And we still don't know whether they'll break .500 this season

Before Nicole and I went to Portland, I made plans to buy a Portland Trail Blazers T-shirt. Even though they haven't performed all that well over the last few seasons, they are still my hometown team, and I want to be able to represent that. I ended up buying three shirts, one of which is nothing more than a black shirt with a oversized silver Blazers "pinwheel" logo:

Well, here's the thing. When you're in southwest Missouri, which only recently is at least four hours away from the nearest NBA venue (grumble), you have to assume that a majority of locals don't really know who the Blazers are, much less recognize their mysterious logo. (Come to think of it, some folks don't know what the NBA is.) It really just looks like a map symbol for a hurricane.

According to Wikipedia, the pinwheel logo, which was designed by the cousin of former Blazer executive Harry Glickman, is supposed to simply represent to two teams of five players lined up against each other, presumably at the half-court circle (which, on the floor of the Rose Garden, is also this logo). It's sort of obscure, but then again, a lot of things were obscure in the early 70's.

Almost thirty years later, they're still using that weird little pinwheel, which by the way does not suggest "aggressive" or "menacing" in any way whatsoever, and that means that I'll have to keep answering questions from my co-workers about the funny-looking hurricane symbol on my shirt. Go Blazers!