The Saint Paul Bouncing Team is loosely affiliated with the start of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival, which began in 1886, prompted by an article by a New York reporter who wrote in a previous year that Saint Paul was "another Siberia, unfit for human habitation" in winter.

Offended by this attack on their fair city, the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce decided to not only prove that the city was not only habitable but that its citizens were very much alive during winter. Thus was born the Saint Paul Winter Carnival...

Official Saint Paul Winter Carnival Website