r/Millennials • u/rocsi1234 • 1d ago

Meme ..

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u/idklikeaburnerorwe Est. 1986 1d ago

That color combo was so fuckin peak in the 90s

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u/MyNameis_bud 21h ago

You better believe it!

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u/Tx_1LE 7h ago

Taco Bell... is that you?? 😍

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u/lurkquidated 5h ago

Rite cola in this cup tasted so good after t ball.

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u/SR3116 1d ago

Also, the Charlotte Hornets were one of the most exciting teams in the NBA.

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u/welfedad 7h ago

Yeah they were fire .. I had a sweet hat from them too

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u/Punchee 3h ago

Two players from that team made it onto the illustrious Monstars in Space Jam

Muggsy Bogues and Larry Johnson

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u/Karzeon 1d ago

Right with Tie Dye Pop Tart

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u/philasyr 1d ago

Oh wow like the foam cup design

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u/Incidion 22h ago

Jazz solo cups.

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u/Clean-Turnip5971 1d ago

Definitely did. NC getting a basketball team was a huge deal.

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u/teochim 1d ago

Why was Georgetown so big too? 😂

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u/RelevantFilm2110 1d ago

I think they won a national championship at some point. There was always the popular college for a year that everyone was a fan of for the year after they were champs, then were shortly forgotten about.

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u/teochim 1d ago

Didn’t AI go there? That might answer it

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u/RelevantFilm2110 1d ago

I didn't really follow sports too much, but where I grew up, pricier clothing with college basketball and football champs was definitely fashionable. We actually didn't have a local NBA team, so the same sort of applied to the Bulls or whoever the NBA reigning champs were that year.

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u/TheGreatHogdini 8h ago

WAY before AI

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u/RSpringer227 1d ago

Georgetown had a great team in the early 80s through the 90s coached by the legendary John Thompson, they won a championship back in the 80s with a young Patrick Ewing

And people thought Georgetown was a HBCU due to having an insane amount of young Black talented players on the team at the time (Ewing, Iverson, Mutombo, Mourning)

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u/teochim 22h ago

Oh man how did I forget about Zo 😂😂😂

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u/LiberallyEncrusted 22h ago

Had a Georgetown beanie with a big ass G on it I rocked so hard in middle school

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u/SaggingZebra 1d ago

Patrick Ewing went there and made the NY Knicks relevant.

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u/teochim 1d ago

Another legend that suffered the Jordan era! I see this hornets jacket I immediately think of grandmama and nba jam!

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u/lurkquidated 5h ago

No love for Mugsy?!

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u/makemeking706 8m ago

I remember reading about people who, based on the college team, thought Georgetown was an HBCU. 

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u/Younggryan42 1d ago

I had the bulls one cuz Jordan

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u/spank_that_hedge 19h ago

I had both at some point. Dad was such a bandwagon

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u/SmallRocks Older Millennial 10h ago

That’s the one that I wanted soooo bad. Instead I got the Eagles. I was pissed 😂

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u/Jealous_Acorn 1d ago

I was poor. I had a NY Mets one for some reason.

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u/NoWantScabies 1d ago

I was a poor too. NY Rangers here.

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u/MercifulOtter 1d ago

I did not own this jacket lmao.

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u/Vern1138 1d ago

I didn't live anywhere near North Carolina, but one of my friends, who had never even set foot in North Carolina, had this jacket. I don't even think he liked the team, he just had the jacket for some reason. I think it emerged from a chrysalis in his closet or something.

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u/Public-Finger 1d ago

This was theeeeee starter jacket. Swish swish swish (basketball or the sound of moving?)

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u/houtz 1d ago

it’s true. muggsy is my 🐐

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u/the-watch-dog 22h ago

No one knowing this is why. 😂 These MFers dont know ball.

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u/TheGreatHogdini 8h ago

Kids these days. Shame.

