AF1 Drinkware — Officially Licensed Team Tumblers

Double-wall stainless tumblers for all eight Arena Football One franchises. Officially licensed. Made to order. $34.99.

Royal Retros is the official store of Arena Football One, and that license covers more than jerseys. Our Drinkware collection is nine officially licensed 20-ounce tumblers — one for every AF1 team currently playing, plus a league-branded design — built the same way any premium insulated tumbler is built: double-wall stainless steel, a press-fit lid, and team graphics that hold up to daily use far better than a printed plastic cup. Every tumbler is $34.99, ships in the team's real colorway options, and carries the same license Royal Retros uses to sell AF1 jerseys, hoodies, and hats. It's the real thing, and it's the only place online that stocks all eight AF1 franchises in one drinkware line.

What You Can Shop

Nine active tumblers, one per AF1 franchise plus a league-wide design. Every tumbler is $34.99 and one size (20 ounces). Drinkware doesn't run on an apparel size chart — there's no S–5XL here, just a single capacity across the line, with color options that vary by team (most run two or three colorways). Royal Retros has carried AF1 pint glasses in the past and may again, but none are active right now, so this page sticks to what's actually in stock rather than describing a category that isn't purchasable today.

Shop by Team

• AF1 League Tumbler — the league mark itself, for fans who follow arena football more than any one franchise. Black, red, or navy, and the pick for anyone who wants the sport's identity rather than a single roster.
• Nashville Kats Tumbler — Tennessee's franchise, and the reigning 2026 Arena Crown champion after an August 9 win over Albany at F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville. Black, blue, or yellow, and the timeliest pick in the whole lineup this month.
• Albany Firebirds Tumbler — New York's club, back-to-back Arena Crown finalists in 2025 and 2026, with a championship in 2025 before Nashville turned the tables this August. Black, pewter, or orange.
• Kentucky Barrels Tumbler — bourbon-country branding for the Barrels, one of the more distinctive team identities in the league. Black, pewter, or navy.
• Michigan Arsenal Tumbler — the Arsenal's team colors on a tumbler built to survive a Michigan winter commute, not just a Sunday tailgate. Black, pewter, or red.
• Washington Wolfpack Tumbler — the Wolfpack, out of Everett, Washington, not the DC market fans sometimes assume. Black, purple, or teal.
• Minnesota Monsters Tumbler — Minnesota's entry in black or blue, built for a climate where an insulated cup actually earns its keep.
• Beaumont Renegades Tumbler — Texas Gulf Coast colors, black or red, for a fan base that tailgates in genuinely hot weather where the double-wall insulation matters both directions.
• Oceanside Bombers Tumbler — the Bombers, out of the San Diego market. Black, light blue, or navy.

Materials — Stainless, Ceramic, or Glass?

Team drinkware isn't one product, it's three different product categories wearing the same graphics, and picking the right one comes down to where the cup is going to live. Double-wall vacuum-insulated stainless steel — the construction behind every tumbler in this collection — traps a layer of vacuum between an inner and outer wall of steel, which is what keeps a cold drink cold and a hot drink hot for hours without the outside of the cup ever sweating or burning your hand. There's no liquid or gas in that gap to conduct heat, so the only path heat can travel is through the thin steel seam at the rim — which is why a well-made double-wall tumbler holds its temperature so much longer than a single-wall cup of the same size. It's also the toughest of the three formats: it survives a drop off a tailgate table, it survives a gym bag, and it doesn't chip the way ceramic can. Ceramic mugs trade that durability for a better feel at a desk or kitchen counter — they hold heat reasonably well for a cup of coffee but they don't have a vacuum layer, so a hot drink cools at roughly room-temperature speed, and a ceramic mug is the one style in this category that can chip or crack outright if it takes a real drop. Glass — pint glasses, tumbler glasses, the classic stadium giveaway cup — has no insulation at all and no drop tolerance, but it's the style that shows off a printed or etched design most clearly, which is why it's still the standard for a display piece rather than a daily driver. None of the current AF1 pint glasses in Royal Retros' system are active for sale right now, which is why this page focuses on the stainless tumbler line — the category where all nine AF1 designs are actually in stock and shippable today.

The graphic itself matters as much as the metal underneath it. Team tumblers are typically decorated one of two ways: a vinyl decal wrapped around the body, or a powder-coated finish with the design baked into the coating itself. A wrapped decal can peel at the edges over years of hand-washing and pocket-knife-in-the-bag abuse; a powder-coated or laser-etched design is part of the surface and won't lift the way a decal can, though it costs more to produce. Lids are almost always a food-grade, BPA-free plastic regardless of decoration method — that part of the construction doesn't vary much across the category, licensed or not.

