In 1902, escaping persecution from football partisans, 500 rabid basketball fans drove west in their racecars in search of a new homeland.
They wound up in the middle of present-day Indiana, built a capital, and named it after the settler who arrived there first, Joe Indianapolis.
The rest of the state was named after the other drivers: John Evansville, Alan Bloomington, Morgan Terrehaute, Gary Gary, Anthony Kokomo, Myron Fortwayne, Thomas Frenchlick, ...
