2019-20 Canes Miscellaneous News Thread
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I used to go to see the wrestling on college nights at Dorton back in the day. It was basically the same crowd. Rough and tumble covers it pretty well.
Paulie Walnuts
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Believe it or not, the paper printed the results of pro wrestling matches. they were on Tues. at Dorton except during the fair. I went to WRAL to see them tape 2 wrestling shows. It was interesting to say the least.
Yeah ... it was a sociology experiment for me, at best. Those college nights (first Tuesday of the month, half off the gate with a college ID, IIRC) were pure weirdness.
My first game was a WHA game at Madison Square Garden on a trip with the Boy Scouts. It was the New York Golden Blades against who knows. And the Golden Blades were only the Golden Blades for 20 games in 1973 before they moved from MSG to Cherry Hill, NJ and became the Jersey Knights. Rangers tickets were expensive and hard to come by, the Islanders were too far away and the Devils didn’t exist until 1982.
My first NHL game was Rangers/Flyers game 5 of the 2nd round of the 1979 playoffs in Philly. A fellow Rangers fan and I got tickets a couple of days before the game. When we saw where they were, we were a little concerned for our safety. Fortunately, the section was mostly Rangers fans and they closed out the Flyers 8-3.
My first NHL game was Rangers/Flyers game 5 of the 2nd round of the 1979 playoffs in Philly. A fellow Rangers fan and I got tickets a couple of days before the game. When we saw where they were, we were a little concerned for our safety. Fortunately, the section was mostly Rangers fans and they closed out the Flyers 8-3.
Paulie Walnuts
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I saw a Rangers game at MSG for my first game around 1969. Can't recall who they played or the outcome.
Paulie Walnuts
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First NFL game was Boston Patriots at Jets at Shea. We even left mass early to get there , we took the train. Looks like it was 67 and the Jets won 30-23. Also in 68 the Jets played Boston at Legion field in Birmingham during the regular season. I wonder how that happened.
HockeyPat
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Oh yeah! That's why I eventually went to about 20 Ice Cap games...and never figured out why the would all of a sudden stop. (It was that damn two lined pass crap). They only player I remember is Lyle Wildgoose. Dude had more fights in one game then most players had in a career.
We came for the beer and fights. We were not disappointed.
Wasn't the miracle at Molson game 4? We were down 2-1 in games IIRC.
I think I went to 3 Giants games at Yankee Stadium. I remember seeing Tom Dempsey in one and another where the Giants beat the Eagles 62-10 In 1972
Bat Day was an annual tradition too, even though my father hates baseball. It was the one game a year he’d take my brother and me too. First game was 1968, Mickey Mantle’s last season. The next year, almost everyone got a Mantle bat. My brother’s favorite player was Roy White and the kid next to us had one of those bats. My father leaned over and said. “Kid, how’d you like to trade that Roy White for a Mickey Mantle”. He couldn’t hand over the bat quick enough.
Bat Day was an annual tradition too, even though my father hates baseball. It was the one game a year he’d take my brother and me too. First game was 1968, Mickey Mantle’s last season. The next year, almost everyone got a Mantle bat. My brother’s favorite player was Roy White and the kid next to us had one of those bats. My father leaned over and said. “Kid, how’d you like to trade that Roy White for a Mickey Mantle”. He couldn’t hand over the bat quick enough.
Correctomundo, it is game 4. We broke Jose Theodore that night, he had allowed 4 goals total in the first 3 games, gave up 4 in game 4, then 5 in each of the next 2 games. Stéphane Fiset gave up the last 3 goals in game 6
LJG
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First NHL game was vs. the Rangers w/ that first G'boro year (won't swear to it, drank my fill that night). I clearly recall Gretzky sauntering down the wing in NY zone toward our seats, puck is passed to him, then a harmless looking wrist shot from near the dot is in the back of the net.
First MLB game was at the Mistake on the Lake and I was so young all I recall is a column in front and to left of me.
For oddball game experiences, I got high at a Mets game in Shea in 85/86 sitting behind the plate up high. Dude behind me was impressed with my pipe.
First MLB game was at the Mistake on the Lake and I was so young all I recall is a column in front and to left of me.
For oddball game experiences, I got high at a Mets game in Shea in 85/86 sitting behind the plate up high. Dude behind me was impressed with my pipe.
Paulie Walnuts
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A rare thing happened to Gretzky in Greensboro , he was ejected from the game. Don't know if it was year 1 or 2.
HeyKurtz
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Guilty are charged...grew up going to games at the Nassau Coliseum between about 1975 and 1982...in my Rick MacLeish Flyers jersey, of course!
HeyKurtz
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I was there. The highlight of the Greensboro years. It was in the first season in the very first visit the Rangers made here.
bagopux
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We would always go to banner day at Shea. At least I think we would. It was a long time ago. At least my dad loved baseball, though.
Was at Shea to see Seaver pitch one of his many one-hitters (vs. the Cubs) in 1977. Steve Ontiveros clean single in the 5th inning... grrr. And we still don't have a legit no-hitter!!!