The Indy Fuel are an ECHL Western Conference hockey team from, of course, Indianapolis, which might explain how this promotion got off the ground. Jim Davis, author of the Garfield comic strip, is also from Indiana — Marion, to be exact.
And so 40 or so innocent athletes will be forced to don these uniforms depicting a slovenly cat and his dimwit dog pal on Saturday, as the Fuel take on the visiting Evansville Icemen.
Garfield, it should be mentioned, is the most widely-circulated comic strip in the world, and has spawned TV series, more than one movie, and more toys and other products than can be pointed at with a stick.