Putting 'Mad Ants' in Their Place
Somewhere, in one of the L.A. News Group's "platforms" I had the NBA Development League's "Mad Ants" as being a Bakersfield team.
Correction:
The Mad Ants play out of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
And it makes at least a little sense, now. The name. It doesn't have to be about angry emmets.
Remember your American history?
Anthony Wayne was the name of a U.S. general during the Revolutionary War. His nickname was "Mad Anthony" ... apparently because the after-effects of a head wound (a musket ball taken at the Battle of Stony Point, in 1779) caused him to have epileptic seizures.
"Mad Anthony" later led a very successful war against the Indians in Ohio, and grateful residents of a city in next-door Indiana named a city after him. Fort Wayne.
So ... Mad Ants? Mad Anthony, see? "Fort Wayne Mad Ants."
And we thought it was ticked off insects. In Bakersfield.