42 is an interesting number in sports, particularly baseball. Jackie Robinson, as the first African-American allowed to play in the MLB was also the first number to be retired by the entire league. If that's the case, then why is Mariano Rivera allowed to wear it? Mo has been wearing 42 with the Yankees since 1995, when he first entered the MLB, therefore, he beat out Robinson's number retirement almost two years in advance, on 15 April 1997. That wasn't an immediate qualifier though. While this had come about, Rivera had made sure it was in his contract that he would continue to be allowed to wear the number for any club in his career.
This coming NHL season will be the 42nd season of play for the Buffalo Sabres. Another team in Buffalo that's had it's fair share of glory days but couldn't bring the trophy home.
But the number 42 has significance in basketball too (or at least this past season it did). Including a slight makeover, the Los Angeles Clippers finished 30th Season celebrations this season. But the club was started twelve years prior and two moves ago - 42 years ago. The Buffalo Braves were granted expansion the same season the aforementioned Sabres. Two new teams at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium for the 1970/71 seaosn, it was sure to be a spectacular severl years as both teams saw immediate success on the platform in the old Aud.
Van Miller (Starting Lineups and tip) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar(ATL Hawks) 19 Dec 1973
Van Miller (Starting Lineups and tip) - Wilt Chamberlain(MIL Bucks) 3 February 1973*
*This was Chamberlain's last NBA season before retiring. The he coached one season for the San Diego Conquistadors.
Courtesy of the "WBEN 1973" page on StaffAnnouncer.com
Van Miller would not be able to do many more games after the 1973/74 season, by that point it was halftime in Buffalo who had their best three seasons during this span. Miller would wind up in his second stint as the play-by-play for the NFL's Buffalo Bills until being succeeded by then color analyst John Murphy in 2004. The end of the 1977/78 season came about and team owner John Y. Brown began talks with then Celtics owner Irv Levin in regards to the future of their teams. Funny these two were playoff rivals. I wondered if these two would make this year's NBA Finals. And guess who the broker for these negotiations was - yep, pre-commissioner era David Stern. The deal was that the two owners would swap franchises to allow Levin to send the Braves out west, something Brown couldn't do.
When the deal was authorized, Levin immediately went to work and dealt the team off to a San Diego market that had two failures the aforementioned Conquistadors 1972-75 (the year after Chamberlain coached wouldn't you know it) and the team now known as the Houston Rockets, 1967-71. This San Diego team became the third, when Levin sold the team to Donald Stering, who then moved the team to Los Angeles. That Brings us to today, kinda.
I always did like the orange jerseys, so I brought them back. For an unknown reason, I felt like adding side stripes for the home and roads. That's really it, I don't have a fancy description for this idea of mine. That's hard for me to do - not have descriptions that is. Now what in the world will I have for tomorrow, back to work for me! See ya!
-Ricky
This coming NHL season will be the 42nd season of play for the Buffalo Sabres. Another team in Buffalo that's had it's fair share of glory days but couldn't bring the trophy home.
But the number 42 has significance in basketball too (or at least this past season it did). Including a slight makeover, the Los Angeles Clippers finished 30th Season celebrations this season. But the club was started twelve years prior and two moves ago - 42 years ago. The Buffalo Braves were granted expansion the same season the aforementioned Sabres. Two new teams at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium for the 1970/71 seaosn, it was sure to be a spectacular severl years as both teams saw immediate success on the platform in the old Aud.
Van Miller (Starting Lineups and tip) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar(ATL Hawks) 19 Dec 1973
Van Miller (Starting Lineups and tip) - Wilt Chamberlain(MIL Bucks) 3 February 1973*
*This was Chamberlain's last NBA season before retiring. The he coached one season for the San Diego Conquistadors.
Courtesy of the "WBEN 1973" page on StaffAnnouncer.com
Van Miller would not be able to do many more games after the 1973/74 season, by that point it was halftime in Buffalo who had their best three seasons during this span. Miller would wind up in his second stint as the play-by-play for the NFL's Buffalo Bills until being succeeded by then color analyst John Murphy in 2004. The end of the 1977/78 season came about and team owner John Y. Brown began talks with then Celtics owner Irv Levin in regards to the future of their teams. Funny these two were playoff rivals. I wondered if these two would make this year's NBA Finals. And guess who the broker for these negotiations was - yep, pre-commissioner era David Stern. The deal was that the two owners would swap franchises to allow Levin to send the Braves out west, something Brown couldn't do.
When the deal was authorized, Levin immediately went to work and dealt the team off to a San Diego market that had two failures the aforementioned Conquistadors 1972-75 (the year after Chamberlain coached wouldn't you know it) and the team now known as the Houston Rockets, 1967-71. This San Diego team became the third, when Levin sold the team to Donald Stering, who then moved the team to Los Angeles. That Brings us to today, kinda.
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I always did like the orange jerseys, so I brought them back. For an unknown reason, I felt like adding side stripes for the home and roads. That's really it, I don't have a fancy description for this idea of mine. That's hard for me to do - not have descriptions that is. Now what in the world will I have for tomorrow, back to work for me! See ya!
-Ricky
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