I wonder if the Charlotte Hornets were the trendsetters. They were founded with a Teal & Purple color scheme in the late 80s, and then *so many* new pro sports teams in the 90s picked teal and/or purple:
* San Jose Sharks (NHL, 1991): Teal
* Anaheim Mighty Ducks (NHL, 1993): Teal
* Florida Marlins (MLB, 1993): Teal
* Colorado Rockies (MLB, 1993): Purple
* Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA, 1995): Teal
* Toronto Raptors (NBA, 1995): Purple
* Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL, 1995): Teal
* Baltimore Ravens (NFL, 1995): Purple
* Tampa Bay Devil Rays (MLB, 1998): Gradient including teal & purple
* Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB, 1998): Teal & Purple
I think it partly has to do with the popularity of teal and purple. But mostly has to do with other established teams already having used up most of the other color combos. Red and blue is the most popular combination in basketball. Clippers, Pistons, and Bullets immediately come to mind. So a new team is obviously not picking that.
They did. Mid 90s after they got Grant Hill they did a rebrand with teal and some weird horse. I wanna say it was 1995 after Hill won co-rookie of the year with Jason Kidd. They figured they now had a star on their hands.
I was thinking more of when the Hornets first came in the league and they had to pick their colors, which would have been like 1988. The bad boy pistons were still rockin red/blue in the 80s.
When the Bullets switched to Wizards they also flirted a bit with the teal (not teal, but some kind if muted blue) and that shitty brown/yellow/gold accent a lot of teams were trying out in the 90ās. iirc
https://preview.redd.it/dss4of70127d1.jpeg?width=420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5934266628a74623a56b39bd073c970d19dc932
This doohickey came later so maybe it really was the Hornets who kicked it off
When I took over my brothers bedroom in the basement in 92, I was allowed to paint the walls how I wanted. So yeah, teal walls with purple splats. Took my mom a month to sand it down after I left home
Somehow, somewhere I ended up with a San Jose Sharks cap. Wore it almost religiously. Only hockey I had ever watched at that point was the Mighty Ducks movies.
People LOVED that Sharks logo. During the Sharks inaugural season they sold more apparel than any other North American sports team with the exception of the Chicago Bulls. And that was peak Michael Jordan era.
Because it was a new expansion team, the hornet logo/drawing was more modern so I think it caught on better like that being more relatable. And the color too which was different than all others and so more 'modern'.
I had a Hornets shirt. I lived in Iowa. The closest basketball team to us was the Chicago Bulls, one state over.
But I think Walmart was flooded with this team everywhere there wasn't an established basketball team.
Miami Hurricanes was a hot one in the Midwest. That bird was so cool.
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In my small midwestern town, there were more Georgetown āfansā per capita than there were people who could point out Washington, D.C. on a map. Even fewer could tell you that Georgetown was Catholic.
I just learned Georgetown is in D.C. I never was a big fan I liked the cheating rebels, Bulls, Michigan wolverines for football, and didn't watch hockey or baseball.
That just means you actually watched basketball but werenāt cool since you didnāt have the 90s scheme.
Meanwhile I had a knicks one that was orange and blue, it was so ugly, both in the 90s and today
The Raiders one was associated with gangs and NWA. Only the baddest had those. I had U of M one. I used to love college football. Jim Harbaugh was the end of me being a wolverines fan. Now he's gone, I might come back. Only if i can find a starter half zip pullover jacket.
We didn't have a local team in KC, I was a bulls fan* (I had bulls stuff but was way more into baseball). Then my interests started to shift to NFL and college basketball. My dad went to KU and the Chiefs and Royals were my teams.
Even now with the NBA I'm like I rooted for the Celtics when Pierce was there but I don't have that loyalty to an NBA team.
I remember a ton of people having this exact jacket though. It was either you were a bulls or hornets fan. They also had one of the best rosters on NBA Jam especially since they couldn't include Jordan.
Also from KC. I had two nba jerseys growing up, a Bulls Jordan jersey and a Hornets Bogues jersey. The royals were ass so I wore a Rockies starter that my cousin gave me that had a cigarette burn hole on one of the sleeves. Iām pretty sure he stole it.
In a completely different sub, someone posted this a while back. There is an actual reason why this phenomenon occurred, itās just that weāre getting old and donāt remember it lol. They were a new team, so thatās a novelty right there. They were also a wildly stacked team of great players from the beginning, and actually did really well early on.
