The Sixers’ G League affiliate will have a new name next season, the team announced today in a press release.
The franchise will be called the Delaware Blue Coats in honor of the 1st Delaware Regiment soldiers who fought in the American Revolution. Formerly known as the Delaware 87ers, the team’s uniforms will be the same blue color as Philadelphia’s with red and white trimming. The logo will depict Founding Father Caesar Rodney, who made a famous horseback ride in 1776 to cast a tie-breaking vote for independence.
The Blue Coats will play in a new, state-of-the-art field house located on the Wilmington riverfront. It will open later this year and can hold 2,500 people.
“It really puts the team in a more proper light to Delaware as well as 76ers fans,” Chris Heck, the Sixers’ president of business operations, told Rob Tornoe of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Nice. I’m down with this change.
Cool
Identifies more with Delaware, new identity for a new stadium, new identity as the g-league grows.
How is it in all the American History classes I have had in my life this is the first I am hearing of Caesar Rodney
He doesn’t get a ton of ink in most history texts, but he was a pretty interesting guy.
How in the name of Button Gwinnett have you not heard of Caesar Rodney?
Good!
87ers was soooo bad.
Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets, skating through the Columbus winter, are jealous of the Bluecoats’ choice of heavier outerwear.
+1