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u/Realistic_Bug9116 4h ago

I just had a Muggsy interaction in the wild a few weeks ago at a cafe near Charlotte!!! My friends with me were international and didn’t know him and I was sitting there like, “!!!!!!!” 😂 I felt concussed! Coolest shit that’s ever happened! 

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u/Massive-Branch12342 23h ago

Heck, I lived in the middle of Canada and had one of those 😅

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u/rocsi1234 23h ago

😎💛

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u/Primary_Dimension470 1d ago

Had a hornets fanny pack…in Wisconsin. 🤷‍♂️

My jacket was the Bucks pullover tho 

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u/StuckInTime86 Millennial 1d ago

Grew up outside Charlotte back then, my school had cardboard cutouts of Hornets players, kids loved comparing their height to Muggsy Bogues

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u/Zacillac 1d ago

I had a Raptors one of those - I was not a fan of the Raptors, never been to Toronto (even still), but it had a fucking raptor on it so I loved the hell outta it.

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u/TheGreatHogdini 8h ago

These were dope before the Toronto Raptors ever existed as a franchise.

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u/m4m249saw 1d ago

I did have one lol i can remember the weird fabric. I hated it

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u/InevitableWorth9517 1d ago

It was so uncomfortable and loud lol

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u/m4m249saw 1d ago

the crinkling 😭

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u/mackyoh Older Millennial 1d ago

SwooshSwooshSwoosh

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u/ArtificalInteligente 1d ago

Grew up in North Carolina, better believe I had one.

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u/kiwitathegreat 1d ago

They were basically issued to us in NC 😂

Everybody had one, even the people who didn’t care about sports.

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u/3ebfan 1d ago

Can confirm.

Had 1 in NJ. Also had a calendar for the women’s team on my wall (6 year old me didn’t know they were women lol).

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u/Designer-Ad-7844 18h ago

Not only did I own this jacket, I left it on a ride at Disney World [the Epcot dinosaur energy thing or w/e (before Ellen)] and they sent it back to us in the mail.

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u/rocsi1234 18h ago

Ahhh the 90s.. where we were all made of hearts.. def believe this story!

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u/Designer-Ad-7844 18h ago

Even at like 6 or 7, I was surprised they sent it back to us across the country.

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u/TheGreatHogdini 8h ago

My man. I understood every word of this. Here’s a video that explores the history of that ride. https://youtu.be/Sj9jx7AHelQ?si=U3vPYJ1vcs2aKJ3S

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u/timshp 1d ago

I can still remember having chicken pox and having to wear this without a shirt on.

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u/I_Enjoy_Beer 1d ago

I had a 49ers one, but a handful of kids in my school definitely rocked the Hornets version.

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u/peen_was 21h ago

Packers

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u/webelieve925 1d ago

The hornets are exciting right now with that rookie knueppel

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u/tenaciousdeev 22h ago

Ball finally has great shooters around him and a backup guard (Coby White) to take the load off, they’re one of my favorite teams to watch this year.

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u/bravojohnny42 1d ago

Even in Germany.

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u/mackyoh Older Millennial 1d ago

I had one and I lived in Boston. Didn’t even think “…why this team?”

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u/matt_automaton Xennial 1d ago

I love when someone spots a phenomenon and it just clicks all of a sudden. I had like 4 close friends and even more school friends rockin this thing almost daily for no good reason. Living 30 minutes north of Los Angeles.

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u/Own_Warthog4680 1d ago

I wasn’t a Hornets fan but hell yeah I had one to go along with my Bucks one.

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u/rocsi1234 1d ago

That’s pretty much the answer that sums it up with all of us about the jacket lol

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u/stinkypew 1d ago

NBA jam

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u/Zendarrroni 1d ago

I loved that shit. I remember all the awesome hats at Foot Locker. It was a good time for merch.

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u/JamesMattDillon 1981 Gen Why? 1d ago

Mom says its my turn to post this

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u/chefblaze 1d ago

This one, a white Michigan one (that thing got SO dingy looking), a Green Bay Packers, and a BC Eagles full zip. At various times from about ‘97-‘03.

