Mon Apr 26, 2010, 06:02pm
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9/11 - Never Forget
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 5,642
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap
Not sure what the Baltimore Bullets were prior to that name, but they were the Capitol Bullets & Washington Bullets prior to becoming the Washington Wizards. [insert Jay Leno's joke here]
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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
They started as the Chicago Packers, then became the Chicago Zephyrs before moving to Baltimore. They changed their name in Chicago from the Packers because there was a lot of backlash from Bears fans, as you can imagine, even though the number of meat packers in Chicago was about a few thousand more than there ever were in Green Bay, so there was some validity to the nickname.
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When can we give them back?
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