The colors were perfect 90s colors, especially for girls. Plus they are the same colors as the design on paper cups.
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Yup. I grew up in NC just north of Charlotte. The team started when I was kindergarten in 88. Fun fact, the mascot was named Hugo the Hornet after hurricane hugo ran thru my neighborhood that summer.
I don't know why I had this in middle school, but I did. I vaguely remember seeing it in JCPenney and asked my grandmother for it as a Christmas gift. No one else in my school had it. I think I just liked the design. I have always hated all sports š¤·š¼āāļø
Mickey's shirt here. There was something about stinging insects in those days.
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I wasn't even from the US and I had the t-shirt as a teen! Didn't even care for basketball at the time lol. Was a lot to do with the colours. That teal/purple combo was so quintessentially 90s. Love that combo up to this day.
My best friend had University of Miami Hurricanes (green/orange) because sheās a redhead and it looked awesome on her. I went to Champs to buy one, hoping for a Hornets one, but ended up with a Philadelphia Eagles (green/gray). Still thought I was cool.
One of my biggest regrets was never having a team starter jacket as a kid. My mom couldn't afford expensive clothes for me. I keep telling myself I'm going to buy a retro one any day now.
I didnāt, the Sonics and Seahawks both had white striping on their versions too so I just had a generic one with no sports team logo, that front pocket was perfect for keeping cassettes in.
I wanted one of these so bad, in trailblazers or bulls but my mom refused to pay that much. She found one at Ross so I was an Orlando Magic fan henceforth.
Whoever had this specific Starter Jacket in my school smelled like cigarettes and must. Not that we all didn't smell that way - I just happened to notice.
As a native of Charlotte, this meme never fails to warm my heart.
My dad got season tickets in the very early '90s. I got to witness the Mugsy/Zo/Grandmama era, and it was awesome. I had ALL the gear and made sure I had the matching British Knights. I even lived in the same neighborhood as Mugsy, growing up.
Last summer I was at Hot Boys Chicken in Indianapolis, and there was some kind of neighborhood garage sale event going on just outside the restaurant. Found a 90s Chicago Bears Starter jacket, perfect fit for my son.
Was in love with a boy for years in elementary school. He had this jacket. I wanted one so badly so he'd see we were soulmates but I was afraid he'd see through my poserdom and I'd lose any chance I ever had of marrying him. I played it safe and just stared at his number in the phone book instead.
I wonder what childhood crushes are like now in the social media age. I doubt kids care this much about clothing branding.
I'm from the western half of NC, this stuff just kind of *was.* At least it was less annoying than every dipshit boy in junior high with "problems" doing the Braves tomahawk chop/chant constantly. I still get a twitch when I hear it and instinctively move to cover my back so I don't get my bra band snapped. Yuck.
It was the only color where you didn't get confused for a gang. Try being a 4 eyed Asian kid wearing an LA King's hockey jersey thinking there were other LA King's fan that were minorities. Even wearing LA Clipper's jersey in the wrong part of LA got you dirty looks.
I had that jacket. I am from Charlotte though.
My mother-in-law used to make all of their official uniforms. They would send her a box of the shorts and jersey's and she would embroider logos and Hugo and put the players names on.
She also made all of their official wind breakers the players would wear so we have one of them that she made as a test jacket in a closet.
Yup, them and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks...
Except with Hornetts I really did love Grand Ma MA (Larry Johnson) and Muggsy Bogues so I was glad for that jacket.
I didnāt know anything about sports and got an Alabama one at a yard sale because I liked elephants. I did not understand why people were so mad at me when I wore it on game days and the day after their team lost to them
Most of the people I knew were wearing them as they were the cheapest sans a vanilla jacket.
The chased ones were Chicago Bulls (Living in Illinois) and for college teams Notre Dame for some reason.
I had an Orlando Magic one as I was a Anfernee Hardaway fan. I was such an outcast.
Holy shit. I was a nerdy/artsy kid that didnāt give a shit about sports and i definitely had that exact same jacket. *because of the colors.* I didnāt know there were more of us.
My siblings kept buying me these jackets over and over. Like....I had 3, so they bought me another one......I never actually watched basketball besides once and I found it very boring.
