When the collegiate summer time degree Clinton LumberKings introduced earlier this month that they deliberate to rebrand because the Shadflies for Friday evening video games this season, followers acknowledged the April Idiot’s prank instantly. Shadflies, additionally referred to as mayflies, are short-lived flying bugs that reside close to waterways—just like the Mississippi, which flows proper by the LumberKings’ riverfront ballpark.

The joke ended up being on the crew when followers responded that the crew ought to observe by means of with the alternate model. Lower than two weeks after April Idiot’s Day, the LumberKings introduced that they might certainly take the sphere because the Shadflies this season. (It’s noteworthy that if the LumberKings have been nonetheless affiliated, it will have taken effectively greater than a 12 months to finish the approval course of to make this occur.)

“The feedback really blew us away,” stated LumberKings normal supervisor Nate Vander Bleek on the crew’s web site. “When you get such a positive response, you have to give the people what they want.”