The other day, I professed ingnorance on why the Atlanta A-League team might be named "Siverbacks". I received a nice note from Marty, giving some background on the name:

I'm sure that unless you're from the southeast(and maybe even unless you're from the Atlanta area...), that you probably WOULDN'T know why our team is called the Silverbacks. It actually IS relevant to Atlanta, in a way. The Atlanta Zoo was always famous (locally, at least...) for their gorillas (silverbacks). One in particular -- named Willie B. -- was almost as much of an Atlanta institution as Hank Aaron, and it was REALLY big news here when he died a few years back.

Who knew? Thanks to Marty for the 411.