Knickerbockers

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> 
> Yeah, I think the NY Knicks got that name because of the clothes 
> New Yorkers used to wear...when it was New Holland, I think?  Vague 
> associations swirling around, none of which have to do with ice 
cream 
> or fruit.
> 
> Thanks--now I can continue PS/SS in peace of mind,
> Amy Z


The Knickerbockers were a founding Dutch family of New York.  Loosely 
the term Knickerbocker can be used to describe any New Yorker.  That 
is where the NY Knicks name came from.  Knickerbockers also the anme 
for short pants gathered under the knee, such as the type Golfer 
Payne Stewart wore as well as crosscountry skiers.