[OT] Origin of the name "N.Y. Rangers"
Posted by KenP
[OT] Origin of the name "N.Y. Rangers"
Posted by: KenP (---.nws.noaa.gov)
Date: February 21, 2008 10:13AM
Completely off topic (other than the NY connection and it's hockey), but I found this too interesting to not share.
In 1925, G.L. Rickard, the Texas-born owner of New York's Madison Square
Garden and famed boxing promoter, decided to add a hockey team to his
empire - at least in part to take on the New York Americans, a team
owned by a rival promoter. Rickard had not yet decided on a name for
his squad when a sportswriter made a punning reference to "Tex's
Rangers." The "Rangers" part stuck, and the team has played under that
name since 1926.
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