Being a good sport
The Bay Area is known for its amazing football, baseball, basketball and hockey teams. You might bleed red and gold or hemorrhage blue and yellow, but how are you on sports trivia?
Long before the Giants started sending home run balls into McCovey Cove, they gave out pins to faithful fans who huddled at frigid Candlestick Park for extra-inning games. What were these pins called?
• The Croix de Candlestick, which included the motto “Veni, Vidi,
Vixi” or “I came, I saw, I survived”
• West Coast Polar Bear Club
• Mighty Breath of the Giants
There have been a few great left-handed quarterbacks, but only two are in the Football Hall of Fame, and both are Bay Area legends. Name those QBs.
• Joe Montana and Daryle Lamonica • Y.A. Tittle and Jeff Plunket
• Steve Young and Kenny Stabler
Before the Sharks swam into San Jose, the Bay Area had another hockey team, based in Oakland. What was its name, and what happened to it?
• The California Golden Seals; the team moved to Cleveland and
became the Barons • The Oakland Oaks; after suffering through five unsuccessful
seasons, the team disbanded
• We’re just kidding — there wasn’t a hockey team here before
the Sharks.
Like a few other teams — and many of us residents — the Golden State Warriors are transplants to the Bay Area. Where did they come from?
• The Philadelphia Warriors were founded in 1946 and moved to the Bay Area in 1962, becoming first the San Francisco Warriors and later — in 1971 — changing their name to the Golden State.
• It’s complicated. The Warriors originally were the home team in Milwaukee, before relocating to Green Bay. Then they moved to Seattle and became the Washington Warriors.
• The Warriors got their start in 1942 as the Montreal Royal Guardsmen, but in the league expansion following World War
II, California was awarded a franchise, and the Guardsmen decided to head to sunnier climes. They dropped the distinctive Canadian moniker and became the Warriors.