" alt=\"1983 Los Angeles Express Ticket Brochure\" width=\"662\" height=\"1558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-1.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-1-127x300.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-1-435x1024.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The front of the brochure has a really cool team graphic that is one of the first I&#8217;ve seen that really reinforces the train motif.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5462\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-2.jpg\" alt=\"1983 Los Angeles Express Ticket Brochure\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-2-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-2-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-2-1024x797.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Head coach Hugh Campbell, touted here as the winningest coach in CFL history, left the Express after the 1983 season to become head coach of the Houston Oilers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5463\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-3.jpg\" alt=\"1983 Los Angeles Express Ticket Brochure\" width=\"1040\" height=\"1568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-3.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-3-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-la-express-usfl-ticket-brochure-3-679x1024.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cheapest Express season ticket package (9 games) sold for $67.50 in 1983. By comparison, a four-game package for UCLA football cost $50 that year. The cheapest package for the Raiders, who were newly arrived in L.A. that year, were $100 (10 games including the\u00a0preseason).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love USFL ephemera? I know I do, so this 1983 Los Angeles Express USFL ticket brochure scratches me right where I itch. It&#8217;s so full of hope and optimism, it almost makes me sad again that the league failed. The front of the brochure has a really cool team graphic that is one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[55,235,12,282,126],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-ephemera","tag-1980s","tag-brochures","tag-football","tag-los-angeles-express","tag-usfl","wpcat-135-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}