If you have seen any pictures from our team or know anything about the Chiba Jets, you know that our mascot is a big pink elephant.
I don't know if you can see from the picture but the elephant, Jumbo (the mascot's name), has old school pilots glasses on the top of its head - which makes sense since we are the Jets. But why the pink elephant? At first we just thought it was a random pink elephant, but this past week I found out otherwise. The reason we have an elephant as our mascot is because our state, Chiba, has the most elephants (in the zoo of course) than any other state in Japan. ( I asked if this was a well-known fact among Chiba residents and was told most likely). Then at the games Jumbo wears a jersey and the number is 200. I also found out the reasoning behind this. If you look at the number 2 and the letter Z they look pretty similar. So the number 200 isn't really for the number 200 but rather means Zoo.
So we have a pink elephant with some sweet pilot's goggles and a jersey with the number Zoo on it.
And another interesting fact the state of Chiba (the state/prefecture that we live in now in Japan) and Wisconsin (the state we live in back in the U.S.) have a sister state relationship/partnership.
http://www.wisconsinchiba.org/ - not sure exactly what this means but the 2 places have one.
(we also found out that the state we lived in during our time in Germany, Hessen, has a sister-state relationship with Wisconsin too). Its crazy that of the 5 places Wisconsin has sister-state relationships with, we have lived in 2 of them.
I don't know if you can see from the picture but the elephant, Jumbo (the mascot's name), has old school pilots glasses on the top of its head - which makes sense since we are the Jets. But why the pink elephant? At first we just thought it was a random pink elephant, but this past week I found out otherwise. The reason we have an elephant as our mascot is because our state, Chiba, has the most elephants (in the zoo of course) than any other state in Japan. ( I asked if this was a well-known fact among Chiba residents and was told most likely). Then at the games Jumbo wears a jersey and the number is 200. I also found out the reasoning behind this. If you look at the number 2 and the letter Z they look pretty similar. So the number 200 isn't really for the number 200 but rather means Zoo.
So we have a pink elephant with some sweet pilot's goggles and a jersey with the number Zoo on it.
And another interesting fact the state of Chiba (the state/prefecture that we live in now in Japan) and Wisconsin (the state we live in back in the U.S.) have a sister state relationship/partnership.
http://www.wisconsinchiba.org/ - not sure exactly what this means but the 2 places have one.
(we also found out that the state we lived in during our time in Germany, Hessen, has a sister-state relationship with Wisconsin too). Its crazy that of the 5 places Wisconsin has sister-state relationships with, we have lived in 2 of them.
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