i may have just stumbled upon some obscure/unconfirmed crayola media
for context: i was on the “list of Crayola colors” Wikipedia article because i was bored. i clicked one of the footnote links and it lead me to the now-defunct crayoncollecting.com, which had many of its links archived on the Wayback Machine before the site shut down. this site was created and solely operated by one Ed Welter, who began his crayon-collecting hobby in 2001. the earliest Wayback capture of his site is dated March 22nd, 2004.
the footnote contained a wayback link to the definitive color list, so i looked. there were two “unknown” colors with a sidenote saying they were ‘part of a special Philadelphia Eagles make-up pack’ listed at the top of the page. i was intrigued by this, so i dug some more and found an image of the product on a different article from the same site.
in the latter article, there was a blurb beside the aforementioned product photo that said: “Rarer still are the two Philadelphia Eagles crayons done for a football game in [2001]. I’ve personally only seen one of these boxes in an auction and I don’t know what the two colors are…”. from the latest capture of the color list with no error page (November 22nd, 2021), the two ‘eagles pack’ colors still had many question marks beside them, meaning that Welter was most-likely unable to identify them.
if anyone else has more information on this, i will only communicate through this comments section about the subject of my post. thanks for reading!