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Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - k2tigers - 07-01-2015 02:21 PM
good times....dam, Pepper is hilarious
http://www.commercialappeal.com/happening-now/showboatin-a-30th-anniversary-retrospective-of-memphis-in-the-usfl
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - UofMark - 07-01-2015 03:29 PM
Awesome times. Wouldn't know where to start discussing the many personal, incredible memories of those days.
This site actually sells Showboats gear:
letsgomemphis.com
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - tigerlands - 07-02-2015 08:38 AM
The Showboats were a really, really fun thing. Too bad some of those USFL teams did not get to merge with the NFL. It was good football run by some smart people. Donald Trump screwed it to all hell.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - k2tigers - 07-02-2015 09:49 AM
Stukenborg, Part 1....
http://www.commercialappeal.com/sports/professional-sports/showboatin-thirty-years-ago-memphis-was-in-the-midst-of-a-spring-fling-with-its-beloved-usfl-team_43162371
There’s also a team photo — taken, appropriately, on a docked showboat anchored near Riverside Drive — hanging adjacent to a framed copy of the front page of the July 6, 1985, edition of The Commercial Appeal with a story advancing the USFL semifinal between the Showboats and Oakland Invaders.
At the time, Ehrhart did not know the franchise’s most anticipated game would also be its last. The USFL did not play another season.
“That week there was nothing hotter that I’ve seen in 30 years in Memphis than a ticket to the Showboats and Invaders,” Ehrhart said. “Oakland was 14-4-1 and had beaten (Tampa Bay and coach Steve Spurrier) the week before. We had beaten Denver (48-7) and won six straight at home.”
Memphis had won eight of its final 11 regular-season games to reach the playoffs with momentum. Kelley praised the franchise’s front office for “putting together a fantastic team.” In the team’s final home game in 1984 against the Birmingham Stallions, the Showboats attracted a sellout crowd of 50,079.
“It’s amazing how for those two years the team had command of the local media,” said Tommy Horton, a former sports writer for the old Memphis Press-Scimitar who served as the team’s director of public relations. “It reminds me of how the (NBA’s) Grizzlies dominate (coverage in) the media now. It was a major deal when the franchise was awarded.”
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - bluebacker - 07-02-2015 06:53 PM
I never missed a game. It was awesome.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - Tiger46 - 07-06-2015 11:12 AM
(07-02-2015 06:53 PM)bluebacker Wrote: I never missed a game. It was awesome.
Neither did our little group, many times we came straight from a league softball game or church. Great football and atmosphere.
We thought we were in.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - MemphisTiger15 - 07-06-2015 11:40 AM
About 20 or so years ago, one of my friends got a DUI and had to go to driving school. One of the people in his "class" --- Pepper Rodgers
I can only remember going to 2 games. One against B'ham and one against NJ when they had Herschel & Flutie.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - Bill83 - 07-06-2015 01:58 PM
(07-02-2015 06:53 PM)bluebacker Wrote: I never missed a game. It was awesome.
Had season tickets both seasons on the goal line in the NE end zone, the best of times.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - TigerStreet - 07-15-2015 02:51 PM
Thank you Donald Trump. You idiot.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - Redbanksdog - 07-15-2015 09:28 PM
I had Mad Dog Tickets.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - TiggerFan - 07-16-2015 08:59 AM
About 12 buddies and I had season tickets together. Then we all got married. **** happens.
RE: Showboats - 30 Year Anniversary - UofMemphis - 07-18-2015 02:30 PM
NFL needs a spring/summer league...
Memphis (Liberty Bowl)
Birmingham (Legion Field)
Orlando (Citrus Bowl)
San Antonio (Alamo Dome)
Jackson (MS Vet Memorial Stadium)
Little Rock (War Memorial Stadium)
Mobile (Ladd Peebles Stadium)
Shreveport (Independence Stadium)
6-8 teams, put them in city owned stadiums, in decent media markets, that don't have NFL teams...4 team playoff for the the title.