Currently playing on PBS is a documentary concerning the “Team that Changed the World,” their description of the legendary Harlem Globetrotters. A schedule can be found here. I unfortunately missed the Georgia showing of it.
Anyway, the Harlem Globetrotters have long been considered some of the greatest athletes and entertainers in the world. Wilt Chamberlain got his professional start with the Globetrotters, and I’m sure all of us remember Meadowlark, Curly, and the rest appearing on those old Scooby Doo hour long shows. The legendary Globetrotters were even blessed with their own planet and university in Futurama.
So, in honor of this team, this team that has been one of the most enduring popular culture icons of all time, I give you a new theme named after that classic whistling tune by which we all know the Globetrotters. Today, I give you Sweet Georgia Brown.
The Harlem Globetrotters played here in Buffalo not too long ago. They are fun to watch. I appreciate you 984, for giving forum goers here choices on how they want the forum to look, but I think I’ll keep my green background for now. Brown’s not that bad though, but personally I’m not a big fan of it.
Believe it or not, a few years ago, the Globetrotters came to Whitefish, MT (a town with about 5000 people, about 7 miles from the slightly smaller town where I live). My mom and I went to see them. It was pretty cool. I got most of their autographs, and an autograph of one of the players on the other team, because everybody kept ignoring them, and my mom thought he was cute.
They stopped playing the Washington Generals in 1995 (that team last beat the Globetrotters in 74, so the all-time series is literally like 15,000 - 1). They’ve been replaced with the New York Nationals, a team that has yet to beat the Globetrotters. In a sense, if you saw the Generals or Nationals beat the Trotters, it would be kind of cool AND suck at the same time. You would see an upset that almost NEVER occurs, but the Globetrotters would’ve lost.
