The team introduced an alternate jersey in 2002 that is blue with black shoulder stripes.

Carolina debuted the alternate light blue jersey for one game at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

The team introduced an alternate black jersey in 2002.

New Orleans Saints alternate uniform: 2002 season

In 2002, the Saints wore black pants with their white jerseys ( except for the final road game, a 20 – 13 loss in Cincinnati when they went back to the gold pants ), and gold pants with their black jerseys, a gold alternate jersey, and a 1967-style throwback uniform, complete with an accurate 1967-era helmet which featured a larger fleur-de-lis, a darker shade of gold and grey facemasks.

The team introduced a gold alternate jersey ( worn with the black pants ) during a December 15, 2002 game versus the Minnesota Vikings, a 32 – 31 loss, but have never worn them since then.

From 2003 through 2008, the New England Patriots had a " light " jersey ( their alternate, a bright metallic silver ) that isn't white in which the other team would wear their colored, or " dark " jerseys against them since the third jersey rule was implemented in the NFL in 2002.

Throwback uniforms worn in 1994 ( NFL 75th anniversary ) and 2009 ( AFL 50th anniversary ); blue throwback also used in 2000 for Chargers ' 40th anniversary and as an alternate jersey from 2002 to 2006 ..

From 2002 to 2006, the Chargers used the early-1960s powder blue uniforms as alternate jerseys, which many football fans ( both of the Chargers and of other teams ) clamored for the team to bring back full-time.

* Sasquatch, an alternate title for the 2002 horror film The Untold

Paramount released Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray Disc on June 9, 2009 with several bonus features from the original 2002 " Special Collector's Edition " DVD, including commentary by director Adrian Lyne, cast and crew interviews, a look at the cultural phenomenon of the movie, a behind-the-scenes look, rehearsal footage, alternate ending, and original theatrical trailer ( both in high definition ).

# Antropophagus ( original title: Antropophagus ; alternate titles: Anthropophagous, Anthropophagous: The Beast, Antropofago, Gomia, Terror en el Mar Egeo, Man Beast, Man-Eater, The Savage Island ) – released with approximately 2 minutes of pre-cuts as The Grim Reaper in 2002.

The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ) is an alternate history novel with major Buddhist and Islamic religious elements written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world history.

* Carolina Panthers – Introduced a " Carolina blue " alternate in 2002.

* Cleveland Browns – An orange alternate of the current design was worn from 2002 – 04.

The team introduced an orange alternate in 2002, which will become the team's new primary home jersey beginning in 2012.

* New Orleans Saints – Wore a gold alternate ( treated as a " white " jersey ) in 2002 vs Minnesota and also wore their original 1967 throwbacks vs Tampa Bay in the same season.

* San Diego Chargers – Reintroduced the popular " powder blue " Chargers uniforms from the 1960s as an alternate in 2002.

They solely wore these silver alternate jerseys at away playoff games during the 2002 NBA Playoffs, including the 2002 NBA Finals.

The Portland Trail Blazers reintroduced red uniforms in the 2002 – 03 season, this time as an alternate to their classic black and white uniform sets.

* Los Angeles Lakers – white alternates since 2002 in honor of commentator Chick Hearn ; one of two teams to wear third jersey at home, only worn on Sundays or holidays, and can be used in some Sunday road games where the home team wears an alternate jersey.

* Miami Heat – red alternates from 1995 to 2000, again since 2002 ; all-black alternate since 2011.

* Tanner, Stephen ( 2002 ) Afghanistan: a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban Da Capo Press, New York, ISBN 0-306-81164-2, also available from NetLibrary

In the 2002 national election, a new party founded by former PLN Congressman and government Minister Ottón Solís captured 26 % of the vote, forcing a runoff election for the first time in the country's history.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.

The Marlins also turned their first ever triple play in franchise history on July 28, 2002.

Explaining the internal impact of the DDR regime from the perspective of German history in the long term, historian Gerhard A. Ritter ( 2002 ) has argued that the East German state was defined by two dominant forces – Soviet Communism on the one hand, and German traditions filtered through the interwar experiences of German Communists on the other.

* Paul Bew, Peter Gibbon, Henry Patterson, Northern Ireland 1921-2001 ; Political Forces and Social Classes ( Serif, 2002 ) ISBN 978-1-897959-38-1 http :// www. serifbooks. co. uk / books / history /

* The 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, jointly celebrated by the two countries in 2002, was a significant landmark in the history of this friendship.

* 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.

* 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.

* 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

In 2002, the Royals set a new team record for futility, losing 100 games for the first time in franchise history.

The Brewers finished 2002 even worse, finishing with a dismal 56 – 106 record, 41 games out of first place, the worst record in franchise history.

In 2002 he became the only driver in Formula One history to finish in the top three in every race of a season and then also broke the record for most consecutive podium finishes.

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

The Saints failed to make the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, although in the latter year they had the distinction of beating the eventual Super Bowl XXXVII champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in both of their regular season meetings, only the second team to do so in NFL history.

In South Australia, for the first time in the Nationals ' history, in 2002 the single Nationals member in the House of Assembly entered the Rann Labor Government as a Minister forming an informal coalition between the two parties.

However, the theory was revived and expanded by Elisabeth Sears in Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose ( 2002 ), and Hank Whittemore in The Monument ( 2005 ), an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets which interprets the poems as a poetic history of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford, and Southampton.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

Kool Moe Dee adds, “ in 2002 Eminem created the song that got the first Oscar in Hip-Hop history

The Barrett M82 is credited with a maximum effective range of ; and it was with a. 50BMG caliber McMillan TAC-50 rifle that Canadian Master Corporal Rob Furlong made the longest recorded ( until 2010 ) confirmed sniper kill in history, when he shot a Taliban fighter at a range of in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 2002.

Hired as a replacement to Riley, Marty Schottenheimer's Chargers squad opened the 2002 season with four straight victories making him the only coach in team history to win his first four games.

Congress passed and President Bush signed the Homeland Security Act of 2002, creating the Department of Homeland Security, representing the largest restructuring of the U. S. government in contemporary history.

Labor won the 2002 election in a landslide, taking 62 seats out of 88 in the Legislative Assembly -- only the third time in Victoria's history that a Labor government had been reelected.

Tommy Womack, a singer / songwriter from Nashville, sings a mostly biographical song called " The Replacements " recounting the history and histrionics of the band on his 2002 Circus Town CD.