Ounces Explained — Picking a Capacity

Insulated tumblers generally run in a handful of standard sizes, and the number on the box matters more than it looks like it should. A 12-ounce tumbler is a coffee-cup replacement, sized for a single serving and easy to fit in a small cupholder or a bag side pocket. A 20-ounce tumbler — the size across this entire AF1 line — is the all-purpose size: big enough to carry a full workday's worth of coffee or a long tailgate's worth of a cold drink, and still sized to fit a standard car cupholder without crowding it. Jump up to 30 ounces and beyond and a tumbler stops being a cupholder item and becomes more of a personal water bottle replacement — great for a gym bag, awkward for a car console. Royal Retros standardized on 20 ounces across the AF1 line specifically because it's the size that works everywhere a fan actually uses it: office desk, truck cupholder, stadium seat, tailgate table.

Who These Tumblers Are For

Three use cases cover most of the demand for this line. The office desk buyer wants something that looks sharp next to a keyboard and keeps coffee hot through a morning of meetings — that's a straightforward win for double-wall stainless over a ceramic mug that goes cold in twenty minutes. The tailgate buyer wants the opposite problem solved: a cold drink that stays cold through a hot parking-lot afternoon, which is exactly what the same vacuum-insulated construction handles in reverse. The gym-bag buyer just wants something that won't leak or dent after getting tossed around with cleats and a change of clothes — stainless steel wins there on toughness alone. All nine tumblers in this collection are built for all three use cases at once; nothing here is a display-only piece.

Care

Hand-wash is the safe default for any printed tumbler — dishwasher heat and detergent are the two things most likely to dull a graphic over time, even on stainless steel. If a product page specifically states dishwasher-safe, top-rack only is still the better bet for anything with a printed exterior rather than a laser-etched one, since the top rack runs cooler and keeps the tumbler away from the heating element at the bottom of the machine. Don't microwave stainless drinkware under any circumstances — metal and microwaves don't mix, full stop. A ceramic mug is dishwasher- and microwave-safe in most cases, but check the individual listing, since finish (matte vs. glossy, printed vs. sublimated) changes the answer, and a hand-painted or foil-accented mug should still be hand-washed regardless of the base material.

How Team Drinkware Evolved

Team-branded drinkware didn't start as a retail product — it started as a giveaway. Ballparks and arenas have handed out branded cups at the gate since long before anyone thought to sell drinkware as its own category, and for decades the standard promotional item was a reusable glass, not anything insulated. Glass was cheap to print, looked good under stadium lights, and nobody worried much about a cup surviving a drop, because it was a giveaway, not an heirloom. That changed in stages. Plastic replaced glass at most large venues by the 1980s for the obvious safety reason — glass in a packed crowd is a liability the moment it breaks, plastic isn't — and that shift is also what turned the stadium cup into something collectible almost by accident: a disposable item, printed with a date, an opponent, or a season logo, that most people threw away but a few people kept. Ceramic mugs followed a separate track entirely, driven less by stadiums and more by team stores and corporate offices, where a mug on a desk did the same branding job a bumper sticker did in a car. The most recent shift — the one that produced the tumblers in this collection — is the double-wall stainless boom of roughly the last decade, when insulated steel drinkware moved from a niche outdoor-gear category into the mainstream and sports leagues followed. That's the version of team drinkware that's actually built to be used every day rather than displayed once and forgotten, and it's why the tumbler, not the mug or the pint glass, is the format Royal Retros carries across the full AF1 lineup today.

There's a practical angle to the reusable shift too, beyond nostalgia and durability: a stadium or arena handing out one disposable cup per drink, per fan, per game adds up to a genuinely large volume of waste over a season, and that's part of why venues and leagues have leaned into reusable cup programs and branded tumbler sales over the last decade rather than sticking with pure disposables. A fan who brings — or buys — a tumbler that lasts for years instead of one game isn't just getting a better cup, they're generating less trash per visit, and that's become part of the sales pitch for insulated team drinkware industry-wide, AF1 included.

Why Stadium Cups Became Collectible

A cup isn't just a container once it's printed with something specific and temporary. A giveaway cup from a single game, a season logo that only ran one year, a team that folded or relocated — all of that turns an ordinary piece of concessions plastic into a dated artifact, which is exactly the logic behind why defunct-league and throwback drinkware holds collector interest today. The tumbler category adds a second layer to that same idea: because a stainless tumbler gets used constantly rather than kept in a box, a team's identity ends up woven into somebody's actual daily routine — the truck cupholder, the office desk, the gym bag — in a way a framed jersey never is. A drinkware collection that gets used ages into a collection with real sentimental weight precisely because it wasn't kept pristine and untouched. For a league like AF1, where team rosters and even franchises can shift year to year, a tumbler from a specific season carries the same kind of dated-artifact value that a giveaway cup from a defunct 1970s league carries — it's a fixed point from a moving league.

What Makes Ours Period-Correct

Built for daily use, not a shelf. Every tumbler is double-wall stainless steel with a press-fit lid, printed with the team's real current colors and marks. Nothing here is a generic blank — it is made to the same specs across all eight franchises.