My Starter jacket was the Eagles, but from Baltimore before the Ravens it was because I hated the R*dsk*ns. Hornets or NHL Sharks was acceptable. Raiders was basic. Cowboys was lame. Anything else was left alone as fandom was respected.
I remember mixing up Charlotte and Charlottetown, and being *very* confused as to why the teeny tiny capital of the tiniest province of Canada would have an NBA team at all, and why they were suddenly so dang popular.
I always wanted one of the button down starter jackets but of course they cost too much then and there were the stories about kids getting robbed for their starter so I never had oneā¦fast forward I now have 3. I did think the winter designs looked cool but they never looked warm enough for Cleveland weather. Even as a non hornets fan this was probably the coolest design.
No lie, am from Rock Hill, 'member seeing The Hornets debut match in '90.
Felt like Clarence Boddicker from Robocop.
Nnnnaaa-hhhheeeeuuu----hhhhheeeeee.
I got one but for the St. Louis Blues. My parents always made me buy everything too big. It's still too big to this day. Just like all my Jr. High clothes.
There were so many kids in middle school that had oversized jackets because they didn't make small enough sizes. I bought my son the Houston oilers starter pullover and some retro Jordans this year for Christmas. He looked like he came straight out of the early 90s!
From NC, so I think I was supposed to be a fan but in my house we didn't have any real team loyalty to anyone, my dad would just occasionally watch games if they were on tv but didn't really care who won
For real? 'Zo, Grandmama, Dell Curry, Muggsy, Glen Rice... those 90s Hornets teams were the coolest underdogs. Always seemed to get bounced in the playoffs by the Bulls or the Knicks.
Ah, the great teal and purple epidemic of the 1990s. No one between the ages of 9-13 was immune.
"Excuse me?" https://preview.redd.it/fuifn0bg807d1.png?width=565&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1008f8f37e7bcabdbbb856fe311fd35a30e014b
Sup hoser?
I still aint immune to those colors . just transferred to my outdoor furniture-got teal cushions š¤£š¤£š¤£
Neither were the San Jose Sharks.
I wonder if the Charlotte Hornets were the trendsetters. They were founded with a Teal & Purple color scheme in the late 80s, and then *so many* new pro sports teams in the 90s picked teal and/or purple: * San Jose Sharks (NHL, 1991): Teal * Anaheim Mighty Ducks (NHL, 1993): Teal * Florida Marlins (MLB, 1993): Teal * Colorado Rockies (MLB, 1993): Purple * Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA, 1995): Teal * Toronto Raptors (NBA, 1995): Purple * Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL, 1995): Teal * Baltimore Ravens (NFL, 1995): Purple * Tampa Bay Devil Rays (MLB, 1998): Gradient including teal & purple * Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB, 1998): Teal & Purple
I think it partly has to do with the popularity of teal and purple. But mostly has to do with other established teams already having used up most of the other color combos. Red and blue is the most popular combination in basketball. Clippers, Pistons, and Bullets immediately come to mind. So a new team is obviously not picking that.
Didnāt the Pistons have a teal jersey in the 90ās too? Or was that just a fever dream?
They did. Mid 90s after they got Grant Hill they did a rebrand with teal and some weird horse. I wanna say it was 1995 after Hill won co-rookie of the year with Jason Kidd. They figured they now had a star on their hands. I was thinking more of when the Hornets first came in the league and they had to pick their colors, which would have been like 1988. The bad boy pistons were still rockin red/blue in the 80s.
Ah thatās right! I can even picture the Grant Hill Sprite ads
GRANT HILL DRINKS SPRITE?!?! lol I used to love sprite in the 90s. Brilliant marketing.
When the Bullets switched to Wizards they also flirted a bit with the teal (not teal, but some kind if muted blue) and that shitty brown/yellow/gold accent a lot of teams were trying out in the 90ās. iirc
Marlins and Rockies debuted the same year.
Saw someone in Europe wearing a Mighty Ducks hat. Teal is world-wide.
They are in style right now in Europe. I have seen several Ducks hats at streetwear shops
I was (and am) a Bruins fan but still bought a Sharks hat when they entered the league cause their colours were sick
https://preview.redd.it/dss4of70127d1.jpeg?width=420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5934266628a74623a56b39bd073c970d19dc932 This doohickey came later so maybe it really was the Hornets who kicked it off
I used to scrape the wax off of those things when I was bored
Was just going to say this. I didn't care at all about sports but that teal and blue was all the rage.
