Where the exhibition games were against the Russian/Soviet National teams and of coarse all of our favorites Athletes In Action.
I miss the days
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Everything was better then. So blessed to have Tark the Shark. 14-15 thousand for our exhibition games.. Those were the days. The best of times.......
Sounds a little like a fish story there BRR. I certainly don’t remember 14-15K for any exhibition games. I was there and we were always light until the season began and didn’t get to your numbers until the heavyweights came to town.
Those were awesome. All of them. A big part of it was you didn’t care who they played, you just finally got to see them. Wasn’t Marathon Oil another one of those Athletes in Action type of team? That may have been a few years later.
For the Soviets? They were large crowds. The lesser games weren’t 14-15K, but they were more than 8K (legit), I’d say.
This shows the pregame and beginning of the 1989 game vs. USSR. I remember going to that game because it was the first time I saw LJ play. Crowd was into the game for sure. I can only imagine how intimidating the pregame fireworks were for the Soviets
Decent crowd for an exhibition. Tough to tell top level but bottom level looked packed.
You are right about the game against the Soviets. They might have been the reigning Gold Medal winners from the previous Olympics and we had a helluva team that year.
None of the games against the Soviets were sellouts but the attendance figures were very good, especially for that early in the season. The first game in 87 the Thomas & Mack was about half full, around 8,000.
The numbers continued to improve for the next three games. Very good turnout for the last game in 90, around 3/4 full. Didn’t hurt the game was on a Saturday and aired nationally on NBC, and it was the teams first appearance since winning the national title. Soviets typically drew at least pretty well most places they went back then, ESPN aired a good number of their games.
The numbers continued to improve for the next three games. Very good turnout for the last game in 90, around 3/4 full. Didn’t hurt the game was on a Saturday and aired nationally on NBC, and it was the teams first appearance since winning the national title. Soviets typically drew at least pretty well most places they went back then, ESPN aired a good number of their games.
