Temple rode the NYC subway to its March Madness game in Brooklyn
If you base your sports allegiances on whether teams use environmentally-conscious public transportation to reach their athletic contests, the Temple Owls should be your favorite March Madness squad.
Temple's opening game Friday was at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. But the Owls didn't take a private bus to the game, like most teams do.
Nope: Temple took the subway. (Insert string of "100" emojis here.)
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The team's Twitter account shared photos from the commute, dubbing the Owls the "team of the people."
Temple's Twitter account also shared this video montage of the trip -- complete with the perfect soundtrack.
The people's champs didn't get off to a fast start after their subway ride, however. Seeded 10th in the South region, Temple lost to 7-seed Iowa on a buzzer-beating overtime tip-in.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
