The name choice was highly debated. We had boring names, like LF Blog to randomness like “Helmet Potting.”
In the end, our name encompasses who we are. Webster defined the word “mavericks” as an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party. And that’s what we are. You don’t stay in business for over 100 years by doing what everyone else does.
Here are our top ten mavericks of all time.
10. John McCain – he only gets on the list because he made the word more mainstream. Honestly, the last time you heard the word Maverick, Tina Fey was on SNL squawking “you betchas.”
9. Tom Cruise, in Top Gun – yeah, it was a movie. But at the end of the day he did things his own way. He won the battle and got the girl.
8. Dirk Nowitzki - Dirk and the Dallas Mavericks’s would have beaten the Miami Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals if Nowitzki wasn’t such a maverick. Up two games to none in a best of seven series, Nowitzki only made 20 of his last 55 shots in the final three games as the Mavericks lost the Finals series 4–2 to the Heat. Pass the ball Dirk!
7. Bret Maverick, Mel Gibson’s character in the 1994 movie, Maverick. Yes it was a movie, but just like Tom Cruise in Top Gun, Maverick won the poker game, reconnected with his father and got the girl.
6. Frank Sinatra – check the lyrics to the song “My Way”
I’ll post our top five mavericks later this week.
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I can only say thanks, this post has actually helped me with something
Thanks for reading, Solar Panel Installation – glad to offer some maverick support.
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