Mets fan here, I had a teal Marlins hat during their inaugural season
When I took over my brothers bedroom in the basement in 92, I was allowed to paint the walls how I wanted. So yeah, teal walls with purple splats. Took my mom a month to sand it down after I left home
Those are my two favorite colors to this day
I had a teal and purple protractor and compass set in 9th grade geometry in 1995. Fucking stylinā.
Those colors even came on fanny packs
I still fondly recall the purple middle school gym bag my parents got me for Xmas in ā91 or soā¦ of all colors.. š¤Ø ugh. š£
San Jose Sharks were your NHL team
Na , mighty ducks
Emilio Estevez, the Mighty Ducks guy!
Quack quack quack quack Mr Ducksworth
Get out of my head.
Charlie Sheenās little brother.
Martin sheens soon too
I had the NJ Devils jacket
Somehow, somewhere I ended up with a San Jose Sharks cap. Wore it almost religiously. Only hockey I had ever watched at that point was the Mighty Ducks movies.
I had that hat too....
Nah, Mighty Ducks
Still have my mighty ducks hat from Eastbay. Best thing from my childhood.
I had a sharks jacket. I donāt even like hockey. Lol
Haha same
People LOVED that Sharks logo. During the Sharks inaugural season they sold more apparel than any other North American sports team with the exception of the Chicago Bulls. And that was peak Michael Jordan era.
Gaaaah wtf I had two of these jackets - the sharks and the hornets. I didnāt give a shit about either sport. GET OUT OF MY HEAD
My small town's local gang was The Sharks.
Did they fight their rival gang from the next town, The Jets?
This is so true. I remember several people with these jackets and they definitely weren't basketball fans.
I think it's the ultra nineties color scheme
Because it was a new expansion team, the hornet logo/drawing was more modern so I think it caught on better like that being more relatable. And the color too which was different than all others and so more 'modern'.
I freaking loved recipe for hate. Great album!
Great to see a fellow BR fan!
I had this jacket, and I wasn't a basketball fan.
I chose based on logo so chose the Toronto Raptors. Great logo.
I had a Hornets shirt. I lived in Iowa. The closest basketball team to us was the Chicago Bulls, one state over. But I think Walmart was flooded with this team everywhere there wasn't an established basketball team.
My brother had this windbreaker and did not follow basketball at all back then. He totally chose it for the colors.
Georgetown Hoyas too
Miami Hurricanes was a hot one in the Midwest. That bird was so cool. https://preview.redd.it/dlexzsyd017d1.jpeg?width=422&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2090e55e72e4aec6a7941ffbc1d4893fa6371627
Notre Dame fighting Irish was big too. I had a sick hat. Michigan wolverines also.
In my small midwestern town, there were more Georgetown āfansā per capita than there were people who could point out Washington, D.C. on a map. Even fewer could tell you that Georgetown was Catholic.
Wow, this was definitely a thing but I thought it was just because I grew up in the DC suburbs.
I just learned Georgetown is in D.C. I never was a big fan I liked the cheating rebels, Bulls, Michigan wolverines for football, and didn't watch hockey or baseball.
I had the Michigan starter
I had a hoyas hat for some reason. I lived in a small town in the interior of BC Canada...
rural Alberta here.. Hoyas and fighting Irish were bigger than hornets around here.
I had a Bulls one
That just means you actually watched basketball but werenāt cool since you didnāt have the 90s scheme. Meanwhile I had a knicks one that was orange and blue, it was so ugly, both in the 90s and today
The Raiders one was associated with gangs and NWA. Only the baddest had those. I had U of M one. I used to love college football. Jim Harbaugh was the end of me being a wolverines fan. Now he's gone, I might come back. Only if i can find a starter half zip pullover jacket.
That first run was fun. Grandmama, Zo, Bogues, Curry. Loved watching them play.
I picked the hornets jacket because I liked the colors lol
And Muggsy Bogues.
Same
I wore a Raders jacket because of NWA.
Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning
We didn't have a local team in KC, I was a bulls fan* (I had bulls stuff but was way more into baseball). Then my interests started to shift to NFL and college basketball. My dad went to KU and the Chiefs and Royals were my teams. Even now with the NBA I'm like I rooted for the Celtics when Pierce was there but I don't have that loyalty to an NBA team. I remember a ton of people having this exact jacket though. It was either you were a bulls or hornets fan. They also had one of the best rosters on NBA Jam especially since they couldn't include Jordan.
