Everyone has a favourite old sports team, local business, or venue that’s no longer around today.

Times change and all good things must come to an end, so we totally understand when some of the classics have to go. But what if you still want to rep your local favourite from days past?

YYC’s own C of Dead Clothing Co. brings a solution to Calgarians with an apparel line that offers merch from long-dead sports franchises such as the Calgary Cannons, Stampede Wrestling, Calgary Radz, and Calgary 88s.

Other local icons that are represented include the Corral arena, Cecil Hotel, AM106 radio station, Lloyd’s Recreation roller rink, and recent pandemic casualty Ranchman’s Dancehall.

C of Dead is made up of Jonathan Anderson, Garrett Crump, and Ryan Williamson – and together they form a business trifecta.

Anderson has a background in marketing and communications, and he explains that Crump is “the numbers guy.” Williamson rounded things out when he joined the team in November 2019, bringing his design expertise to the group and acting as “quality control.”

In addition to their full-time careers, C of Dead has become a passion project for this group of three, involving designing, printing, and marketing apparel representing Calgary’s illustrious past.

Anderson and Crump have known each other since junior high, and both attended the University of Lethbridge. As they reconnected over beers in more recent years, they began discussing their love of the Calgary Cannons baseball team and wondered if there was somewhere online that they could purchase merchandise to rep the gone-but-not-forgotten team.