First off we would like to say thank you to all the people who submitted pictures for the contest. However, the best one we received was from former Carolina Panther’s defensive end Al Wallace dressed up as Grandmama! Still not sure how he fit those guns in that cardigan
We said they were coming and now they are finally here! The Brand New Official “Bring Back the Buzz” shirts!! They will be on sale for the first time this Friday at our Party downtown at Town Tavern for only 12$!!!!
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This is it!
We are ready to begin this Charlotte B**Cats season and reignite the campaign to bring the HORNETS name back to CHARLOTTE! We took the city of Charlotte by storm last year with ESPN articles, TV/Radio Interviews and Magazine Spreads! Now we are back and ready to have our voices heard during our finest hour!
Next Friday we will be throwing a party at Town Tavern in downtown Charlotte.
We will be selling our new “Bring Back the Buzz” T-Shirts! Charlotte B**Cats V Indiana Pacers game will be all over the TVs DRINK SPECIALS |
If you haven’t already noticed, take a look at the Bring Back The Buzz logo and you will see that the Large B is split in two and in doing so it creates the #13. This is because of Bobby Phills.
A huge area of concern for us over this whole process has been the fact that we have discussed with dozens of New Orlean’s Hornets fans and they have absolutely no idea why the number 13 hangs in their rafters and who this Bobby Phills guy is.
Bobby played with the Hornets in Charlotte from 1997-2000 alongside the likes of Wesley, Mashburn, Brown, Rice, Mason, Divac and others. Sadly, On January 12, 2000, while a member of the Charlotte Hornets, Phills was killed in an automobile accident.
Following this was one of the saddest and proudest moments as a Hornets fan. We watched as Bobby’s son touched his dad’s jersey one last time before it was raised into the rafters. Bobby Phills was the first Hornet to ever have his jersey retired. At the same time the Charlotte community came together and helped support the Phills family through this rough time. Kendall (Bobby’s wife) was present at every Charlotte Hornets game until they left. I truly hope the Bobcat’s organization is in touch with the Phills family.
Our goal after we get the name back from New Orleans is to Get Bobby Phills’ jersey back in Charlotte where it belongs.
Attention Bees and Ghouls!
Anyone who knows Evan and Scotty BringBackTheBuzz knows that when they were growing up the Old Hivestead was always a buzzing place on Halloween! In honor of her favorite holiday, our very ownMAMABUZZ has announced her first ever Halloween HORNETSCHARACTER costume contest!!!
This isn’t about the Swag this time folks – it’s about the Characters that make up our great HORNETS HISTORY!!!
So get your Grandmamma costume out of mothballs and your George Shinn mask out of the attic and send us your pics! and we’ll post them all over (FB,TWITTER,INSTAGREAM. And OUR BLOG) Remember to think outside the hive folks – how about a ref from the first home game? The entire starting lineup? B**CAT Zombees? James K Flynn? (extra point if you ARE James K)! Do you think you’re a doppelganger for the Buzz Boyz or John Morgan? – give it your best shot! BEE CREATIVE!!!!!!!!
MAMABUZZ will announce her favorite on Tuesday, October 30. The winner will be invited to MAMA and PAPA BUZZ’ Hivestead on Halloween night to receive aHornets gifts basket including a pair of B**Cats tickest and have their picture taken with the BUZZ family. That picture will be our cover photo on the new BRINGBACKTHEBUZZ FACEBOOK page for November! Here’s your chance to see the birthplace of BringBackThe Buzz!
Come on all you beelievers out there – put your Hornets snap-back thinking caps on and get buzzy!!!
You can also send pics to bringbackthebuzz@yahoo.com
“Discover Charlotte” is an in-depth exploration & identification of the history and culture of Charlotte, NC.
Discover Charlotte will be interviewing “Bring Back the Buzz”‘s Scotty Kent along with the We…Beelieve”‘s John Morgan tonight at 7pm as part of a documentary that will be taking an deep look into Charlotte and what makes it unique.
Click on the link below to watch the video that explains the Documentary.
http://www.facebook.com/BringBackTheBuzz
Good Morning! Bring Back the Buzz has decided to go into the Facebook world and reach an even wider audience in order to obtain our ultimate goal of getting this Hornets name back to Charlotte. We are still working with John Morgan and the We Beelieve: Charlotte…take back your Hornets! campaign under the umbrella of “Charlotte Hornets 2.0”. Now while we have reached almost 2,000 followers on Twitter, over 20,000 hits on our blog and more than double that to www.bringbackthebuzz.com….Twitter had become our main outlet and was a bit confining.
Last night, Bring Back the Buzz had a meeting downtown to work on our plan for the upcoming season and one of the major issues was that we ourselves did not have a Facebook page. We have been working in unison with John Morgan from the We Beelieve: Charlotte…take back your Hornets and will continue to do so under the umbrella of “Charlotte Hornets 2.0”.
As the NBA season gets ready to begin here in the next few weeks Bring Back the Buzz along with We Beelieve will be putting in everything we have to make sure this is the last season OUR NBA team has the name Bobcats!
