City to eye a way to score soccer for the Alamodome

[samikeyp]

First regular season game the dome opened 1993 against Golden State. They gave away all kinds of tickets in order to set a record.

[TheWriter]

The first post said "all you guys" then you explained your position. Just because you assume I am insecure, doesn't make it so.

I am telling you it is general. And you still can’t stop crying. If it were specif. I would of went about it a whole other way.

I had to make it general because I couldn't/didn't want to write:

To the three or four posters who don';t get the big picture

Cland, Manny, BigZak, you guys don't get the big picture.

I could have done that. Maybe then you wouldn't be so bummed out and insecure.

This is it. End of ing subject for me.

It was general. If you can't stop crying about it. Pick up the phone and dial someone who cares.

[TheWriter]

First regular season game the dome opened 1993 against Golden State. They gave away all kinds of tickets in order to set a record.

The first game in the Dome.You mean when the big hose went off and delayed the game like an hour?

Dude, the curtain was there. The Dome was not open.

You're a funny guy.

What's even funnier is that you say:

The Spurs did get over 60,000 a few times.

But you provide only one fictional time when the Dome was opened up completely and 60,000 people filled the seats.

[samikeyp]

no actually, the cannon went off in 1994 not 1993. I was at the game in 1993. I may be wrong about a few times, and if so I apologize. But the cannon did not go off the first year of the dome it was actually the second but also against GS.

[samikeyp]

HEB did a bunch of promotions giving away tickets, that is how we won ours. The idea was to beat the record that the Pistons set while in the SilverDome.

[samikeyp]

nope....that is a common thought but it was the second.

[samikeyp]

I checked the box score on that date and I was wrong. It was not over 60, it was 36 and change....I take back the 60,000. My point on the "50,000" earlier was that while you can get big crowds for big games like when MJ was in town or the playoffs, its the middle of the week games against crappy teams that kill you in a dome...along with the ty sight lines and such. I apologize for the error. I was there though and had really bad seats and watched my sister almost get into a fight with drunk people. Entertaining game.

[TheWriter]

The Dome was never opened up fully.

Sorry.

[samikeyp]

here is a link to a story mentioning the water cannon story. It is a collection of NBA odd stories...the numbers before each group of stories is the season it occured.

link

94-95
7/2 Michael Jordan in response to the current rumors that he will return
to basketball next year: "I just don't like to say never; I don't like to
close doors - but if you want me to say it: OK - never. I will never play
basketball again, except recreationally."

9/31 There was some hangup about the contract - there usually was
when it came to Kevin Willis - and Atlanta president Stan Kasten
figured he had taken care of his end.
"Have you talked to Keith or Robert?" Kasten asked Willis.
Those two men, Kasten believed, represented Willis. They also
were Willis' brothers. He had spoken to them many times, all by
phone.
"You mean Robert Keith?" Willis said.
"Robert. Keith. Either one," Kasten said.
"There's only one," Willis said.
Kasten was stupefied. Only then, some two years into Willis'
contract and after umpteen conversations with what he thought were
two different people, did Kasten finally learn that Robert and
Keith were the same person.
Willis now has a different agent. Although Kasten still has
occasional contractual troubles with Willis, it is nothing compared
with the days of Robert Keith. Or was it Keith Robert. Kasten
still isn't sure.

11/8 Sean Rooks on his trade to Minnesota for a 1st round draft pick:
"Last Year, I was a trade rumor all year. It seemed like they
practically wanted to give me away for doggy biscuits. So this
is kind of nice."

Motta prior to last Saturday's pre-season game where he planned (and
did) to play all 18 players: "It'll be a Chinese fire drill. It'll be
horrible."

"I thought in overtime you got another foul." Coach John Lucas (Phi) on
trying to send Shawn Bradley, who had fouled out in the 4th quarter, into
an overtime game against New York.

