Milwaukee Bucks fans came dressed to impress for Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Fiserv Forum
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Milwaukee Bucks fans arrived to cheer on the team in pursuit of its first NBA championship in 50 years in style. Here are some of the best dressed fans we saw in Fiserv Forum and the Deer District.
John Rupcich of Madison, a Bucks season ticket holder, said he got his family and friends matching Ray Allen uniforms to wear for the playoffs. At least some of this crew got front row seats behind one of the baskets.
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Matt Troha wore (almost) everything in his closet
Few Bucks fans were more dressed in team gear than Matt Troha, who wore layers of beads, jerseys, shirts, a green wig, and a hat with antlers.
For Troha it started in 1997 when he got beads from the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl against the New England Patriots.
“I stared wearing (the beads from the Super Bowl) in the 1998 playoffs for the Bucks and I’ve been adding on every year since,” Troha said.
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Ron Workman, age 76, made the five-hour drive from Amery to Milwaukee this morning.
A puppeteer and ventriloquist, Workman wore a human-sized, wearable gorilla outfit and conducted a puppet. He built the outfit in 1991 and has used it for Brewers and Packers games, adding to it over the years. For the Bucks game, he added dollar bills to it to make it “buck themed.”
He remembers coming to Milwaukee 50 years ago when the team won its last championship. Since then, he’s been waiting, which makes this moment the more exciting, he said.
“We had to wait 30-something years for the Packers,” Workman said of Wisconsin fans. “So we’re used to waiting.”
Jackie McElmurry from New Berlin considers herself a Bucks “super fan.”
“I love my Bucks,” McElmurry said. “I was a ball girl when I was in high school and I always believed we can do this.”
Samantha Day from Milwaukee came to game 6 ready to call the game.
When asked about why she dressed up as a referee she said “just being different.”
“I just bought this today,” Day said.
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