Were You a Spurs Fan 40 Years Ago? If so, Tell our Readers About Terry Stembridge

[Twisted_Dawg]

I remember his last game (was not 40 years - 1979) against the Washington Bullets...it was the same bs as when the lakers get the playoff calls and then the NBA promotes how great a franchise the lakers are. Spurs got robbed. Stembridge was great and yes, his last words as a Spurs announcer were, "there will be another night."

that was the third saddest sports day in my young life at the time. 1st - cowboys superbowl 10 loss to steelers, 2nd - the next superbowl loss to steelers, 3rd - spurs loss to bullets and stembridge's final signoff. all of these would be supplanted by the day Roger Staubach retired and then moved down a notch when Tom Landry got fired.

The Spurs getting robbed was the worst for me - as a very young man - I loved sports and the spurs enough and was also naive enough to believe it meant everything. The spurs on the team were also a team you grew to love and made it worse to see the refs rob them and hand the bullets the game. Spurs would have walked all over that Sonics team in the finals but instead the bullets got ass-raped.

My friend The Bullet, who was 16 at the time, tells a story of watching that robbery on TV and being so shocked and angered, that he ran out of his house and ran down to a drainage culvert where he cried his eyes out.

[Vito Corleone]

My dad took me to my first Spurs game back during the 1973-74 season. It was the spurs vs the St Louis Spirits. Don't remember who won, I don't remember if Gervin was on the team back then. I remember looking across and seeing all the service men in their cool uniforms all looking the exact same. I was very young about 5 years old and to this day I remember that those service men did a cheer that went like this.

Pop corn Pop Corn Crunch Crunch Crunch
Come on Spurs eat the Spirits Lunch

I have no idea why I remember that, but it was all part of my first real memory of my start at becoming a life long Spurs fan.

[Maddog]

My dad took me to my first Spurs game back during the 1973-74 season. It was the spurs vs the St Louis Spirits. Don't remember who won, I don't remember if Gervin was on the team back then. I remember looking across and seeing all the service men in their cool uniforms all looking the exact same. I was very young about 5 years old and to this day I remember that those service men did a cheer that went like this.

Pop corn Pop Corn Crunch Crunch Crunch
Come on Spurs eat the Spirits Lunch

I have no idea why I remember that, but it was all part of my first real memory of my start at becoming a life long Spurs fan.

Terry Stembridge to me -as a young kid-was the SPurs
I didn't really like anybody who replaced him
His tone, descriptions etc. Seemed to be very descriptive without a lot of verbiage

Nowadays with league pass and internet I rarely listen to radio broadcasts