The Seattle Pilots live on in BrewerNation

Living four blocks from Miller Park (I use "to" in the blog title because it implies I'm headed that way -- "from" merely implies proximity), I think I have my finger on the pulse of BrewerNation. Every game night the streets around here are packed with its citizens. This season has been like an ongoing sociological experiment.

The one trend I have definetely picked up on for '07 is the wearing of the colors. In years past, you would see Cubs fans wearing Cubs gear, but outside of that most of the people going to Miller Park were indistinguishable from people headed to Summerfest.

Not this year. The overwhelming majority of people I see going to the game are wearing Brewer gear (in fact, while I'm always chastised for not wearing red to Badger games, this year is the first year anyone has ever chastised me for not wearing Brewer gear to a Brewer game).

This trend has also led me to another important conclusion -- BrewerNation overwhelmingly prefers the original Brewer colors. Its not even close. The exact colors sported by this blog are the ones Brewer fans identify with, the original blue and gold. I love it.

The irony of this is that "original blue and gold" are not indigenous Milwaukee colors. Those are the colors the team inherited from the ill-fated Seattle Pilots. In fact, if you look back at the 60's Milwaukee Brewer pins Bud Selig and his baseball corporation used to promote the team before it even existed, you will notice that Bud intended the team to wear the same red and blue that the Milwaukee Braves had. However, because of the hasty manner in which the team was snatched out of bankruptcy court and transfered to Milwaukee, there was no time to change the uniform design. So the team just went with the Pilots blue and gold.

I'm glad they did. I wish they would go back to those colors again.