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<\/a><\/p>\nColor:<\/strong> Red <\/p>\n Amy Jones formed the Tompkins Square Riots with a team philosophy revolving around laid back Sunday fun and general good times.\u00a0 She explains the origins of the team’s name:<\/p>\n Our team name commemorates a glorious history of working-class uprisings, punkrockitude, and general mayhem in TSP, spanning over a century.\u00a0 We see our team, and BTSH as a whole, as contributing to the spirit and vitality of public life in the park, and we do so with the utmost respect for the struggles to preserve an inclusive and egalitarian notion and practice of “the public” that have taken place in the park throughout the city’s history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n League veteran and wild shooter, Bob “Olmec” Weyersberg continues Jones’ thought:<\/p>\n We express our solidarity with the proletariat, the drug addicts, and the proletarian drug addicts.\u00a0 We also like our name for its reference to the Maurice Richard Riot (our team name was chosen on St. Patrick’s Day, the anniversary of said riot).\u00a0 The MR riot was a social justice riot for the French Canadians, who at the time were like blacks in pre-Mandela South Africa.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not simply a “sports riot”, though Montrealers have been known to overturn cars and set them on fire after first round play-off victories, so… that’s the humor in a serious subject?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nYear Founded:<\/strong> 2010
\nConference:<\/strong> Schumacher
\nDivision:<\/strong> MacNeil
\nHome Arena:<\/strong> Tompkins Square Park<\/p>\n