Former Clipper coach and current Seattle assistant coach Bob Weiss: "I
never got a California driver's license. If I ever got stopped, I was
going to tell the cop, 'I'm the Clippers coach. I'm not going to be
here that long."

Danny Schayes (Pho) when asked if he was pumped to play the LA Lakers,
one of his four former NBA teams: "If I worried about all the teams I
used to play for, I wouldn't get any sleep." 15 of Phoenix's games
this season involves Schayes' old teams.

Dallas coach Motta on his first year as an NBA coach with the
Chicago Bulls (68-69): "We were for sale. We didn't know if we were
going to be the Toronto Bulls or the LA Bulls. They offered to sell the
ballclub to me and the team. They bought it for $1.2 million. They
offered to sell it to us for $600,000. They would carry the loan, no
interest. But I wouldn't have touched it with a 10-foot pole."
On the announced crowd of 891 at Chicago Stadium on November 7, 1968:
"We padded that. That night, we actually had about 60 people there.
After that, Walter Kennedy's (NBA commissioner) instructions to us were,
'There are always at least 1,000 people at every game.'"

Shaquille O'Neal (Orl) on Dennis Rodman (SA), who said that O'Neal does
not rebounds as well as he should for his size: "Me responding to Rodman
is like talking to a Bugs Bunny doll. I don't like to talk to Looney
Tunes."

Charles Barkley after Phoenix won 108-107 in Philadelphia Friday night
after taking advantage of some lucky breaks: "Okay everybody, we're
going to Atlantic City. I'm giving everybody $10,000."

And a non-NBA funny: The Ottawa Rough Riders drafted a dead defensive
lineman in the Canadian Football League dispersal draft. The headline in
the local paper read: "Rough Riders Draft a Real Stiff".

Scott Williams (then Chi) took the prize with weirdest injuries
last season with a bowling injury, injury due to lifting a TV,
and injury while stretching. Charles Barkley (Pho) is this
year's winner. Barkley burned the first layer of his corneas
when he rubbed his eyes because of the bright stage lights at
an Eric Clapton concert. A chemical reaction occurred due to
the body lotion Barkley had been using. The eyes are just
irritated - no permanent damage. He will miss Phoenix's first
game due to his eyes and his strained stomach muscle. He is
listed as game-to-game.

The rain man came to San Antonio, but not in the form of Shawn
Kemp. An indoor fireworks display during the player introductions
set off the Alamodome sprinkler system, including a large water
cannon. Fans, players, and coaches were drenched by the indoor
shower that lasted for about 4 minutes and distributed 12,000
gallons of water. The game was not a washout, but was delayed for
50 minutes.

A Nike ad showing in Japan has an American going up to some Japanese boys
who were shooting around and teaches them how to trash talk. CNN
correspondent Bill Dorman: "Roughly translated, (it means), "Your mother's
belly button sticks out."

Some of the better 3-point shooters have been complaining about the
shortened 3-point line. I've heard comments from Danny Ainge and
Reggie Miller. Now add Dale Ellis (Den): "Next thing you know,
they'll move the free-throw line in a couple feet and give you four
shots to make two."

Dallas coach Motta has picked up a couple of technicals for his
reactions to the inconsistent foul calling in pre-season. When asked
what he said to get a T in Wednesday night's game, Motta said, "Nothing.
I only say the proper things, and that bothers them (the refs)."
On Thursday night, he picked up another T for encouraging the fans who
were booing all the calls (whether the foul was against Dallas or
Indiana). Motta, who has been out of the league for 3 years: "He
(ref Billy Oakes) came up and said, 'You know, technicals aren't $25
anymore'."

11/20 Motta on 7'6" Shawn Bradley: "He's tall, really tall."
Anything else? "He's tall, really tall. Good athlete. He's tall."

Rolando Blackman on the Greek he needs to learn for his stay with Aek team
of the Greek Basketball League: "The first phrase I want to learn is 'Give
me the ball.' The second is 'Get out of the way.' The rest will take
care of itself."

