This past weekend I caught a glimpse of a tie-dye t-shirt on a passer-by and complimented him.

He then turned and I got to see the whole front design, which included a skeleton dunking a basketball. And he then explained that, in 1992, newly independent Lithuania did not yet have the wherewithal to properly support its Olympic men's basketball team with, for instance, designing and providing official jerseys. And that the Grateful Dead heard about this and sponsored that team, taking care of many expenses. And this t-shirt was a replica of? homage to? those donated shirts.

I later told @leonardr about this and we looked up the #history. There's a documentary! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Dream_Team

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