Dirty Dodge T-Shirt | Fort Dodge Iowa Pride Skull Graphic Tee

Little Chicago. Dirty Dodge. Earned, not given.

Fort Dodge has a nickname and it didn't come from a chamber of commerce brochure. They call it Dirty Dodge. They call it Little Chicago. People from there say it with their chest — because a town that gets called the toughest city in Iowa doesn't apologize for it, it owns it. This shirt owns it.

Three skull beer cans wrapped in barbed wire, labeled DIRTY DODGE, stare straight out of a neon paint splatter in yellow, blue, pink and green — chaos and color exploding off the fabric the same way a Friday night in Fort Dodge tends to go. DIRTY DODGE in bold distressed block type rides above the whole composition, stating facts. It's a drinking town with a wrestling problem, and the shirt doesn't pull a single punch.

Fort Dodge is USG gypsum miners and Dodger wrestlers, dive bars and hard winters, the kind of place where people work brutal shifts and then drink at establishments where the neon still works and the pool table is slightly warped. It's the city that produced Bill Koll, one of Iowa's greatest wrestlers ever. It's the city that packed the Fort Dodge arena for the Byron's benefit concert when a legendary bar in nearby Pomeroy needed saving. It's the city that calls itself Dirty Dodge and means it as a compliment.

This shirt is for everyone who grew up there, moved away and still claims it. For everyone who stayed and never needed to explain why. For anyone who has ever said "I'm from Fort Dodge" and watched the other person's face and felt proud of exactly that reaction.

Available in Black. Printed fresh on demand on soft ring-spun cotton, lightweight and built for every long shift and late night it takes you through.

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• 100% ring-spun cotton
• 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Quarter-turned to avoid crease down the center
• Blank product sourced from Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Haiti or Guatemala

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

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