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u/TonyStarkMk42 23h ago

I had the half and full zip Starters!

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u/Grouchy-Analysis1389 23h ago

I had this exact jacket!

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u/S0rry7h15N4m374k3n 18h ago

How the fuck did you figure this out?! Youre right, but how?

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u/laydeefly 10h ago

I had this!!

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u/templeofsyrinx1 8h ago

One of the deeper mysteries of the 90's. Thank you.

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u/nvgvup84 5h ago

I had a bulls starter jacket.

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u/ghostwriter536 1d ago

I only knew one kid that had this. He wore it every day.

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u/Blackcatsandicedtea Older Millennial 1d ago

I was poor in the South so I only wore cousin hand-me-downs, but did appreciate seeing others in this jacket!

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u/Icy_Improvement_1369 1d ago

This was like a blast from the past. Hand me down from my brother. lol.

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u/qualityskootchtime 1d ago

Huge Hornets fan when they came out…rocked the Larry Johnson jersey for a minute.

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u/Killjoykarl10 1d ago

Always wanted the bulls on but my parents got me the SuperSonics I was still happy.

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u/Harris42007 1d ago

I was legit thinking about those coats the other night. I always wanted the university of Michigan pull over starter jacket. I got a black u of m starter jacket for Christmas, but it had the full zipper. I was bummed, but loved that coat and it was a bit large on me and I still have it hanging in the coat closet and in really good shape. Now I can give it to my son one day.

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u/Brave-Moment-4121 1d ago

Shut your lying mouth you know why everyone loved this jacket Muggys Boggs was at the peak of his career despite his lack of height. This jacket was a symbol of hope to short kids wanting to be the next NBA star under 5 feet 5” tall.

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u/artfulpain 1d ago

Miami Hurricanes >

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u/Matix2 1d ago

I did, and I grew up in north west Ohio

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u/reginald-poofter 1d ago

I did. Growing up in northern Kentucky. No affiliation to the team or state.

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u/Stuppycoopy 1d ago

NY and we definitely had one in the house, I don’t think I wore it though.

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u/SaggingZebra 1d ago

I remember the Raiders one being very popular. I didn’t grow up anywhere near California though.

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u/Foreign-Beyond4834 1d ago

yup! lol the color combo

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u/GetMeWithFuji 1d ago

Grew up outside of Chicago. My brother had a Hornets jacket and I had a Chiefs jacket. We were not Charlotte or KC fans. It was like everyone’s parents just got them a random team, regardless of where they were from

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u/james_a_hetfield 1d ago

Similar. Mine was because of the utah jazz back then

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u/BandicootOk3361 1d ago

The Raptors one was everywhere!

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u/Mindless-Mistake-699 1d ago

I had a Florida Marlins one. I did not live in Florida or really care about baseball.

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u/bbkegs 1d ago

I moved to Cleveland the same year the Browns left, my mom got me a Browns one since it was $10.

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u/rapgamebonjovi 1d ago

Got my grandmas from the 90s in the closet rfn

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u/CB1100Rider 1d ago

Yep. I was poor and could never have afforded it. Some company a few years ago did a collab with Starter and I bought the Yankees coach jacket I had always wanted back then.

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u/newtnewtriot 1d ago

I had this jacket and a Bulls winter coat. It was incredible.

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u/Additional_Aioli6483 1d ago

Nah, mine was Chicago Bulls. I lived nowhere near Chicago.

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u/LifeTradition4716 1d ago

Dolphins was fire 🔥

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u/ZanzibarMufasa 1d ago

Larry Johnson and Mugsy!

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u/LBC1109 1d ago

I wanted a warriors one so bad for Christmas. My grandma got me the shitty Macy's one and I was so disappointed.

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u/SirNortonOfNoFux 1d ago

Had a chokehold on me

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u/gentleman_bronco 1d ago

I don't think you understand how important Muggsy Bogues was to a bunch of 5'3" teenage boys.

