The Dot Races have been violated!!!

[Useruser666]

One of the long standing traditions at Spurs games is the regular running of the dots on the jumbotron. It's basically three different color computer animated dots that race around a track and randomly finish 1st-2nd-3rd. It's a fun little stunt as people cheer on their favorite color "dot". The always funny, "Please, no wagering on the race!" announcment that precludes the bit, is good for a laugh.

But what the hell has happened to it? Valero, which is growing in fame for turning every Diamond Shamrock "Corner store" into some gaudy sea-green/raspa vomit colored ice house has stuck it's nose somewhere it doesn't belong. THEY CHANGED THE GREEN DOT INTO THE SEA_GREEN/RASPA BARF COLOR! AND MORE HORRIFICALLY, THE BLUE DOT IS NOW YELLOW!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

What fun is the bit now? How can you turn to the person next to you and say, "I bet the sea-green/raspa upchuck dot wins!" How can you chant, "Go sea-green/raspa puke dot, sea-green/raspa hurl dot, sea-green/raspa chunks dot!" It doesn't work. It never will work. It's blasphemy! Change it back Valero, change it back now! Don't just toss aside tradition for your ugly company colors. Don't ruin a good thing!

I know you'll do the right thing!

Useruser666 SOD chairman

Sons Of the Dot-races

[angel_luv]

I feel your outrage. Green was my color! I say we sue or something!

[Ginofan]

I knew things were going bad once they added in the "pit stop". :(

[SpursWoman]

I thought it was just my eyes

[samikeyp]

Yet another time-honored sports tradition defiled by corporate whoring.

I am sad for the future generations who will not know the splendor that was the dot races. :depressed

[angel_luv]

I knew things were going bad once they added in the "pit stop". :(


What did they call it before? I forget.

[samikeyp]

There wasn't one to begin with. Sad...truly sad.

[angel_luv]

There wasn't one to begin with. Sad...truly sad.


But there was last year right? Didn't the dots stop to fill up before the final lap?

[samikeyp]

Oh...I don't know about last year...I haven't seen them in awhile, so they may have changed.

[Old School Chic]

Gee, I didn't think the Dot Races meant so much... I will talk to Director of guest services and see what we can do... :spin

[angel_luv]

Gee, I didn't think the Dot Races meant so much... I will talk to Director of guest services and see what we can do... :spin


I think you told me... but where in the SBC Center do you work again?

[Old School Chic]

I think you told me... but where in the SBC Center do you work again?

Legal dept/Administrative Office. :spin

[angel_luv]

Too bad you don't work in the suites office.. that is right across from me. =)

[Trainwreck2100]

That is some shit right there, blue was always my homie. Sad to see him in the unemployment line.

[Notorious H.O.P.]

I'm a blue dot kinda guy myself and consider this an outrage! Feel free to donate my vBookie cash to the effort to Restore Our Dots.

[Extra Stout]

Y'all are lucky they only changed the colors, and didn't turn the dot races into the "Hummer H3 Races by Ancira Cadillac/Saab/Hummer" with H3s in "Arctic Blue," "Volcanic Red," and "Longmont Green."

[spurschick]

I'm all about the red. Can't go wrong with red.

[Old School Chic]

I submitted a guest service request for the DOTS to go back to their normal colors. Let's cross our fingers and let's hope they change them soon.

[fraga]

Who'd have thought people would be so concerned about Dots...

[SpursWoman]

I'm all about the red. Can't go wrong with red.

Me, too. :tu

[Extra Stout]

It's time's like this that I wish we never sold the Grizz. At least you all have a "dot-race" to watch :depressed
Do they not do the dot races at Canuckistani hockey games? What do they have? Maple leaf races? Those curling things? Moose?

[Shelly]

I thought it was just my eyes


How many of those $10 margaritas did you have? :lol

SBCgirl, Can't you tell them that they don't have the rights play, "Y'all Ready For This?"

PLEASE????

