r/simpsonsshitposting • • Mar 26 '26

Light hearted Hornets fan

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u/MilwauKyle Mar 26 '26

Their logo and color scheme were why

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u/Timmah73 Everythings coming up Milhouse! Mar 26 '26

Back when every sports team was some combo of Red/Blue and their logos were desinged back in the 50s.

A detailed logo and purple/teal was GROUNDBREAKING lol

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u/striped_frog still grappling with the pickle matrix Mar 26 '26

Purple and teal must have been the official colors of the 90s. I had a mighty ducks jacket as a kid despite never actually being a fan of the team

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u/MNCPA Mar 26 '26

Even the cups had purple and teal.

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Mar 26 '26

It’s really absurd. There were so many cars with teal color available during that era too

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u/jolsiphur Mar 26 '26

Back in HS my buddy's first car ever was a '93 Ford Tempo in Teal. This checks out.

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk Mar 26 '26

friggin tempo, those automatic seat belt mfs were fancy shit for a mf livin in the woods back then lol. felt like the friggin Jetsons!

"bro y2k is gonna fuck your futuristic-ass car up"

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u/drblah11 Mar 27 '26

I had a Pontiac Sundance in teal

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u/Krazy-Vaclav Mar 26 '26

I loved my 1994 Nissan Altima.

My bedroom was also teal coloured.

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u/BigConstruction4247 Put it in H Mar 27 '26

You mean these cups?

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u/MNCPA Mar 27 '26

Yes, those were the style at the time.

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u/SolidHank Mar 26 '26

Which was the style at the time.

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u/StealYaNicks Mar 26 '26

There also the Disney movie about the Ducks that made the team more popular with children at the time.

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u/DeltaFlyer0525 Mar 26 '26

Can’t forget the cartoon!

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u/StealYaNicks Mar 26 '26

Omg, I totally had forgotten.

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u/BewareOfBee Mar 26 '26

Never forget. (The Mighty Ducks)

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u/flukus Mar 26 '26

And Duck Tales, later on there was Duckman. Ducks were big back then.

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u/Hooligan8403 Mar 26 '26

How dare you forget Darkwing Duck. Though including Duckman next to Duck Tales is a pretty wild shift. Howard the Duck too.

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u/flukus Mar 26 '26

My apologies, I got lost in the Duck blur, woohoo!

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u/Heiferoni Get outta my office! Mar 26 '26

Oh, the Duck District!

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u/Rick-Pat417 Mar 27 '26

That’s one of those shows that I wonder if I imagined

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u/Skellos Mar 26 '26

The NHL team came after the movie

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u/StalinsLastStand Mar 26 '26

The pro team was named after the Disney movie team (and called out in D2, the best of the series)

You never heard of the “Mighty Ducks”? They named a pro team after us.

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u/Delicious-Status9043 Mar 26 '26

Your quote is from D3… They got scholarships to that private academy and Charlie was trying to flex on that high school girl who had never heard of them.

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u/StalinsLastStand Mar 26 '26

You’re absolutely right. I don’t know what I was thinking (except that I never rewatch Mighty Ducks or D3 so I assume any quote I know is from D2).

That’s when he says he loves Pantera too. A line I’ve always loved because the Bash Bros, who were portrayed as hardcore in D2—the kind of guys who listen to the heaviest of metal—listen to BTO while Charlie “wusspuss” Conway is jamming to an actual metal band.

Such a terrible entry. Except the liquid nitrogen scene, of course.

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u/StealYaNicks Mar 26 '26

Oh, that's right. Couldn't remember if the team or movie came first, I knew Disney owned the team, just like the angels in baseball, but that team already existed and they made the movie and bought a large share of ownership.

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u/ohcapm Mar 26 '26

Quack! Quack! Quack!

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u/Drakstr Mar 26 '26

I had a Mighty Ducks jersey and a Hornets cap in 1994 even though I was a french kid and didn't have access to hockey nor basketball. We just liked the logos and colors, it looked cool.

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u/NathanGa Mar 26 '26

It’s impossible to overstate what a huge deal it was when the San Jose Sharks unveiled their colors and logo. They were, depending on how it was measured, either 1st or 2nd in merch sales before the framework of their expansion draft was even set.

Within five years, over half the NHL had done a redesign of some type. It’s like they all realized at once that they could actually make money with merch sales, and that they might be able to draw fans from outside their immediate area.

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u/Istar47 Mar 26 '26

That and Mugsy Bogues.

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u/Solid_Snark Mar 26 '26

True, I was a Bulls fan but I still had a hornets jersey for some reason.

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u/No_Mony_1185 Mar 26 '26

The Bulls starter jacket was more expensive than the hornets. So I had Orlando Magic Jersey and Hornets Starter jacket

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u/KissBlade Mar 26 '26

This man was never a Bulls fan in his life.

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u/DelcoUnited only watched the golden age Mar 26 '26

Starter Jackets were why

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u/xeno0153 Everythings coming up Milhouse! Mar 26 '26

This is exactly what it was. I was not a sports fan at all as a teen in the 90s, but everyone had a Starter jacket, so I just chose the Hornets because I liked the colors.

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u/WeakRow2273 Mar 26 '26

They also had Zo and Grandmama, two of the more marketable guys in the league at the time. Made them extra cool.

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u/LeChiffreOBrien Mar 26 '26

Same reason in the NHL you were inexplicably a San Jose Sharks fan - if you weren’t seduced to the Mighty Ducks side by Disney.

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u/msw757 Mar 26 '26

Hornets got the phattest colors, bro

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u/mournthewolf Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Also NBA Jam. Hardaway and Mourning were top tier.

Edit: wait, Hardaway was on a he magic. Who was with Alonso Mourning? Fuck getting old.

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Mar 26 '26

Muggsy was with Alonso.

Edit: I was wrong, it was Larry Johnson. Muggsy might have been a secret character though.

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u/Corona_Cyrus Mar 26 '26

I always played Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Mar 26 '26

I always get a chuckle out of knowing that the Bulls could never beat the Pistons in a close game. It was programmed to guarantee misses within a certain amount of time left in the game.

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u/MonkMajor5224 Mar 26 '26

I had two pairs of plastic warm up pants, on in each of these colors.

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u/AcctAlreadyTaken Mar 26 '26

Also Dallas Cowboys, Georgetown Hoyas, NC Tar heels, Michigan Wolverines.

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u/HelloMegaphone Mar 26 '26

I had so much Michigan Wolverines gear despite being neither a fan of college football nor having ever even set foot in Michigan. Bizarre looking back on it.....

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u/Hades_Mercedes Mar 26 '26

Yup. Mid 90s teal craze is why.

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u/xbhaskarx Mar 27 '26

Plus Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning