Basketball Trivia

[Mark Padgett]

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]

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.