How did the Blue Jackets get their name?

Here is the real explanation by team personnel: Columbus Blue Jackets:Yellow jackets are industrious and team oriented, which should strike fear into the hearts of our opponents, but we wanted to...

The Union soldiers in the North were called "Blue Jackets" and Ohio has a rich American Civil War history.

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The Columbus Dispatch ran a contest to name the team. They promised that the #1 winner would absolutely be the name of the team. Well, by a huge landslide, the "Columbus Cows" was the name chosen by...

I am looking for the same thing. So far, this is what I've found: Not only did I read this on the internet, but I saw an old African American woman from south Mississippi explaining the same thing on...