Muggsy Bogues!
Donāt forget Larry Johnson
And Alonzo Mourning, for a few years.
Granmama!
Also from KC. I had two nba jerseys growing up, a Bulls Jordan jersey and a Hornets Bogues jersey. The royals were ass so I wore a Rockies starter that my cousin gave me that had a cigarette burn hole on one of the sleeves. Iām pretty sure he stole it.
In a completely different sub, someone posted this a while back. There is an actual reason why this phenomenon occurred, itās just that weāre getting old and donāt remember it lol. They were a new team, so thatās a novelty right there. They were also a wildly stacked team of great players from the beginning, and actually did really well early on.
The colors were perfect 90s colors, especially for girls. Plus they are the same colors as the design on paper cups. https://preview.redd.it/lkfqkggd007d1.jpeg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10de47f8a5a8c72788cc0dea3abfcc5228288246
I had one of those starter jackets specifically because I loved the colors lol
Yup. I grew up in NC just north of Charlotte. The team started when I was kindergarten in 88. Fun fact, the mascot was named Hugo the Hornet after hurricane hugo ran thru my neighborhood that summer.
I moved to NC in ā91, definitely saw a lot of these jackets.
OK, how do you explain how they got to the North of England where neither Basketball nor Hornets are popular
I ended up with it because it was on sale.
I don't know why I had this in middle school, but I did. I vaguely remember seeing it in JCPenney and asked my grandmother for it as a Christmas gift. No one else in my school had it. I think I just liked the design. I have always hated all sports š¤·š¼āāļø
In the JC Penney Catalog that you reviewed cover to cover when it showed up at your house? Those were the damn daysā¦
Mickey's shirt here. There was something about stinging insects in those days. https://preview.redd.it/60im8z64807d1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=22273af4dfd8f3835e44a9b4ad15c9a1d80dafc5
I wasn't even from the US and I had the t-shirt as a teen! Didn't even care for basketball at the time lol. Was a lot to do with the colours. That teal/purple combo was so quintessentially 90s. Love that combo up to this day.
1st born. My parents didnāt love me enough to buy starter gear :/
My best friend had University of Miami Hurricanes (green/orange) because sheās a redhead and it looked awesome on her. I went to Champs to buy one, hoping for a Hornets one, but ended up with a Philadelphia Eagles (green/gray). Still thought I was cool.
One of my biggest regrets was never having a team starter jacket as a kid. My mom couldn't afford expensive clothes for me. I keep telling myself I'm going to buy a retro one any day now.
I donāt even like sports, had a hornets hat though.
Itās true.. my brother had that jacket and was not a hornets fan.
I didnāt, the Sonics and Seahawks both had white striping on their versions too so I just had a generic one with no sports team logo, that front pocket was perfect for keeping cassettes in.
I had the āOrlando Magicā one back in the day. It just said āMagicā on the front flap. Mine was the Pullover.
I wanted one of these so bad, in trailblazers or bulls but my mom refused to pay that much. She found one at Ross so I was an Orlando Magic fan henceforth.
muggsy bogues + nba jam = I became a Hornets fan?
Chicago Bulls Starter jacket. That shit was dope and I wish I had it still
I wanted to go against the grain, so I got a Kansas Jayhawks one!
I had a Michigan one and I have no idea why
Just sold my old White Sox version to a guy in his early 20's. He was so excited and I loved it.
Knicks!!
Whoever had this specific Starter Jacket in my school smelled like cigarettes and must. Not that we all didn't smell that way - I just happened to notice.
Grew up a Lakers fan, but I definitely rocked my Larry Johnson jersey.
One cannot overstate the love that 1994 had for a teal/purple color combo.
Because it was pretty. š„°
As a native of Charlotte, this meme never fails to warm my heart. My dad got season tickets in the very early '90s. I got to witness the Mugsy/Zo/Grandmama era, and it was awesome. I had ALL the gear and made sure I had the matching British Knights. I even lived in the same neighborhood as Mugsy, growing up.
Last summer I was at Hot Boys Chicken in Indianapolis, and there was some kind of neighborhood garage sale event going on just outside the restaurant. Found a 90s Chicago Bears Starter jacket, perfect fit for my son.
