Bucks bringing back the purple jersey’s for their throwback alternates this season!

YESSSSSS. Degenerate Bucks fans such as myself have been hoping/waiting for this one for a while. For better or worse, this is the color scheme I grew up with. And up until the Giannis Era, this color scheme represented the ONE good season I saw between 1991 and 2017, the famous/infamous 2001 season. The one season where the Bucks seemed to have all of the pieces in place to make a run at the title. The only ingredient missing from that team was them existing in a TV market that David Stern cared about.

Not that I’m bitter about it to this day. I mean I *COULD* still be bitter that the Sixers shot 186 free throws in the series and the Bucks shot 120. I *COULD* still be bitter that the Bucks had 12 technical fouls called on them to the Sixers 3. I *COULD* still be bitter that the Bucks were whistled for 5 flagrant fouls and the Sixers for precisely 0 in a very physical series. I *COULD* still be bitter that the heart and soul of the frontcourt, Scotty Williams, was suspended for Game 7 even though he wasn’t even ejected from Game 6 for a committing a flagrant foul. I could be, but I’m not.

Anyhoo, I can’t get my hands on a purple Giannis jersey quick enough. The Bucks having a the best player on the planet on a title contending team and wearing the jerseys of my youth? Perfection.

PS: Linds and I were putting a beat down on State Fair last night so I didn’t see it live, but apparently a Harry Caray hologram was a part of the festivities for the Field of Dreams game last night:

I don’t know how something can simultaneously be cool and nightmare fuel, but holograms hit that sweet spot for me. Like the thinking is in the correct place here, finding a way to incorporate a legend who has long since passed on into a game like this, but the hologram itself just weirds me out. I remember a few years back a hologram of 2 Pac performed at Coachella and that skeeved me out as well. Again, cool, but weird.

Double PS: I hope the Harry Caray hologram at least smelled like mustard and hot dogs with a little bit of scotch for good measure. Authenticity matters.