User:Superman6to9/VDP!

Overview

VDP! is the common abbreviation for the popular Charlotte, North Carolina based sports team and rap group Vulgar Display of Power! The infamous group got their start in Boone, North Carolina at Appalachian State University when Benjamin "Superman" Deming, David "Psycho Icon" Alfiero, Sebastian "T-Minus" Tellez and Jeremy "Black Knight" Singleton made the bold decision to part ways with The Mad Cows and form their own dominate sporting franchise. The team went on to be widely successful at Appalachian State and in Charlotte, becoming both well known and much hated.

Sporting Teams


 * The Appalachian Years (2004 - 2008)

The VDP! epidemic started with just one men's flag football team in the fall of 2005, which quickly developed an on-field rivalry with The Mad Cows in both men's and co-rec flag football. VDP! branched out from the flag football field to have a men's basketball team, co-rec basketball team, dodgeball team, men's and co-rec arena football teams, a soccer team and a men's 4 on 4 flag football team. They won multiple championships in 4 of the 7 sports over 4 years at Appalachian State, including multiple wins over their rivals the Mad Cows.

The most famous game of the VDP! Appalachian years came in the spring of 2008, when the men's arena football team took the floor, 6 people strong in a 5 on 5 game and came out victorious by a score 123 to 27. The loser of this game would like to remain nameless, but the 96 point VDP! win was easily the highlight of the arena football season in the competitive division.


 * The Queen City Years (2006 - Present)

VDP!'s sporting success at Appalachian State was widely recognized and impossible to deny. The franchise quickly capitalized on their success by starting up a Charlotte, North Carolina based division specializing in summer based sports. Men's basketball was the first endeavour in Charlotte, followed later by a co-rec kickball team. This expanded the VDP! sports range and was widely popular with it's fan base and ever growing cult following. Future Charlotte VDP! sports teams are believed to include softball and another chapter of flag-football starting in the spring of 2011. Basketball and kickball will remain a staple of the VDP! franchise.


 * Uniform Evolution

The post-Mad Cow beginnings of VDP! saw the four founding fathers of the franchise reach out to local artists in Boone, NC to come up with their first official uniform. The look was a white with seafoam green air brushed t-shirt with VDP! on the front, accompanied by nicknames and numbers for each of the 4 founders on the back. This look quickly evolved into a dark green airbrush pattern for the next class of VDP! which wore them for the first year and a half of VDP!s existance.

This transformed drasticlly the following season when VDP! donned a orange with black lettering shirt across all sports. The oranges shirts became the standard for the groups Appalachian State chapter. This color choice became widely recognizable on campus and on the field, and was even the uniform of choice for the first summer league basketball team in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The orange didn't make the transition to full time Queen City apparel when the second season of summer league decided to change from orange to a black with carolina blue text. The new color scheme was a hit and the Charlotte chapter of VDP! has yet to change from the black and carolina colors.