Ivytalk wrote:JoltinJoe wrote:
That was a great player. The moment he went under and around the basket, you could see the D back off to defend the pass. And then he just circled around again and laid it in with a soft underhand motion.
BTW, you sure you're not a Knicks fan? You seem to be watching a lot of the Knickerbockers lately?
Here's an easy question for a Harvard guy who roots for the NYK: why are they called the Knickerbockers?
I'm going to guess that the name is derived from those pants the early Dutch settlers of NYC used to wear.
The term "Knickerbockers" traces its origin back to the Dutch settlers who came to the New World -- and especially to what is now New York -- in the 1600s. Specifically, it refers to the style of pants the settlers wore ... pants that rolled up just below the knee, which became known as "Knickerbockers," or "knickers".
Through history, the Dutch settler "Knickerbocker" character became synonymous with New York City. The city's most popular symbol of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was "Father Knickerbocker," complete with cotton wig, three-cornered hat, buckled shoes, and, of course, knickered pants.
The Knickerbocker name had its first use in the world of sports in 1845, when Alexander Cartwright's Manhattan-based baseball team -- the first organized team in baseball history -- was named the "New York Knickerbockers" or the "Knickerbocker Nine." The Knickerbocker name stayed with the team even after it moved its base of operations to Elysian Fields at Hoboken, N.J. in 1846. (The baseball link may have prompted Casey Stengel to joyously exclaim, "It's great to be back as the manager of the Knickerbockers!" when he was named pilot of the newborn Mets in 1961.)
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