To Make it Simple…..
Bring Back the Buzz + We Beelieve = Charlotte Hornets 2.0!
Five years after the Charlotte Coliseum was imploded, something new is taking shape on the land where the Hornets used to play.
Oxford Properties of Atlanta will break ground in the next two weeks on what will be a three building, 282-unit apartment complex. Oxford bought the property from Pope & Land, which plans to develop the rest of the property into shops, offices and more places for people to live.
“We came to Charlotte with a vision,” said Pope & Land VP Mason Zimmerman. The entire first phase of the project, called City Park, was already under contract in 2007, but the rezoning took longer than the developer thought, and when the site was finally ready, the recession was in full swing.
“This is the resurrection,” said Zimmerman. The apartments, he said, should be finished next year.
There will be a nod to the old coliseum at City Park. The trees that were planted as part of the landscaping designed by artist Maya Lin will stay, and the developer has commissioned a piece of art made from pieces of metal from the coliseum.
That artwork, and a plaque, will stand at the center of the development, where the coliseum stood until its demolition in 2007.
Article by WCNC
by David Steele AOL FanHouse Columnist
Ever since Michael Jordan first bought into the Charlotte Bobcats in 2006, and especially since he took full control in 2010, it’s been assumed by most that winning would just be a matter of time.
Never mind his previous face-plant as a front-office executive with the Washington Wizards.
Michael Jordan is reportedly giving up his basketball decision-making role with the Charlotte Bobcats. (AP Photo)Of all the qualities for which Jordan is known, winning is at the top, so what’s to stop him now that he was in a suit instead of a uniform?
What stopped him, it’s become obvious, was himself.
Here’s what also seems obvious: Jordan has finally recognized that fact. If the report in the newest edition of ESPN The Magazine is correct, he is also about to fix that.
Jordan is reportedly passing off responsibility for basketball decisions to the executives and staff he hired, primarily general manager Rich Cho. That move can’t too come soon or be welcomed too heartily by what’s left of what was once a rabid NBA fan base in Charlotte.
It’s hard to have three owners of two franchises in one market in such a short time period who have been as destructive as former Hornets owner George Shinn, original Bobcats owner Robert Johnson and now Jordan. They each caused pain in their own unique ways. To Jordan’s credit, he’s not the worst of the bunch; topping Shinn’s act would not only be challenging, but possibly felonious.
Still for MJ, cleaning up Johnson’s mess, then creating a brand-new mess of his own has been an impressive feat.
Jordan’s mistakes as owner come from the hazy, undefined region between wanting to be Jerry West and thinking he already was Jerry West. That would be unacceptable if applied to a player’s approach to the job, and it’s been just as disastrous in the context of West’s team-building genius.
The wise move is to let someone else do that job. The wise move may be at hand. It just took the worst single season by a team in league history to make it happen. Whatever Jordan’s image of himself as an architect in whatever position he envisioned himself, a 7-59 record told the world that it was a lie.
It’s hard to say if it’s an honest mistake, or a common one. Who has ever been in Jordan’s position in Charlotte to compare him to? Magic Johnson with the Dodgers right now might be a portion of a comparison, but so far, in his very brief time as head of the group that bought a team in a different sport than the one he dominated, Magic has confined his duties to being the public face and voice, and to letting management do its job.
In other words, he wasn’t out there working the phones to put together the Josh Beckett-Adrian Gonzalez deal last month. There isn’t a No. 1 pick spent on Kwame Brown on his resume yet, nor a No. 3 pick on Adam Morrison.
Cho arrives in Charlotte with the DNA of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Portland Trail Blazers. The Oklahoma City part is what will catch most people’s eye, for obvious reasons; the Portland part should, too, because he did his work there amidst organizational dysfunction created largely by the owner, Paul Allen; that also claimed his predecessor, the similarly-brainy Kevin Pritchard.
Organizational dysfunction emanating from the owner? Rich, pal, jump right in, you must know your way around already.
It may be time to stop punching Jordan and his front-office reputation in the face, though. As it’s been pointed out here, hiring Mike Dunlap from St. John’s as head coach in June was a smarter move than he got credit for. Cho has been in place since last summer; the lines of responsibility seem to be drawn more clearly now, though.
Cho had the unenviable task of making the second overall choice in this year’s draft – after no-brainer Anthony Davis – and taking Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was gutsy, mainly because he’s the kind of less-spectacular talent Jordan kept missing on. In fact, the ESPN The Magazine story reports, by being fired in Portland and hired in Charlotte when he was in the run-up to the 2011 draft, Cho was in no position to talk the owner out of his pet pick, Connecticut’s Kemba Walker.
It wasn’t so much that picking Walker was wrong; it’s that it was a quintessential Jordan pick, and Cho was about to get clearance to throw that sort of decision-making away. The Bobcats might have lost 59 times no matter who they’d drafted that year, but from then on, they’d have to do it under Cho’s watch, not Jordan’s.
Good. There’s still a chance he could be an owner that can live up to what he was as a player. The way to do it, he may finally realize, is to get out of his own way.
Bring Back the Buzz 