12/25 Motta: "We were at Golden State in 1980, my first year here. They
had a halftime act with a huge Bengal tiger and a monkey. The monkey
would shoot basketballs and the tiger would go retrieve them. I watched
the act for awhile and then I asked the trainer if she would do me a favor
and let me borrow her tiger. I said, 'Is it a nice tiger?' and she said
it was. I said, 'Will it bite me?' and she said no. I had her knock on
the door when her act was over. We were still in the dressing room at
halftime. She knocked on the door, and I reached out and got that tiger
by its leash and collar and walked it in. The players all scattered. I
said, 'If you guys don't start rebounding, I'm going to let this tiger
eat.' At the time, the players didn't think it was funny. They didn't
laugh. But it _was_ funny. It was great."

1/18 Motta, before the game, on how the Mavs were going to contain
O'Neal: "I don't know." (He then expanded on it a little bit, but the
first part and pause was funny.)

Reebok sent the wrong shoes to Scott Brooks. Brooks: "I tried them on and
said, 'Wait a minute. Either I've grown and I'm 6 foot 3 or these are
women's shoes.' I don't know. Maybe they think I play like a girl."

[TheWriter]

no actually, the cannon went off in 1994 not 1993. I was at the game in 1993. I may be wrong about a few times, and if so I apologize. But the cannon did not go off the first year of the dome it was actually the second but also against GS.

So your apologizing for what?

Talking out your ass?

Making things up?

Lying?

How can you boldly and surely claim that something happened when it never did.

How can you go from saying a "few" times to saying once to saying never.

Weird.

[TheWriter]

It's the only thing you got even remotely correct. Take solace in knowing that.

[samikeyp]

apologizing for saying that the dome was fully opened that night or ever. I thought it had been and I was mistaken. I should have checked my facts before I posted.

[samikeyp]

plenty of things I have posted are right....just not in this thread...I got the attendance thing wrong.

[TheWriter]

apologizing for saying that the dome was fully opened that night or ever. I thought it had been and I was mistaken. I should have checked my facts before I posted.

You shouldn't run your mouth unless your pretty certain of the crap you spew.

To say that they removed the curtain once but being wrong is borderline acceptable.

To say it was opened up a few times and then to say it was opened up during the first game in the Dome and you know because you were there is just plain... sad.

[samikeyp]

You shouldn't run your mouth unless your pretty certain of the crap you spew.

says who? doesn't stop others on this board.

acceptable to whom?

[TheWriter]

plenty of things I have posted are right....just not in this thread...I got the attendance thing wrong.

Wow... you are one very literal man.

You read things and take them as being literal.

Jesus.

You got morethan just the attendance thing wrong.

[samikeyp]

I made a mistake. at least I owned up to it...that is a lot more than a lot do here.

[TheWriter]

says who? doesn't stop others on this board.

acceptable to whom?

Says who?

I guess I do. Or did you not see my handle left of the post.

[TheWriter]

I made a mistake. at least I owned up to it...that is a lot more than a lot do here.

It wasn't a mistake.

It was a bold face lie that you were caught on.

[samikeyp]

and who are you to tell me what to do?

[TheWriter]

and who are you to tell me what to do?

I'm TheWriter. And I can tell you anything I want.

[samikeyp]

just like when you lied about the "all you guys" thing

[samikeyp]

I'm TheWriter. And I can tell you anything I want.

then I suggest you meet me offline and say it to my face

[TheWriter]

just like when you lied about the "all you guys" thing

I lied about that?

Nope. It was general. If you weren't 13 and did not spend 19 hours of your 24 hour day on the internet. You'd know what it is when a person uses a generalization in word form.

Maybe when you're done talking out your ass you can pick up a book.

Man... I swore I was done with this subject. Damn you!

[TheWriter]

then I suggest you meet me offline and say it to my face

How about the playground at recess.

Sounds good!