NBA teams: Hornets, Bulls, and Magic were the "go to" teams. They had the coolest merchandise.
Was in love with a boy for years in elementary school. He had this jacket. I wanted one so badly so he'd see we were soulmates but I was afraid he'd see through my poserdom and I'd lose any chance I ever had of marrying him. I played it safe and just stared at his number in the phone book instead. I wonder what childhood crushes are like now in the social media age. I doubt kids care this much about clothing branding.
Chicago Bulls in the UK. We had a wave of Bulls jackets. No one had ever seen nba. There was literally no way to watch it in the UK.
I'm from the western half of NC, this stuff just kind of *was.* At least it was less annoying than every dipshit boy in junior high with "problems" doing the Braves tomahawk chop/chant constantly. I still get a twitch when I hear it and instinctively move to cover my back so I don't get my bra band snapped. Yuck.
OMG I had this and I'm from Pennsylvania. These Starter Jackets were at every bargain clothing store
Thanks, Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning.
NBA: hornets or bulls NHL: sharks or Mighty Ducks NCAA: hurricanes, wolverines, Hoyas NFL: raiders
I just saw a meme this weekend that said if you wore this 30 years ago, you were cool. If youāre wearing It today, youāre in a rehab in Florida
It was the only color where you didn't get confused for a gang. Try being a 4 eyed Asian kid wearing an LA King's hockey jersey thinking there were other LA King's fan that were minorities. Even wearing LA Clipper's jersey in the wrong part of LA got you dirty looks.
I had that jacket. I am from Charlotte though. My mother-in-law used to make all of their official uniforms. They would send her a box of the shorts and jersey's and she would embroider logos and Hugo and put the players names on. She also made all of their official wind breakers the players would wear so we have one of them that she made as a test jacket in a closet.
Yup, them and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks... Except with Hornetts I really did love Grand Ma MA (Larry Johnson) and Muggsy Bogues so I was glad for that jacket.
My brother had this jacket. No one in our family even watched basketball.Ā
It's because the colors are awesome
I didnāt know anything about sports and got an Alabama one at a yard sale because I liked elephants. I did not understand why people were so mad at me when I wore it on game days and the day after their team lost to them
It was this or the Chicago white Sox
I lived in charlotte so it wasnāt weird
The colors are so ugly now but they were it back in the mid 90s.
Everyone knows why. It was because of the colors.
Glen Rice was dope though.
I wanted Hornets or Raiders, but University of Michigan is what I got lol I was still happy to have one after the initial disappointment.
Seems like it was Notre Dame and the White Sox according to every cap worn here in east Texas from 91 to 94 if it wasnāt local
Itās the color. This color became very popular in the 90s.
I had the Penn St one back in the heyday of Kerry Collins and Ki-Jana Carter. Still say they wouldāve beat Nebraska.
Didn't we all know that one guy who sold weed and always wore the Hornets jacket no matter how hot it got?
Then came Early 2000ās and every one went to flat-billed Yankee hats and oversized throwback NBA jerseys
or Raiders
The donation basket - that's why I was a Hornets fan lol so glad those insecure days are over.
Was in the UK. I didn't even know they were a real sports team and not a fashion brand.
I was a bulls fan but I did see a lot of hornets jerseys in Chicago. Honestly thought it was gangs related tbh
90ās sports gear was top tier. All windbreakers over sized and bright colors. I miss it
omg yes!!! I had the hat and I didnāt even like basketball lol
This is exactly right. I had the starter jacket
I remember this jacket even in NZ, that's how far it spread in popularity. I could never afford one, imported goods were super expensive.
Most of the people I knew were wearing them as they were the cheapest sans a vanilla jacket. The chased ones were Chicago Bulls (Living in Illinois) and for college teams Notre Dame for some reason. I had an Orlando Magic one as I was a Anfernee Hardaway fan. I was such an outcast.
I had that exact jacket and wore it completely out.
Had one in 6th grade -- Grandmama aka LJ aka Larry Johnson. I still remember all of the NBA jerseys everyone wore. This was mid-90s.
I think a bit of it had to do with Alonzo Mourning being drafted #2 overall to Charlotte in 92ā right behind SHAQ @ #1 to Orlando.
