History-making? You might say so.

After all these years, a New Orleans NBA team visits the Utah Jazz.

Which reminded me of a guy named Steven Brown, who won the contest for naming the NBA expansion franchise in 1974, who said he settled on "Jazz" because "it was the music Jelly Roll Morton invented in New Orleans."

Five years later, when the Jazz headed west, Brown was left with bittersweet feelings.

"At least they're going to keep the name I gave ?em," he mused. "I'm sure the Mormon Tabernacle Choir enjoys a good time as well as the rest of us. But naming a team the Utah Jazz is like naming a team from Miami the Zeppelins."