This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

On a March afternoon in 1996,

a Toronto Raptors, a brand new team in the NBA at the time, were playing the Chicago Bulls.

The Bulls were the best team in the league, and the Raptors were pretty terrible.

36,000 fans showed up that day, and the Raptors actually beat the Bulls.

But it was a mostly meaningless game at the end of the season.

This is Reporter Whitney Jones.

What's so interesting to me about this game isn't who won or how the teams played.

But the way they looked, there's the Bulls who were just classic NBA.

They've had the same logos since 1966.

They're wearing their red-awaited jerseys that look basically like every Chicago Bulls jersey ever.

It's red with the word Bulls written across the front and black and white lettering.

It's simple, classic.

But then, there's the Toronto Raptors.

The team is wearing their white home uniforms, which have jagged, silver, and black pinstripes,

as if they were cut by slashing Raptor claws, and then across the whole front.

There's a giant red basketball playing dinosaur, who himself is wearing sneakers and a uniform,

a totally different uniform, and he's dribbling a basketball.

And that was just their home uniform.

The road jerseys that year were even more fun.

They were bright purple.

All of this, including the Raptors name, had been inspired by the velociraptors in the wildly successful movie Jurassic Park.

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