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I missed the ABA days; got divorced the year the Spurs joined the NBA and have been going to games ever since
As long as y'all are there in the not so good years too, the only thing it means is that we older guys have more stories
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For real I don't know - I just found her in the internet.
It was a whole site of her gifs. I can look it up for you.
I missed the ABA days; got divorced the year the Spurs joined the NBA and have been going to games ever since
As long as y'all are there in the not so good years too, the only thing it means is that we older guys have more stories
This is my 9th season following the Spurs but since I'm 15 years old, I think that's saying a lot.
I was editor of the 2nd grade newspaper team and then something happened and I got put in charge of the sports section as well so that's when I really started paying attention to them (and I remember all those series against the Twolves, Lakers, the Blazers and finally the Knicks).
I moved to the Dallas area 4 years ago and I've been representing hard for the team since.
I've been a Spurs fan since they were leased from the Dallas ownership. Like some of the others in here, I went to games at Hemisfair Arena before they raised the roof on it. They raised the roof so that they could have an arena that would qualify, seating-wise, for the NBA. Iceman got 30 points easier than anyone I've ever seen. Several nights, Ice got a quiet 40. Then there was the time Ice went down with an injury and sat out a few games, so Ron Brewer (his son Ronnie Brewer is a rookie for the Jazz) started in Ice's place and he was given the scoring role. Ron did his best Iceman imitation and lit it up for 40+ points, 2 consecutive games. That offensive showcase ended up being just that, and Ron was traded to Cleveland not long after that along with Reggie Johnson for Mike Mitc . That was a shrewd deal.
The Hemisfair Arena truly was one of the noisiest arenas. My ears used to ring like I had been at a rock concert.
Franchise-wise, I even go back to the late 1960s. I went to 2 or 3 Dallas Chaparrals home games when I was a kid (before I ended up in San Antonio). I used to listen to Chaparrals PBP man Terry Stembridge on the radio. Terry moved with the team to San Antonio and was the "voice of the Spurs" in the early years.
New fans and old fans are all a part of the Spurs' community...no matter where in the world they reside.
Damn, some of you guys are old.
first game was in December of 1988.
starting 5, i can BARELY remember.
Johnny Dawkins
Alvin Robertson
Caddy Anderson
The other two I cannot remember.
But the earliest memories of childhood was on friday nights getting to watch the news, and Dan Cook recapping or talking about the Spurs.
Listening to Jay Howard talk about Reggie Williams, Frank Brickowski, David Windgate, Rocket Rod Strickland, Mike Mitc getting added as well as Johnny Moore. I remember everything Terry mings got a rebound they hung a "TC" up in the upper deck that was sponsored by Taco Cabana. I think one night he had 20 rebounds and they ran out of TCs
the promotionsBasket Tornado, and alot of others.
Remember when the only time the lights went off for introductions was for the playoffs and opening night because the lights didn't come on quick enough.
Truer words have never bean said.
I moved to San Antonio in '87 so I followed guys like J.R. Reid, mings, Dale Ellis. Anyone remember Nigel Knight? Anyone remember Strickland getting into fights at his favorite club on Austin Highway? Or the club that Cadillac Anderson and D-Rob owned by the medical center? The good old days when we had the Spurs all to ourselves and noone outside of 210 gave a crap!
Speaks the young fella
I became a Spurs fan back in 89 when I was 8 years old. My dad bought me this little David Robinson basketball and sat me down to watch games with him. By the next season my walls were adorned Spurs posters and I only rocked Spurs schools supplies like pencils, folders, spirals etc.
It was great growing up in SA because every year we'd have Johnny Moore or Terry mings or some other Spur visit us at school for an assembly. Those assemblies were only rivaled by visits from San Antonio's greatest ventriloquist, Nacho Estrada and his dummie Macolvio!
Ah memories.
I thought this thread was about ShoogarBear?
Hats off to fellow ol' schoolers Wildbill2u , Solid D, and Dav4463 for their good stories. Like many other "ol school" fans here, I also go back to the very early ABA days that signaled the Spurs arrival from Dallas. This pro basketball thing was totally new to everyone - especially to a young 11 year old boy and his impressionable friends.
Some of my fondest memories of that time are meeting up with my friends at the arena immediately after school. It was fun watching our local heroes (Gervin, Silas, Rich Jone, Bird Averritt, Swen Nater, et all) drive up in their customized Cadillacs, Corvettes and Lincoln Continentals (hey, we're talking about the 1970's).
We were just as excited to meet and greet other ABA notables like Artis Gilmore, Freddie Lewis, George McGinnis, M.L. Carr, Luther "Ticky" Burden, David Thompson, Julius Erving and my absolute favorite - Marvin "Bad News" Barnes (more on him later).
