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Binghamton Rumble Ponies to play as Southern Tier Scoop Scoundrels – SportsLogos.Net News

For the second year in a row, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Double-A affiliate of the New York Mets in the Eastern League, will base an alternate identity on an obscure Blue Law from their home state. Last year, the team played as the Bathtub Donkeys, commemorating a law that makes it unlawful for a donkey to sleep in a bathtub. This season, the Rumble Ponies will take the field as the Southern Tier Scoop Scoundrels.

This particular law makes it illegal for a person to carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket on Sundays. While there’s no documentation that details the reasoning behind the law, there are theories. One posits that eating ice cream at all on Sunday may have been illegal, and so therefore trying to hide an ice cream cone in your back pocket to prevent detection would be illegal. Another theory suggests that horse thieves may have tried to lure targets away with back pocket ice cream.

Whatever the reason for it, the Rumble Ponies’ Southern Tier Scoop Scoundrels brand features a masked ice cream cone character in an Old West cowboy hat. A wordmark features swoopy text dotted with maraschino cherries.

The geographic signifier Southern Tier represents a loosely defined geographic region along the state’s southern border with Pennsylvania. It’s not the first time the team has used the geographic signifier—last season, the Rumble Ponies played a few games as the Southern Tier Spicy Meatballs.

The Scoop Scoundrels will take to the field July 17–19, 2026.

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