[strangeweather]

Sigh. You're my boy, Blue. :depressed

[Kori Ellis]

It amazes me to this day that people cheer for a particular dot in the dot races. The first time I saw it, I was flabbergasted. Now I just try to ignore that segment. :lol

But you are right, shouting "Teal" or "Mustard" isn't the same as "Green" or "Blue". :rolleyes

[CosmicCowboy]

Fuck the dot races...I'll bet I have lost $500 over the years on those damn things...I NEVER pick the right color... :depressed

[Old School Chic]

How many of those $10 margaritas did you have? :lol

SBCgirl, Can't you tell them that they don't have the rights play, "Y'all Ready For This?"

PLEASE????

That song gets on my nerves... I'm surprised the Silver Dancers are still smiling to It.

[SpursWoman]

Fuck the dot races...I'll bet I have lost $500 over the years on those damn things...I NEVER pick the right color... :depressed


Don't feel bad, the Flip-Fone-Frenzy is rigged, too. :flipoff :lol

[T Park]

It amazes me to this day that people cheer for a particular dot in the dot races

And people wonder why the NBA looks down their collective noses at us.


We cheer for fucking Dots. Are you kidding me??

Just get rid of the whole fucking thing. Thing was the dumbest thing Ive ever seen in my life.

[T Park]

Also, its a song.

Come on......

[Old School Chic]

And people wonder why the NBA looks down their collective noses at us.


We cheer for fucking Dots. Are you kidding me??

Just get rid of the whole fucking thing. Thing was the dumbest thing Ive ever seen in my life.

User Is going to kick your butt!

[j-6]

The AAC in Dallas does a dot race sponsored by Ozarka, and the people there are just as nutty about it as Spurs fans.

[GoSpurs21]

It amazes me to this day that people cheer for a particular dot in the dot races. The first time I saw it, I was flabbergasted. Now I just try to ignore that segment. :lol

But you are right, shouting "Teal" or "Mustard" isn't the same as "Green" or "Blue". :rolleyesyou must not gamble on the segment like some of us do
although I dont really chear unless Blue wins

[T Park]

User Is going to kick your butt!

Nahh, he likes me.

I sat next to him at a post GTG, he didn't give me too many ugly looks...

[SpursWoman]

And people wonder why the NBA looks down their collective noses at us.


We cheer for fucking Dots. Are you kidding me??

Just get rid of the whole fucking thing. Thing was the dumbest thing Ive ever seen in my life.


My kids love it....so do all of the other little kids I see around me that cheer for it.

The guys have the dancers, the girls have the players, and the kids have the dot races. Fun for the whole family. :)

[Old School Chic]

Nahh, he likes me.

I sat next to him at a post GTG, he didn't give me too many ugly looks...

Then stop picking on the DOTS...

[T Park]

As a paying season ticket holder SBCGirl, I believe I have a right to complain about it :)

[SpursWoman]

As a paying season ticket holder SBCGirl, I believe I have a right to complain about it :)


Then so does User. :spin

[Useruser666]

None of that changes the fact that Valero has ugly gas stations. :lol

[T Park]

That Ill agree with.


Then so does User

I trump him cause I sit lower.


No, Im kidding.


I just think its funny hes getting semi worked up over a computer generated commercial.

[SpursWoman]

I just think its funny hes getting semi worked up over a computer generated commercial.


You know it was a joke, right? :lol

[pache100]

I feel your outrage. Green was my color! I say we sue or something!

Me, too, I always picked GREEN! I did think the pit stop was kind of cute, though.

[Useruser666]

It is a joke. A joke on us all that Valero has pulled just in the name of big corp!

[angel_luv]

Me, too, I always picked GREEN! I did think the pit stop was kind of cute, though.


You are good people. I like it too.

And I love the flip phone game. I get annoyed when people want to be seated when I am playing. Haha!

[Sonia_TX]

Noooooo... I always picked green!

[ObiwanGinobili]

How many of those $10 margaritas did you have? :lol

SBCgirl, Can't you tell them that they don't have the rights play, "Y'all Ready For This?"

PLEASE????



:lmao :lmao :lmao
I heard them play that tuesday night and the 1st thought thru my head was :
" somewhere Shelly is puking" :lol

[ObiwanGinobili]

Blue was my Dot.
I picked him to win during the March game when I did the Coyote Races... he won!! I saw it as a sign of things to come, sure enough I won the Coyote race.

I;ve stuck with Blue ever since .. he;s da man!! I can;t belive he got downsized!!!