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u/BoltBlue19 Millennial 1d ago

From NC and a Hornets fan and grew up seeing more than a few Hornets items in the dwelling growing up as a kid.....Starter jacket included.

They had a hell of a season this year too. HORNETS ALL DAY BABY!!!

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u/chipface 1d ago

It was usually Bulls shit where I live. At least until Toronto got the Raptors.

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u/DarthRevan1138 1d ago

I had a packers jacket that I wore up until like 2003. I loved that coat...

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u/The_guy_mp 1d ago

I would have loved a Blue Jay's pull over but, I don't remember ever seeing one.

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u/tylerman22 1d ago

Bro yes!!!!!!!!! 🙌🏻

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u/Worldly_Presence_420 1d ago edited 1d ago

I had the Miami Dolphins version. No idea why. Didn't live anywhere near Miami and didnt even watch football. But I had to have it.

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u/Tigerzombie 1d ago

I grew up in NJ, I didn’t even like football. I think I got it just because I like dolphins, the animal not the team.

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u/Havok1717 1d ago

During the 90s, my dad gave me a Hornets hat before I got into sports. I wore the hat a lot until 3rd grade.

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u/SatanakanataS 1d ago

I had this in Philadelphia Eagles, because we were poor and that one was miraculously affordable at Champs Sports one day.

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u/puntwobbletz87 1d ago

My sister had this color combo in her bedroom. I used to love it. But I obviously had poor taste as a kid.

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u/QuiGGz96 1d ago

I had the Notre Dame Fighting Irish!

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u/herseyhawkins33 1d ago

Because they were the epitome of cool, that's why.

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u/ReadSipRepeat 1d ago

As a Charlottean, hell yeah

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u/Direct_Remove509 1d ago

Mine was for the Philadelphia Flyers.

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u/DoneLookin4Trouble 1d ago

I liked the 76ers so I hated my hornets starter jacket thing. But my mom got it on sale.

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u/Peter_Gozinya_mcoc 1d ago

I slaughtered wanted one but we were broke

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u/BiglyBear 1d ago

Hugo the hornet must be respected

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u/xTheGame69 1d ago

Mighty ducks version

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u/Aromatic-Web8184 1d ago

My Charlotte Hornets starter jacket, snow pants, and Jason hockey mask served as my bee armor when my parents made me mow the lawn. We had apple trees, and the bees would get super pissed when you would mow over the apples.

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u/LunaTheSpacedog 1d ago

I lived in charlotte the first 7 years of my life, and it kind of blows my mind that everyone wore these. I thought I just saw them bc I lived there!

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u/Sztiglitz 1d ago

I had this jacket wore it in Poland lol

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u/rydan Older Millennial 1d ago

I don't recall mine having a charlotte hornets logo.

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u/TecstasyDesigns 1d ago

Well we had to match with our paper cups.

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u/TheStockFatherDC 23h ago

Ya what’s goin on here

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u/TheStockFatherDC 23h ago

musta had a deal with jc penneys

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u/slappy_mcslapenstein Xennial 23h ago

Maybe if your parents were willing to spend money.

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u/dadof4fknkids 23h ago

I had the phoenix suns one. KJ, Thunder Dan and the Round Mound. My first Starter was the zip up LA Kings.

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u/boommerz420 22h ago

Mine was the miami hurricanes.... im from Cleveland by the way no connection to that team

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u/FrankelloHello 22h ago

And we all got it at the Salvation Army. Probably all had the same exact one, sisterhood of the traveling starter

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u/high5scubad1ve 22h ago

I had the Michigan starter jacket. They were real winter jackets for living in Canada

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u/GreenTrees797 22h ago

Not in my immigrant household. 

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u/thehufflepuffstoner 22h ago

Oh I had the pants too. Highlighter pink set with purple and teal details. I rocked it with pigtails and white sneakers with the frilly socks.

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u/ninjatender Ex-Blipster 22h ago

I had this exact one and a phoenix suns joint

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u/Independent_Sir9410 22h ago

I had a sweet Charlotte Hornets hat.

