I think it's a "67"..isn't that supposed to be your graduating year..that would make Axel about 36 in this movie..were they trying to make him seem much older? Just was always wondering....
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I've always thought about that 67 too. Maybe it was inside thing on the movie, the number meant something to somebody who had something to do with BHC II.
sharei never really thought about it until i saw your post (always thought it was a cool jacket tho)....that was a throwback detroit lions jacket...i think the 67 was just reflective of either the '67 season or the number of the player who wore it. however, there's a caveat...the leaping lion logo on the helmet/jacket was not used until the early 70s...prior to that, it was the old-school horizontal lion with 2 blue/silver vertical stripes behind it.
from the trivia section: "Axel wears a Detriot Lions jacket with the number 67 on it. At the time Greg Orton wore that number for the Lions."