I guess they had the best 90s colors if you just wanted random sports clothes.
Whoa. Sooooooooooo many neurons just connected. This is something i always knew, but didn’t know i knew.
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.
God damn. 😭
They didn’t quite pull off the magic that VGK did on their first season but they’ve been fun to watch
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.
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.
It was the style at the time
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?
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
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
Ducks fans too, besides Emilio Estaves.
Mugsy Bogues is why.
Came here to post the exact same thing
Hell yeah!
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.
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.
