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

On a March afternoon in 1996, the 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.

And 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 are just classic NBA. They've had the same logo since

1966. They're wearing their red away jerseys that look basically

like every Chicago Bowls Jersey ever. It's red with the word bowls written across the front

in 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.

But these jerseys got compared to a

different, much friendlier 90s dinosaur.

Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination and when he saw he's what we call a dinosaur sensation.

That's now known as the Barney design because their road uniform was purple.

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