This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

All over Oakland right now, people are wearing warrior shirts and

flying their warriors flags from their cars.

And as much as we like our hometown team here at 99 p.I, we've been following these

NBA finals for another design-related reason. When you watch the games in

Toronto, the whole stadium is filled with the

the north on them but every now and then you see little flashes of purple.

Those bold fans are wearing one of the most polarizing jerseys in sports history.

A jersey we actually did a whole episode about last year.

So in honor of the Toronto Raptors and the beautifully ugly Jersey they gave the world,

we're going to rerun that episode for you today,

plus an update from our newest 99 P.I team member Chris Barube, who was raised and

currently resides in the Great North. He is very excited right now. Stay with us.

On a March afternoon in 1996, the Toronto Raptors, a brand new team in the NBA at the time, were playing the Chicago Bulls.

The Bulls were the best team in the league, and the Raptors were pretty terrible.

36,000 fans showed up that day and the Raptors actually beat the Bulls.

But it was a mostly meaningless game at the end of the season.

This is reporter Whitney Jones. And what's so

interesting to me about this game isn't who won or how the teams played, but the way

they looked. There's the Bulls who are just classic NBA. They've had the same logo since 1966.

They're wearing their red away jerseys that look basically like every Chicago

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