{"id":174895,"date":"2026-02-12T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174895\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:47:09","slug":"mls-san-jose-earthquakes-pay-tribute-to-grateful-dead-with-new-kit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174895\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS\u2019 San Jose Earthquakes pay tribute to Grateful Dead with new kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Soccer\u2019s San Jose Earthquakes are paying tribute to the Grateful Dead with their brand-new kit.<\/p>\n<p>The team has just debuted a new secondary jersey, which is purple and blue tie-dye with the Grateful Dead skeleton logo on a patch on the sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUlcJwJmmtv\/?img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, the new kit celebrates \u201cthe spirit of the Bay Area and the enduring connection between music, culture, and community.\u201d It\u2019s described as a \u201ccollaboration that bridges the gap between the Grateful Dead\u2019s legendary counterculture and the relentless spirit of Soccer in San Jose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kit is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/epicentershop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available for preorder<\/a> and will officially be available starting Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>And the Earthquakes aren\u2019t the only team paying tribute to an artist with their new kit. The St. Louis City SC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUn89ymju1w\/?img_index=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">debuted<\/a> a secondary kit paying tribute to Tina Turner, featuring a patch with her portrait on the sleeve and her name embroidered on the back. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsstore.com\/en\/st-louis-city-sc\/jerseys\/t-21767869+d-36551960+z-972-1763462761?ab=%7Bwt-static_graphic%7D%7Bpt-tlp%7D%7Bal-Aspot%7D%7Bct-jerseylaunch26%7D%7Btt-STLO%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Soccer\u2019s San Jose Earthquakes are paying tribute to the Grateful Dead with their brand-new kit. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2790,3934,42694,16005,82785,11203,21814,3137,88,90,89,4290],"class_list":["post-174895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-dead","tag-earthquakes","tag-grateful","tag-jose","tag-kit","tag-mls","tag-pay","tag-san","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}