I guess they had the best 90s colors if you just wanted random sports clothes.
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.
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?
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
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)
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
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
The Shaq Fu video game, goddamn, what a waste of effort
It was the style at the time
Didn’t it have something to do with NBA Jam?
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.
Mugsy Bogues is why.
Hell yeah!
Came here to post the exact same thing
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
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.
Hornets Starter jacket in like 93.
I’m a white kid in rural Tennessee. Haha absolutely loved it.
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.
Los Angeles still needs to give back our basketball team name. Fuckers.
- Minnesotan
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.
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