Building a Full AF1 Drinkware Set

Because Royal Retros carries all eight active AF1 franchises in the same tumbler format at the same $34.99 price point, this is one of the few sports drinkware lines anywhere where a fan can build a complete set rather than settling for whichever single team happens to have merchandise. A front office, a fantasy league, or a group of friends who follow different AF1 teams can each grab their own team's tumbler and end up with a matched set that only differs by team graphic and color — same construction, same capacity, same price. That kind of consistency is unusual in licensed sports drinkware, where most retailers carry a handful of marquee franchises and leave the rest of the league unrepresented. It also makes drinkware one of the easier entry points into collecting AF1 gear generally — a $34.99 tumbler is a much smaller commitment than a full jersey, and it's the one item in the catalog most likely to actually get used daily rather than saved for game day.

Quick Buying FAQ

Is AF1 drinkware from Royal Retros officially licensed? Yes. Royal Retros is the official store of Arena Football One, and every AF1 tumbler on this page is licensed team and league product — not a fan-made reproduction.

What size are the tumblers? 20 ounces, one size across the line. There's no apparel-style size run on drinkware.

How many color options per team? Two or three per design — check the individual product page, since the options aren't identical across teams.

Are these made to order? Most AF1 tumbler designs print or ship on a made-to-order basis; check the individual product page for current lead time.

Shipping & returns? Standard US shipping, with returns handled through our returns page.

Gift Ideas

• The office desk upgrade — a team tumbler is the one piece of fan gear that shows up on a desk every single day, not just game day.
• The tailgate add-on — pair a tumbler with a team tee for a gift that isn't just apparel.
• The road-trip cup — stainless holds up in a cupholder far better than a plastic giveaway cup ever did.
• The reigning-champion pickup — the Nashville Kats Tumbler is the timely gift right now, fresh off the 2026 Arena Crown win.
• The full-set gift — for a fan who splits loyalties, a two- or three-team tumbler set covers more ground than a single jersey would, and it's an easy gift to scale up or down by budget.

Why Royal Retros

• The official store of Arena Football One. Royal Retros is AF1's official store, and every AF1 team is licensed — league-branded and team-branded product alike. This is the real thing, not a workaround.
• All eight active AF1 franchises covered — no other retailer stocks the complete team-by-team tumbler lineup.
• Double-wall stainless construction on every tumbler, not a printed plastic cup.
• The deepest defunct- and current-league apparel and accessory catalog anywhere — drinkware is one small corner of a much larger AF1 catalog.

Is AF1 gear from Royal Retros officially licensed?

Yes. Royal Retros is the official store of Arena Football One, and every AF1 team's product — including every tumbler on this page — is officially licensed.

Extended FAQ

Why isn't there a pint glass option right now? Royal Retros has carried AF1 pint glasses in the past, but none are currently active for sale — the tumbler line is the complete, in-stock drinkware option today.

Can I get a tumbler for a team not listed here? This page covers the eight AF1 franchises with active tumbler product plus the league-wide design. If a team isn't listed, it doesn't currently have an active tumbler SKU.

Do the tumblers come with a straw or just a lid? Check the individual product listing — lid style is specific to each design and isn't identical across all nine tumblers.

Is stainless steel actually better than a cheap insulated cup from a big-box store? The construction principle — double-wall vacuum insulation — is the same across most quality tumblers regardless of brand; what you're paying the premium for here is the officially licensed team graphic, not a different insulation technology.

Will the printed graphic fade? Hand-washing extends the life of any printed graphic significantly versus repeated dishwasher cycles — see the Care section above.

Can a tumbler go in a car cupholder? Yes — a 20-ounce double-wall tumbler is sized for a standard cupholder, which is part of why the format overtook the pint glass for everyday use.

Why do some tumblers have three colors and others only two? Color count follows each team's actual identity — some AF1 franchises use a two-color scheme and some run three, and the tumbler options mirror the real uniform colors rather than a fixed catalog rule.

Is a powder-coated tumbler better than a decal one? Generally yes for long-term durability, since the design is part of the surface rather than a separate layer that can peel — check the individual listing for which decoration method a specific design uses.

Are these tumblers dishwasher safe or hand-wash only? It varies by design — check the individual product page, and default to hand-washing if the listing doesn't specify, since that's the safer choice for any printed graphic.

Do you sell AF1 footballs too? Yes — see the Balls collection for game-quality AF1 footballs in the same eight team colorways.

Shop Related Collections

• AF1 — the full Arena Football One catalog.
• AF1 League Gear — league-branded apparel and accessories.
• AF1 Postseason — Arena Crown and playoff-specific product.
• AF1 T-Shirts — team tees to pair with your tumbler.
• Balls — AF1 game-quality footballs, same team lineup.
• Custom Jerseys — build a full AF1 kit alongside your drinkware.

Shop AF1 Drinkware at Royal Retros — Officially Licensed Team Tumblers.