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The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs would like a word.
Not to mention the Birmingham Sod Poodles.
The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs would like a word.
The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs would like a word.
The story behind the fighting artichokes is really good, though. It was a student protest. The school made the mistake of cutting academic programs while simultaneously expanding the athletics program, while also hosting a student naming poll to name the athletics teams. A student body that was presently miffed about academics cuts, fired back naming the team the Fighting Artichokes.The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs would like a word.
Forgot about those Christmas trees!Yeah it worked and is a good brand and name today. At the time though it sucked, and their unis looked like christmas trees. My gf at the time bought me an authentic jersey and I have it in my closet to this day. Never wore it. Not once.
Forgot about those Christmas trees!
To me, Dylan Guenther is an early Christmas gift.Ugh, speaking of, we lost both Garland and Bunting. Will not be such a Merry Christmas this year.
To me, Dylan Guenther is an early Christmas gift.
Those are the Limp Bizkit of jerseys. The 90's were a dumpster fire of bad ideas.
Here's what the Nordiques were to wear had they not moved to Colorado.
You mean the Portland Sea Dogs stole the two best nicknames for a day (or two).
Minor league baseball struck gold with temporary rebrands. Teams tip their hats to local culture and make a killing moving merchandise. I went to a West Michigan Whitecaps game for their one day appearance as the Beer City Bung Hammers. They hooked me in and I left with a hat and t-shirt.
As did Buck O'Neil.Independent league team the KC T-Bones, who already had a great name with ties to KCs historic beef industry, have partnered with the Negro League Museum and are now known as the KC Monarchs. Jackie Robinson played for the Monarchs, but you probably knew that.
^Just brainstorming her,e, that would make for an interesting scene in a historical fiction series, a la "the man in the high castle"...what if baseball had remained segregated into the 1980s, after the dawn of cable tv, and been covered by a network like BET?
I went to game 1 of that series.The Pirates never would have won the 1979 World Series.
That's right around when I became a Pirates fan. There was a cable station with Pirates games on aired here in the mid to late 70s. The intro had players pretending to be in a band playing the intro song "You're in for a thrill, Pirates Base-Balllll yeah!" Willie Stargell, Dave Parker, Omar Moreno, Kent Tekulve, John Candalaria, Garner, Foli, Madlock....ah the memories when baseball was still fun to watch.I went to game 1 of that series.
Now we need to take down the Jets names in the building and cut ties with that franchise. They got their team back.
Tell that to the Atlanta ThrashersThe history is the history.
The history is the history.
The history is the history.
I look at it this way, if it happened when the team was in Winnipeg, it's Winnipeg's history, it belongs to those fans. If it happened here in AZ, or in Atlanta, same.