engineer see robert truax . enthusiasts wearing zubaz brand pants at the 2008 zubaz fan club barbecue in choctaw oklahoma . green bay packer and zubaz enthusiasts take over the san diego boardwalk before the green bay packers and san diego chargers game on november 6 2011 . zubaz zu b z zoo baz 1 is a brand of shorts and pants that became popular during the early 1990s . history and description edit in 1988 bob truax and dan stock began brainstorming a new kind of shorts for the heavy lifting man . 2 the pair developed a comfortably baggy pair of shorts with an elastic waistband . zubaz was registered as a trademark in 1989 . initially they were marketed as a comfortable functional pair of shorts for weightlifting . 3 hegstrand and laurinaitis used their professional wrestling personae as the road warriors to help popularize the pants in the late 1980s and early 1990s . 3 they hoped to make a pair of shorts that would stretch and expand with the body during a workout . in a short time the shorts became wildly popular in the united states . the zubaz company sold 100 million worth of products in 1991 alone . the company slogan was dare to be different . although zubaz began as a line of shorts the brand was extended into long pants caps shirts and even diapers . the pants are tapered at the ankle with the outer part of the leg being longer than the inner part . they have an elastic waistband to allow for greater flexibility and movement . the pants were originally created in a zebra print but later began to be sold in almost any design imaginable . regardless of the specific design zubaz are almost always bright flashy and often ostentatious . zubaz designed the uniforms of several arena football league teams in the early 1990s including the tampa bay storm and the now defunct new orleans night . however these designs were considered outlandish and were soon replaced . in a 1993 survey in inside sports magazine zubaz finished third in the voting for worst thing to happen in sports that year . ahead of it were the retirement of michael jordan and the death of wrestler dino bravo . the long pants were the most popular item in the product line . despite the decline in popularity fans still sometimes wear zubaz pants in team colors at professional football games . zubaz manufactured slider shorts . these shorts had the famous wild patterns at the bottom of the garment while the rest of the garment displayed the name and logo of the sport team and the zubaz name . the original business went bankrupt in 1996 3 and truax and stock bought back the trademark rights . in 2007 zubaz resurfaced offering a limited production release of the original classic zubaz patterns . in 2014 the brand fully resurfaced with a wider selection on its internet storefront . 4 in another sign of the resurrection of the zubaz brand on july 16 2008 the saint paul saints independent professional baseball team wore zubaz pants during their game against the sioux city explorers . the bases were also painted in a recognizable zubaz tiger striped pattern . on the december 6 edition of professional wrestling tv show tna impact christopher daniels and kazarian wrestled the main event in pink and black zubaz pants . lately the russian curling team wore kansas city chiefs pants in the 2014 winter olympics . the detroit tigers also recently wore the zubaz pants . 5 1990s portal references edit about us the pant the myth the legend ... zubaz.com a brief history of zubaz mental floss . trex ethan . 2011 . a b c zubaz pants are back her n m rquez estrada minneapolis star tribune march 24 2008 . http www.startribune.com zubaz pants are back 16943196 http bleacherreport.com articles 2068425 detroit tigers invade cleveland dressed in full zubaz external links edit official website zubaz on twitter zubaz on facebook retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zubaz & oldid 742556564 categories 1980s fashion1990s fashionsports clothingtrousers and shortscompanies based in minnesotasportswear brandsmartial arts cultureprofessional wrestling navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 11 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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