ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Baseball team name makes a stink, takes off like rocket

MADISON, Ala.

A new Alabama minor league baseball team’s name is taking off like a rocket after making a big stink.

Meet the Madison-based Rocket City Trash Pandas.

Al.com reports the team held an event Oct. 27 to unveil their new logo and start merchandise sales. They will begin playing in 2020.

“The name has gone viral,” said managing partner Ralph Nelson. Nelson told the newspaper they had already received merchandise requests from 30 countries around the world.

The team’s logo features a raccoon lifting off in a trash-can-like rocket.

A team press release said official team colors included “Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray.”

A California-based marketing firm helped developed the concept, which pays homage to the region’s aerospace industry. And trash pandas.

Montana ranchers find severed heads of cow, elk

BUTTE, Mont.

Authorities are investigating after the heads of a cow and an elk were found severed on a road in western Montana.

The Montana Standard reports ranchers Darrell and Shauna Rogers called Anaconda police Oct. 28 after they found the head of one of their cows with its tongue missing and a cigarette in its mouth.

They also found the head of an elk near the cow head in the middle of a road near the state land they lease for their cattle. The bodies of the animals were not found.

Shauna Rogers says the road is frequented by hunters and cattle ranchers.

Anaconda Police Chief Tim Barkell says he has called the Montana Department of Livestock to help investigate. He says police do not have any suspects yet.

Philadelphia’s decadent ‘Wing Bowl’ is no more

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia’s annual decadent display of binge eating and bad behavior known as Wing Bowl is over after 26 years.

The event hosted by a sports radio station the Friday before the Super Bowl drew thousands of rowdy fans to the Wells Fargo Center in the early hours to kick off Super Bowl weekend.

WIP hosts Angelo Cataldi and Al Morganti announced the end of Wing Bowl on the air recently. Morganti originally came up with the idea as a way to get Philadelphia sports fans through another championship weekend without the home team.

He implied the city doesn’t need it anymore, adding: “It’s like that Greek god who put the rock up the hill. It went over. ... They won the Super Bowl!”

Associated Press