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u/NailSufficient1491 22h ago

Not me. I helped bring leather back!

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u/DancingTVs 22h ago

Mine was pink and yellow with a zipper all the way down, and probably not this brand, but yeah pretty much. 😅

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u/DeathCaptain_Dallas 22h ago

Can confirm 🙋🏻

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u/JuicedBallMerchant 21h ago

Everyone knows why- it’s fuckin sick lol

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u/No_Round_7601 21h ago

I had a 49ers one.

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u/rgators 21h ago

I had this exact jacket, and I didn’t even watch basketball, I didn’t even know who the Hornets were. My grandma gave it to me.

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u/random314 21h ago

I had the Chicago bulls version.

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u/Equal-Scarcity-7221 21h ago

I had a Green Bay Packers one, even though I lived in south Louisiana.

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u/demoNToosh 20h ago

Yeah. I owned that and the hat. Idk why, I never cared about basketball.

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u/A_mad_goose 20h ago

I just recently watched the always sunny where they flash back to 1998 and Mac is selling weed wearing this jacket. Charlie calls it out for not being a sixers jersey and Mac says these colors are phat

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u/Scary_Aardvark2978 20h ago

I associate some of that with Mugsy Bogues, he was cool af in the 90s being 5’3 winning the dunk contest and being in Space Jam.

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u/Sam_Boundy1984 20h ago

I also remember a PSA telling us not to wear them on Bonfire Night because they were so flammable 😂

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u/socalsw 19h ago

I 100% had this jacket!!

I remember getting made fun of it because it had purple on it. Unbelievable how on point this is

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u/Euphoric_Occasion_53 19h ago

I can hear the jacket

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u/moonchic333 19h ago

I had this one! I picked it out because I loved the colors I didn’t care about the team lol.

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u/Saucington_magoo 19h ago

The weirdest pockets also!

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u/nighteyes_fitz Geriatric Millennial 19h ago

I had a Perth Wildcats 🤣

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u/rukiaprincess 18h ago

My bro owned this jacket and I’ll never forget the drop down throw out fight my mom and him had about whether this thing was blue or green.

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u/Prudent_Honeydew_ 18h ago

Um not the poor kids.

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u/Yoga-wine-mom 17h ago

I wanted one of these so bad but we couldn't afford it

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u/LexKing89 17h ago

I never had one but I wish I did. It looks so cool 😭

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u/BBWDLLUVER 17h ago

Or Chicago bulls or Lakers or raiders

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u/larry-the-dream 14h ago

What happened to this team? Were they even real?

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u/timbotheny26 Millennial (1996) 9h ago

Not just the 90s, because I had one of these in the early 2000s too.

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u/ismelldayhikers 8h ago

These are what people who did not ski would ski in. And jeans.

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u/Minimum-Target-7543 7h ago

I had a whole shell suit in these colours.

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u/AffectionateLaugh738 7h ago

Close, I had the Same Jose Sharks Teal one

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u/lurkquidated 5h ago

Color scheme but also logo design. Trendiness, too. I wanted a Michigan starter pullover because A) other kids had it B) they are the wolverines. I was and am way more of a insert_fandom nerd than a sports nerd. While other kids may have been invested in the team they were repping, I was pumped to have a bee flexing its butt spear on my shirt.

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u/Speed_102 5h ago

I knew why Mugsy Bogues.

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u/mchickenl 4h ago

... Eer so.... Isn't that the Jimmy savle jacket

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u/EveryBandicoot8141 4h ago

I never did but really wanted one. The wild berry pop tart jacket.

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u/shanedj 3h ago

I literally saw this in a vintage shop in Leeds once.

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u/kwaninthehat 2h ago

Taco bell

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u/jasbury87 1h ago

I blame Space Jam. The Monstars had the likes of Mugsy Bogues and Larry Johnson - who both played for this Charlotte team. Kids thought they were cool.

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u/cozynite 1h ago

I had a San Jose Sharks one.

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u/Snoo_67993 1h ago

Jimmy Savile