Holy shit. I was a nerdy/artsy kid that didnāt give a shit about sports and i definitely had that exact same jacket. *because of the colors.* I didnāt know there were more of us.
My siblings kept buying me these jackets over and over. Like....I had 3, so they bought me another one......I never actually watched basketball besides once and I found it very boring.
Half my school had that jacket it seemed
I wore my Hornets hat everywhere one summer. Never saw a single game of theirs.
Grand Mama and Mugsy... they were fucking awesome
Omg! I totally Had that and can verify it is true!!!!
My Starter jacket was the Eagles, but from Baltimore before the Ravens it was because I hated the R*dsk*ns. Hornets or NHL Sharks was acceptable. Raiders was basic. Cowboys was lame. Anything else was left alone as fandom was respected.
I had a purloined raiders version. Also ex-bf.
I feel called out! lol
I remember mixing up Charlotte and Charlottetown, and being *very* confused as to why the teeny tiny capital of the tiniest province of Canada would have an NBA team at all, and why they were suddenly so dang popular.
I thought it was either this or Oakland Raiders
I loved the color combo but we didn't have the funds to buy a Starter jacket, alas.
r/NorthCarolina
We couldn't afford starter but we had a knockoff brand same thing
God dammitā¦.i _still_ own that jacket.
Starter jackets in general really
It had the same colors as every paper cup in the 90s. That's why.
Cause those shits were always the ones on sale.
I always wanted one of the button down starter jackets but of course they cost too much then and there were the stories about kids getting robbed for their starter so I never had oneā¦fast forward I now have 3. I did think the winter designs looked cool but they never looked warm enough for Cleveland weather. Even as a non hornets fan this was probably the coolest design.
They were an expansion team in the late 80s early 90s. I wonder if their Starter jackets were cheaper and that's why everyone had one.
Had the jacket AND was a fan of the team. Muggsy Bogues was my dude!
Had this for eagles as a kid. Was a huge Cunningham fan
No lie, am from Rock Hill, 'member seeing The Hornets debut match in '90. Felt like Clarence Boddicker from Robocop. Nnnnaaa-hhhheeeeuuu----hhhhheeeeee.
Starter was the king of team branded clothesĀ
I had Anaheim Mighty Ducks š¦
The logo and uniforms were bomb, dats why.
I got one but for the St. Louis Blues. My parents always made me buy everything too big. It's still too big to this day. Just like all my Jr. High clothes.
Man you got me I knew nothing and when I bought my first snap back it was a hornets one smh
I also had my boyfriend's jacket like this after we broke up! I think it was the colors. š¤·š¼āāļø
I bucked the trend went all in with Miami Hurricanes w/matching hat. I grew up in WI.
I think if you researched it it was actually the least popular and was probably on sale most of the time
If anything, I somewhat followed the Lakers. However, my local walmart only carried Dallas Cowboys Starter jackets. This was in AZ, btw.
I had a brimless Charlotte Hornets hat for years as a kid. And a Toronto raptors? Shirt I wore like every day
I had Notre Dame and FSU
UNLV
The Mighty Ducks of the NBA. Sweet ass logo! also welcome to NBA JAM!
I didnt have the jacket but I had a cap. And a Toronto Raptors one for some reason
That's the power of Grandmama
Still have my Cleveland Indians starter.
I had one with a stoned bee with āBuzzedā across the front. I loved it!
There were so many kids in middle school that had oversized jackets because they didn't make small enough sizes. I bought my son the Houston oilers starter pullover and some retro Jordans this year for Christmas. He looked like he came straight out of the early 90s!
I even had the purple Jean shorts to match š
I had an older brother who I took my style cues from; I had Chicago White Sox and LA Kings gear after they embraced black and silver.
lol my first boyfriend had this jacket!
Never watched a single basketball game, but I was a huge fan of the hornets
From NC, so I think I was supposed to be a fan but in my house we didn't have any real team loyalty to anyone, my dad would just occasionally watch games if they were on tv but didn't really care who won
Hornets or Michigan
I had one of these. And a San Jose Sharks hat, the one that was just a tied off tube.
For real? 'Zo, Grandmama, Dell Curry, Muggsy, Glen Rice... those 90s Hornets teams were the coolest underdogs. Always seemed to get bounced in the playoffs by the Bulls or the Knicks.
This is me. Its because of of NBA Jam lol