Damn let me take my memory back to 92-93. I was living in what now is considered the East Side of Fresno. It may be a long reply but I feel that this may clear up some confusion. (even though honestly I lived thru it and I am still confused with mutts).
It was like me and 15 homeboys which was a small street but we all kicked it. We all banged Illinois street F-14. This was back in the late eighties. at that time F-14 didnt mean bulldog or anything. It meant that you were a norteno from FRESNO.
N E ways we ran with a couple of streets around the east but mainly kept to ourselves, there was a lot of shooting and fighting over streets back then.
Then streets started joining together to fight other streets. I mean literally Illinois and I think it was Mckinzey st. started kicking it which was unheard of cause we had fallen homies on both sides that were killed by both streets. I swear I couldnt understand why I was asked to run with them by the veteranos. but I listened to them and kept it cool with Mckinzey. We would always war with the East Side. I didnt get it till I went to juvenille hall.
I learned there that older homies from Fresno were causing problems in the pennitentaries. I learned that some fools from Fresno didnt carry out orders from Higher Powers and back stabbed some San Jo enes. I also learned that those fools always caused problems in the pen and that they specifically claimed F-14, which meant Fresno norte. They felt that Fresno was so big and bad ass that they didnt need to take orders from higher powers that never been to Fresno. The problem that they were causing in the pen amplified with the defiance and back stabbing of some Fresno ene's. This act lead them to virtually say fuck it we arent Norte N E more we stand alone, fuck it I am F-14. I aint norte or sur I am F-14. so it wasnt like they were like I am still norte, they just kept their name F-14 since they already gained a rep from it in the pens as disloyalists.
In juvenille hall it seemed like everyone from the East side was sticking with the name F-14 in their varrios. I swear fools had famero birds and stars tatted on them were in juvi saying fuck norte F-14. shit had me confused. I came out angered by this and put all past hatred with other streets and joined them in claiming Fresno Norte No mas. (Fresno only norte) It wasnt an offical gang but it was enes that saw what would happen in the future and tried to keep F-14 to a minimum. It was hard since the East side was the most populated with cholos and the most Veteranos were there. It seemed like all the nortenos 16 and up in the early 90's in the east side kept choosing to claim F-14 and other loyal enes quickly droped F-14.
You see in Fresno in 93 if you were claiming F-14 that meant that you knew that F-14 was causing shit in the pens with norte and that sur had red lights for you in the pen. the reason sur had red lights (protection) for F-14's is cause they knew that it would weaken norte in the pen. It also meant that you were a bulldog. which at that time period meant you felt that F-14 could stand alone and that it was a nation of cholos from Fresno that didnt have to pay taxes or answer to sur or norte.
On the streets in the early 90's nortenos would war with F-14 bulldogs. There was so much confusion cause F-14's had the advantage of having norteno tatts so they could lie about their affiliation to suit their surrondings.
Now to explain the picture (remember keep the 93 year mentality I gave you above) F-14 east side was meant to show nortenos that knew, that they were growing and that they were separating. They wore red shorts and flue shoes to show that they weren't norte or sur. now that norte scratched in confuses me still I have no explaination for that. like I said in 93 F-14 meant that you were not norte any more.
maybe the mutt was lit when he sent it out he scratched the wronog grafitti on it???????????????????????
FRESNO COUNTY NORTE
ALWAYS BANGED THE NORTH/ NEVER SWITCHED BACK AND FORTH
Hopefully my long ass explanation could help explain how far the bulldog movement was during 93. 96-99 thats when F-14 really got dropped and bulldog replaced it as a signifier.