Quote Originally Posted by joelsabi View Post
What Mears seems to say is that they checked 9 sources for photos to match the jersey and found none. The photos they found, showed styles that elimated years from 1975-1978. By eliminating these years and taking into account the tags, they deduced it was a 1974 jersey.

Seems pretty clears to me.
Yes but a photo was found (not by Mears) of the 1974 warmup jersey and it didn't match. See this thread:
www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=38999