The Arizona Wildcats will wear special, one-off uniforms honoring the USS Arizona in Saturday’s game. Fans can look the part, too, with the proceeds benefiting charity.
The UA and The Underestimated City, a Fourth Avenue business, have teamed up to sell battleship gray “shirseys” — T-shirts that look like jerseys — for Saturday’s game. The shirts are $30 and can be purchased either at the shop, 402 N Fourth Ave., or online.
Proceeds will benefit Arizona Final Salute, a charity that helps survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and their immediate family return to Honolulu for the event’s 75th anniversary. Business was brisk shortly after the shop opened at noon Friday, with only XXL and XXXL sizes available. A fresh order of shirts was delivered in the late afternoon.
The shirts were the brainchild of The Underestimated City co-owners Israel Zavala, who served in the Arizona Army National Guard, and Gabe Grateron. Graterton suggested donating the dri-fit shirt and giving proceeds to charity.
The Underestimated City — TUC for short, get it? — sells T-shirts, hats and hoodies geared toward promoting Tucson pride.
In the past, they have sold shirts designed to look like the Arizona Wildcats’ cactus-and-desert logo and that of the Triple-A Tucson Toros and Tucson Sidewinders. It’s iconic T-shirt and hat features the Downtown Tucson skyline: Well, the Superior Court building, One South Church and the Bank of America building.
