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The Answer.

The Answer

Celebrate 1 more season with Bubba Chuck by listening to THE BEST SONG IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE.

Let’s also take this opportunity to recount a mildly funny Iverson-related story:

Not sure if you’re aware of the bizarre-but-true connection between A.I. and Bruce Hornsby (that’s right, Hornsby of the Mandolin Rain), but here’s a little primer in case you need to get up to speed. (Long story short, Hornsby is a big time VA hoops fan and helped get Allen out of jail when he was a kid.)

So here goes: one night I’m at a concert at the Hollywood Bowl with a bunch of friends. It was some kind of jazz show, remember it being pretty righteous. So Hornsby was there, playing keys with the band. At one point somebody near the front was heckling about something, and Hornsby literally stopped the show, took a mic and got up and yelled at the dude. Totally tore him to shreds, in a really funny but very aggressive way. It was pretty hilarious– we were all joking around the rest of the night about how Hornsby is the kind of bad ass mofo that you don’t fuck with (which obviously came as quite a surprise to pretty much everyone in the audience, ourselves included.)

Anyway, after the show, Hornsby is sitting outside at a table signing autographs. He looks like total wussy Bruce Hornsby, but we’re still going on about how you don’t fuck with Bruce Hornsby unless you want to get a mouthful of whoop-ass. So one of my friends yells out “Yo Hornsby, you ain’t as tough as Bubba Chuck!” and Hornsby suddenly leaps out of his seat and comes toward us. We all freeze, thinking we might be about to get our assess kicked by Bruce Hornsby, and the Range isn’t anywhere to be seen.

So Hornsby goes “I dunked on that little fucker.” And we’re like WHAAAAT?? So he goes on to tell us this story of how, after getting Allen out of jail, he challenged him to a game of one-on-one. And not only dunked on him– he beat him. I would have called bullshit, but if I learned one thing that night it’s this: don’t EVER fuck with Bruce Hornsby.

Hornsby!

Got some really nice emails in the last week from Philavania phans. The whole idea behind Philavania was to do stuff for people who love what we love, no matter if they’re living on Cottman Avenue or moved to Texas when they were 6. So it’s awesome for us to hear from people all over the country (and the world) who are diggin’ what we do. We dig what you do too. Thanks for your support, it’s been amazing and we couldn’t do it without yous.

From nathan “a big time philly fan living in the south”:
Subject: keep up the good work
love the shirts you guys make.
love the eagles
love the phucking phillies
love the flyers

fuck the giants, mets, and rangers.

Amen brother!

From Suziee in the 18447:
i have 4 phils t’s and i absolutely love them, they’ve held up better than any team store t’s i’ve ever over paid for for. even in rain. i will always from now on order my stuff from you guys, you guys rock! go phils!!!! my shirts look as good as the day i got them. and i get many compliments on my “world phuckin’ champion shirt” it’s unreal. awesome!!

No Suziee, YOU’RE awesome.

Somebody from the blog Uniwatch (yes, there’s apparently a blog dedicated to sports uniforms) has leaked a photo of the 76ers new road uniforms. No more black & gold & stupid swirling basketballs! Hooray!
We’d prefer a good old fashioned “PHILA”, but this Barkley-style throwback will do nicely. Can’t wait. Oh and a friend also sent us an exclusive photo of the new Sixers court, seen below…

Well OK maybe winning the World Series was better, but our prayers have been answered– the Sixers are finally (phinally?) dumping those black & gold uniforms!!  We’re going old-school baby!  Philavania loves old school, so Philavania loves the old Sixers logo.  It’s one of the best logos ever.  So plain, so simple, so sweet.

To celebrate, how about we all listen to what we at Philavania believe to be THE BEST SONG EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE. (Seriously, I can’t listen to this once.  I just let it play, and play, and play…)

http://philavania.com/stuff/sixers.html

Why did we ever change it?