These guys were truly larger than life to us in every sense of the word. Their on-court exploits notwithstanding, they were all extremely nice guys and they seem to find amusement in a bunch of knucklehead kids that clamored for the honor of walking with along with them from the Hilton Palacio Hotel, to carrying their bags and, of course, begging for tickets.
Marvin was by far the coolest. most unusual cat we encountered. We got to know him quite well over the years and looked forward to his visits. He was an extremely talented ball player who could literally score in bunches without so much as a warmup. During one instance he arrived late to the arena (middle of 1st quarter) with a burger and fries in a bag, then went out and scored 30+ points and grabbed 15 boards easy.
Back in those days, the games were so sparsely populated that you could virtually sit anywhere in the arena - even front row!. Since we sat so close, we would often yell good-natured obscenties at Barnes just to try and throw him off. In return, he would point at us while he did his thing or simply give us wink of assurance as he shot his free throws.
After the games, my friends and I would clown around with Barnes at his hotel and he would tell us stories about the league and his various travels. When asked why he was late getting to the arena - he simply grinned. We all knew why he was late. He was a really, cool guy - and quite the ladies man too.
As someone mentioned earlier, it was a more innocent time and there wasn't much media coverage back then. By far, the Hemisfair Arena was the loudest arena in the league and the original Baseline Bums were legendary.
It's great to see and hear the stories from the mixing and mingling of everyone here. Whether they be old or new, foreign or domestic, it's that type of diversity that makes the Spurs community a really unique community.
Last edited by SenorSpur; 11-13-2006 at 07:21 PM.
lol. i was just thinking, imagine 20 years from now, we will be the old guys talking about the good ol days when the spurs used to play in the AT&T center, when Duncan was the man, and shaking our heads at the young bucks who wont know who ginobili, bruce and tony are
Dare I steal a line from Cuban, SFFL (Spurs Fan for Life)?
Most of my stories suck compared to these.
I did play a pickup game at LBJ where I guarded a Spur. Well, actually a future Spur. Keith Edmonson, who was the Big Daddy at MacArthur at the time.
And one time we bought tickets off the street to a Nuggets game at the HemisFair and ended up one row behind the Denver bench. So we spent all game yelling at Doug Moe, who occasionally would turn around and yell back. So that was fun. Also sat next to Gary DeLaune, who looked very green and sickly.
Was that from the reflection off his jacket?
I started watching the Spurs in 90 when David came into the league. I was watching with my bro and saw David dunk on some golden state warrior like he said something about his momma. After that I was hooked and cheered for the spurs no matter what. I remember Willie Anderson dunking on Horace Grant when the bulls came to town and even though we lost I was still happy to see that. I went to one game in the hemisfair arena which was loud as F**ck and a lot of games in the Dome but the seats sucked ass. I love the SBC.... oh sorry AT&T center now and the team is not so bad either.... haha. I love the Spurs and the fact that people realize what a great team we are from top to bottom its great.
By the way I am so glad they got rid of BOB BASS. That dude made the worst deals ever. Dennis Rodman for will perdue. 'nough said.
This was a wonderful post! Thank you so much.
Oh, yeah, I forgot I met Bob Bass once while we were both waiting for connections in (I think) Houston. That was the year Fennis Dembo was a senior at Wyoming and we talked about him for a while (at first he thought maybe I knew Fennis and I guess was trying to see if I had some scoop on him
Bass didn't always make the most brilliant of moves but the fact is he kept the Spurs afloat and in the top tier of teams when they had even cheaper ownership than they do now. And he also did a good job with the Hornets with another bad owner.
I was just so dissapointed with the moves he made because it seemed we always were on the bottom of the deal.
Club Illusions on Austin hwy! Man, hung out with many Spurs there! Willie was married to my best friend Miles' sister Cindy! Willie bought that club from Caddie because Caddie got into the coke thing. Big Dave separated himself from that kind of life after that. He was club hopping back in the day too before Valerie. And Mad would come out to the park off commerce street and whop evrybody on the court without even stretching! That was during his "bad" times. I taught gymnastics off of austin highway at Olympia gymnastics and a lot of the Spurs players kids would come to class there
Paul Pressys', Jack Haley, David Greenwood, even Tori lee Jones!!!(Guess
who her daddy is?) Tiffany's Billard on San Pedro, the club out by the airport,
can't remember the name of it right now, and the one club out by the Country lanes, man those were the days. I did some mascot work with the Coyote(Tim Dirk) , I even dressed up as the Suns gorillia doing a mascot dunk off with the Coyote!! He cut my head open during the stunt but I didn't give a damn, anything for the spurs!!!!!!!!!!!!
God I hate living here in Atlanta
Good Times!!!!! When you coming back to S.A.?
How in the does a wooden clog wearing Holland boy become a Spurs fan?
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