It was the style at the time
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I guess they had the best 90s colors if you just wanted random sports clothes.
Purple and turquoise fucking slaps is why
Best team logo at the time too.
Lotta Rockies and Florida Marlins fans in the 90s for that reason too
Mugsy Bogues is why.
Came here to post the exact same thing
Hell yeah!
That was a big factor. Nobody could steal the ball from him, they couldn't reach that low, and his fakeouts were legendary. I didn't follow the sport at all, but was glad to have to Hornets as my nearby team. Watching him go up against giants was so fun.
I was a Hornets fan back in the 90s, but I also lived in Charlotte, so it was a gimmie. I was pissed when Shinn not only moved them to New Orleans, but took the name with them. Hornet’s Nests are a symbol of Mecklenburg county history and we just let part of that heritage walk away with Shinn. I’m glad we finally got it back.
I mean, I know that many if not most places in the US are named after European ones, but somehow Mecklenburg caught me really off guard just now
Any particular reason?
North Carolina being one of the original 13 colonies has a lot named after European/British places/people.
Nah, I can’t think of any reason tbh. Just somehow unexpected I guess because I usually only hear it in the name of the german state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Los Angeles still needs to give back our basketball team name. Fuckers.
- Minnesotan
They had the flyest colour scheme. The Orlando magic was also a popular one, but that was because it was the birth of Shaq craze. I had the shaq attack toys and the shaq fu video game
The Shaq Fu video game, goddamn, what a waste of effort
Yeah, but fashion wise the Hornets were still the most popular. I grew up in Orlando. I've been to several Magic games. I still had a kid sized Hornets uniform when I was five or six.
Im from Toronto so we were so hyped when we got our own team, and the original raptors logo and colours are still the best
That explains the Charlotte Hornets jacket my parents had.
I thought it was because they went to grad school there but you're right, that was the style of the time.
Oh damn, I had wiped this from my memory. But yeah, I used to have a Hornets hat in the 90s despite not being a basketball fan.
I figure it was based on their rad colors and hornet design.
Best team in NBA Jam.
Weird way to spell the Suns
Hornets Starter jacket in like 93.
I'm a white kid in rural Tennessee. Haha absolutely loved it.
I was a teenager in France and even there some kids had Hornets jackets. No one questioned it.
I was a teen in Colombia, didn't gave a shit about NBA, but had a Hornets cap bought in a gas station during holidays (iirc, they had a wall of NBA hats, but the Hornets was the choose one)
Whoa. Sooooooooooo many neurons just connected. This is something i always knew, but didn't know i knew.
This is so crazy. I was a kid in the 90s and got a Charlotte Hornets coat for some reason as a gift. Never even watched a basketball game.
Oh I wasn't aware of the connection but I definitely wore something like that, yeah.
Although I had a.. San Jose Sharks cap? Is that a team?
It is yeah.
I'm not American but Finns loved NHL. I didn't, but my brother and dad did.
Same with Might Ducks gear but they didn’t have an official/professional team. Tbh, the mascots for The Hornets and Might Ducks went hard, that hornet looked mad af haha
I grew up in Ohio in the 90’s and everyone was wearing Hornets or Chicago Bulls gear (head to toe) and Might Ducks hats/shirts.
Wasn't the ducks because of the Disney movie?
Yes and realistically the Hornets were because the teal/purple combo went super hard in the 90s especially in the form of outerwear.
Also grew up in Ohio in the 90's, I had two winter coats Ducks and Bulls. Hats, t-shirts, and sweatshirts were all OSU.
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Go buckeyes
Didn't it have something to do with NBA Jam?
This was especially true of women. They loved the color scheme. Nearly every woman I knew growing up were Hornets fans if they didn't follow basketball.
Note: I'm saying the colors were popular with women, not that you're a woman if you liked the colors.
Isaip has a bit about that.
I was in middle school at the time and I had a kick ass pull over hornets starter jacket. I am from upstate NY.
Same. I'm from Alaska, and having no local pro teams, I chose Charlotte for the kick ass colors and because of Larry Johnson
I too remember this being the case. I don't even like sports—never even watched a single game until adulthood—and even I was a fan then. They had a cool logo.
Edit: Hell, I didn't even know where Charlotte was in the 90s, yet still... Is there a reason behind this phenomenon?
This was my squad in NBA jam. Theory confirmed.
Larry johnson aka grandma ma. He was on family matters, doing commercials, and the logo was cool af.
Me with the Arizona Coyotes (hockey team). Never seen them play. But I dig the colors and logo more than my actual team, the Sharks.
Too bad they're the Utah Mammoth now.
They didn’t quite pull off the magic that VGK did on their first season but they’ve been fun to watch
God damn. 😭
Phoenix Suns for me. I don't even like basketball.
My sister in DC spent so much money on a Charlotte Hornets Starter Jacket.
It was her prized possession.
I am confident she has never watched a Hornets game in her life.
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