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I thought the celebration was great. After all, we were celebrating a championship.
Gee- and I got slammed for saying they shouldn't have scheduled it on Father' Day. Seems like the crowd was much less on the river, too.
I thought the celebration was great. After all, we were celebrating a championship.
Have NBA Championship celebrations jumped the shark for Spurs fans?
I honestly do not know one person who went.
I was watching at home - the whole thing from 5:30 - after 10
me, emo, the 2 kids, and my in-laws. So thats 6 people missingfrom the Dome bvut still celebrating in thier own half-drunk-WTG-Spurs way
Originally we were planning ot go to the parade, but my in-laws got loast coming here from N.B. then we watned to go to the Dome but with emo having to be at work at 5am and 2 kids under age 3 who NEED to be in bed at a reasonable time ot spare me a monday full of whiny crying and fit throwing....... well they shoulda done it Saturday.
but seriously, I <3 the spurs, I watched on TV and I bought enough t-shirts this year to wall paper the livingroom. I've done my part.
Couldn't make it. 1524 miles is a bit much. Stayed up to see it though, and I'm an hour ahead.
I went to the dome celebration. It was just a l-i-t-t-l-e less subdued than the 05 in general. I'm certain that 05' was a hairier ride because of
game 5 vs Detroit being such a nailbiter, and the length of the finals going 7 games, so a lot more emotion was generated at the 05 celeb.
There was less anxiety with this year's final, Father's Day, stuff that makes you think hmmmm, do I want to go and try to find seating at the dome, then fight traffic afterwards?
For me, helya!
I screamed, woofed, threw gritos, chanted players names while Bruce was describing the next player to be introduced, drank alcohol, and generally was as rowdy as I could be!
LOL! It was a lot of fun. The kids really enjoyed it -- they were grinning from ear to ear. It was a great celebration in honor of The Mighty Spurs and I was so glad to be there.
Yeah BlackFlagg, I went with my younger son (he's 22, dam where did the years go) and reminisced about how he and his older brother grew up with all those other previous championships and celebrations, the Spurs have a new crew of young people coming up to take our places when we're in our wheel chairs. Maybe I'll go to the dome celebration 30 years from now and still be raising !
200k at the river, and 40k stayed out until past 10:30 pm to hear Bruce tell lame jokes, and it's a bad thing? On a Sunday night, no less?
I'd like to see the TV ratings. I doubt if it sucked, 3 networks would have non-stop coverage from 5:00 - 10:30 pm.
Yup, it was Father's Day that day. I celebrated my Father's Day by staying at home and avoided the hot humid weather during the parade. Plus the ceremony started at 9PM. Way too late for me. People work on Mondays, in case they'd forgotten. If it was set up for Saturaday, that'd been a different story.
It wasn't as great as 2005's but it was still a celebration, I still had a good time. If Brent is still here for the next one I'd like to see him emcee the thing, he's got such a great sense of humor. I was waiting for "TPizzle" to lay down a rap, but he looked pretty bored/pissed off during the whole celebration.
Can anyone summarize what they did for the 2005 Alamodome celebration? I didn't see that one so I don't have anything to compare to this years. thanks
Nah, but it was Ticketmaster on that 1 nonsellout game in the WFC's though.
It's not the Spurs' fault that the EC served up such a ing lame opponent, such that the series was over after 3 games, anything after Game3 was an anti-climatic formality.
Just like it's not the Spurs' fault the Suns bench went onto floor and got suspended.
I'm personally disappointed that the Finals were not more exciting, somewhat diminishing the pleasure of the le.
by the way, a comment from a friend, in response to me sending him the KTAR/asterisk URL:
"I spoke with a neighbor of mine this afternoon, and he spent last week in
Phoenix. He told me the negativity surrounding the Spurs' win over the Suns
is both ugly and nearly palpable. He said he has never seen such hate
spewed toward a sports team. Just flat pathetic."
Suns fans suck
Suns suck
Phoenix sucks
AZ sucks.
PHX is gonna get clobbered by global warming and drought (not that SA is super well-supplied with water).
pics?
link?
OK, exstatic, if the place wasn't full, home come there were people sitting behind the stage?
I have to be honest, after a while I got kind of bored. I know SA was celebrating the Spurs championship but Bowen just went on and on. Even some of the players looked bored! Jackie Butler, Melvin Ely and Robert Horry all looked like they rather be doing something else. Might it be time to change it up a bit for the next time?
By the way, was David Robinson there?
I'll admit to not going- not because of Father's day either.
I don't want to say I wasn't feeling it because I watched and enjoyed all the coverage from home.
I celebrated, just differently this year.
The team seemed to have a great time along with the people who did go down and to me that is what matters more than the numbers.
I really liked Timmy, Gino, Finley, Fabri ( he spoke right- or am I mixing the parade and alamodome) and Rob's speeches.
I would have liked to have heard from all the guys- Beno especially ( Hush all of you!)
I loved the guys demonstrating their special cheer at the end. That was cute.
I missed the extras from 05 like the guys hamming it up while showing off their trophies and Tony rapping.
Still, it was a very nice night and I am glad I watched it.
I agree about Brent emceeing. No one, no matter how good humored, has anything on Brent- he is just too funny!
I saw Tony's album at HEB today. I am going to wait for it to hit the dollar store and then will buy a copy.
The WNBA needs to ing die. What a waste of money that is...
Nothing could compare to Tony Parker rapping in 2005. That was awesome.Can anyone summarize what they did for the 2005 Alamodome celebration? I didn't see that one so I don't have anything to compare to this years. thanks
Can anyone summarize what they did for the 2005 Alamodome celebration? I didn't see that one so I don't have anything to compare to this years. thanks
All the players greeted the crowd. Rasho said, " There isn't much to say but 'Whoosh, this feels good."
Manu said, " Wow, gracias ( to the applause he got) and then said he wasn't leaving town until we had won another championship."
( He needs to amend that now to " I won't leave until we repeat.
Robert Horry said that " His three favorite words are now " Go Spurs Go."
Those are the ones I remember. Good times.
But nothing, not even Rasho's speech, compares to Pop's speech in the parade this year, the part when Pop grinned and said, " We kicked ass!"
That was awesome!
All the players greeted the crowd. Rasho said, " There isn't much to say but 'Whoosh, this feels good."
Manu said, " Wow, gracias ( to the applause he got) and then said he wasn't leaving town until we had won another championship."
( He needs to amend that now to " I won't leave until we repeat.
Robert Horry said that " His three favorite words are now " Go Spurs Go."
Those are the ones I remember. Good times.
But nothing, not even Rasho's speech, compares to Pop's speech in the parade this year, the part when Pop grinned and said, " We kicked ass!"
That was awesome!
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