The story could’ve ended there and it’d still be one for the record books, but it gets better. The tees featured a dunking skeleton on a tie-dye print in Lithuania’s national colours of red, yellow and green, and are as insane and great as they sound.
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Jerry Garcia and his merry band of madmen decided to foot the bill for Lithuania’s Olympic conquest, sending them all the funds they needed plus a huge box of now highly-coveted tie-dye shirts and shorts, created by the band’s own designer. And that’s where the Grateful Dead come in.Īfter seeing a profile of the team’s fundraising efforts in an article for the San Francisco Chronicle, Grateful Dead’s PR manager Dennis McNally showed the band, who decided that this was something forking out for. The story goes that in 1991, the new nation of Lithuania (who had just emerged from a 50-year USSR rule) were desperately looking for funds to send their men’s basketball team to the ’92 Barcelona Olympics.Īfter being freed from the Soviet bloc, Lithuania had a renewed sense of freedom but no money to scrape together for sending their basketball team to the Olympics. Sometimes a small nugget of knowledge rises to the top of the internet sludge pile, and today that nugget is the story of the Grateful Dead’s place in Lithuanian sports history.įor those unfamiliar with the tale of the 1992 Olympic Lithuanian team, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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