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Speaker 1 (00:00):
June seventeenth, thirty one years ago. Today is one of
the most remarkable days, I think in the history of America,
especially in American sports pop quiz. Can you name something
that happened on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jeeh, well, I'm guessing NBA Finals time it was? It
was the NBA Finals was going on ninety four. Yep,
Michael Jordan dropping.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
No, that's not.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Nope, this was this was the year he was retired.
This was the Houston Rockets in the New York Knicks.
Game five of the NBA Finals in nineteen ninety four
between the Rockets and Knicks was on NBC.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I couldn't tell you anything that happened was real important
during that entire series.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
O Beside two ended up winning.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Elijah won. Yeah, but is there something beyond that?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What it wasn't It was Via Tuesday here, Scott, come on,
I know I want to do this, but it wasn't
Nick's Reggie Miller, Pacers, Spike Lee with the choke, and
so forth.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
So you've named the only pertinent NBA headline. Game five
of the NBA Finals is taking place, Okay, but there's
something more to it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
There was more that was happening.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, come on, I guess they've got it with wait,
beyond the game, Yeah, outside of just don't even think batall,
don't even think basketball, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just in the United States. Yeah, College World Series.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Nope, I mean it may have been going on, but
that's not important.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, nineteen ninety four, we're not in an Olympic year.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We are not. But something very important was happening baseball. Baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, Nolan Richardson's throwing a no hitter at the age
of eighty or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
He was no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
King Griffy Junior tied Baybe Bruce record for most home
runs before June thirtieth, and was on his way to
breaking the single season home run record in nineteen ninety four.
But we know if you're a baseball fan, eventually would
happen in nineteen ninety four. The strike shortens the season,
he would not be able to finish that record.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So so, but.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
On June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four, Ken Griffy Junior tied
Babe Ruth with thirty home runs. Before June thirtieth, he
was on pace for something like sixty five home runs
and yeah, thirty home runs in the team's sixty fifth
game of the season, but because of the strike, never
got to see exactly where he landed.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So there's two. There's two. There are a few more.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, great era of baseball back then.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh man, Yeah, we don't like the steroid era for
what the steroid era was, but man, the nostalgia of
that era, it's it's gonna be tough for baseball to
match that.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So there's something else that happened on this date.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
There's more. There's more.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Stanley Cup.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yep, it was actually.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
More Gretzky's playing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He was, he did not win it, but but the
all time goals, no, the good guess. But the NHL
Stanley Cup Finals was won by the New York Rangers
for the first time in thirty plus years, and they
had their big ticker tape parade in downtown New York
City on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four. Okay, there are
(03:18):
two other things, well, every time, there are three other things,
but the most important one has not been mentioned yet.
It's sports adjacent. It's not necessarily sports, but it's sports adjacent.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Based on who was involved.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Bill Clinton was the President of the United States and
he was presenting and yes, very Olympic type thing. The
nineteen ninety four fieft of World Cup, hosted by the
United States, has its first like the tournament starts with
Bill Clinton presenting and saying, we are happy to have
(03:56):
the FIFA World Cup in the United States. The first
games are played on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, that's where you lost me. But that was maybe
the only time in my life I tried to give
a darn because the World Cup was in America and
my buddies in high I was in high school at
the time and hung out with a lot of guys
that played soccer, and they're like, we're all going over
to Russ's house to watch soccer. Like, well, that sounds
like fun. Yeah, And it almost was. Hanging out with
(04:23):
my buddies is always a good time watching soccer all
afternoon or evening or whatever. It was. Was not exactly
my favorite thing to do. I like something that's a
lot more exciting to watch on TV, like golf. Okay,
And you may have just lost some people there, you
and meat, but it was it was a huge deal.
It was a huge deal. Yeah, and it's about to
(04:44):
be a major deal when we host it next year. Also, okay, Yeah,
the World Cup is back in North America, including the
United States, in twenty twenty six. But yes, the last
time we hosted it was nineteen ninety four and the
first games were played in the opening ceremony was held
on June seveneenth, nineteen ninety four. You mentioned golf, Well,
they were playing golf on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Two US Open. Arnold Palmer played his last US Open
round at Oakmont.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was at Oakmont? Was it ninety four? It was Oakmont?
Good job, wow, nicely done.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, Arnold Palmer, nineteen ninety four. That was the last
US Open round. So, I mean he missed the cut, yeah,
but he was there. He was still golfing and it
was his last few holes and you could see him
kind of getting a little bit teary eyed, and the
reporters and the commentators were just like all they were
talking about was this is the end for this legend
(05:41):
in this event that you know it, I mean a
signature event and one of the true signature players of
all time.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It was a massive deal.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, it was what twenty some years earlier that Arnold Palmer,
who grew up in that vicinity. I mean Oakmont is
in a suburb of Pittsburgh. He grew up in latrob
the suburb of Pittsburgh. So Arnie's army was trying to
get Arnold Palmer to a victory over some fat kid
from Ohio named Jack Nicholas, who at that time was
(06:11):
kind of a big, kind of you know, he had
a round cherubic face, shall we say, and Arnie's army
let Jack have it for four days, just yelling at him,
mocking him. And Jack beat Arnie on that day. And
Jack never said anything bad about the fans. He just
(06:31):
praised Arnold Palmer and through his graciousness which he didn't
have to have one fans over, and then won a
whole lot more after that.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, you want to talk about two guys synonymous with
each other. Yeah, and you just can't tell the story
of one without the other. The only US Open that
Arnold Palmer won was in nineteen sixty. But yeah, I mean,
truly a legend of the game, and he's gonna lift forever,
not just for you know what he brought to golf.
But the drink that he it kind of helped invent
(07:01):
and develop, which was you know, the he says it's
seventy percent thirty percent lemonade, but you know a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Of people call half and half or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But yeah, on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four, he played
his final US Open round at Oakmont.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And the last thing that I think is very notable.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'm still guessing, Yeah, what other sport was would have
been going the World League of American Football?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Not good, try, good try the US. No, it's not
actually a sporting event. It was a news event involving
a sports person.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh I do know this one. This was how the
name Al Collings got into the national prominence. He was
the driver of a white Bronco down the LA Freeway
in the slowest speed, weirdest thing that we'd ever saw
oj Simpson at a speed of what twenty miles in
(08:00):
how are thirty forty miles an hour?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
They were blocking the hole, just.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Basically just driving around with police tailing him. But we
were just gonna content to let that go. You know,
I don't actually remember what happened when that vehicle finally
pulled over. I have the images in my head of
that Bronco with OJ in it, news media everywhere, people
lining the streets.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Helicopters were overpasses, right, people lighting up an overpasses to
get a look at this as I was coming by.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I have such great images of remembering watching that at
the time. I don't remember what happened when he actually
pulled over.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, so there were a ton of people that were
just there at his house and stuff, and I think
that that it just ended up. He just went to
his house and they followed him there, and they said
that he was going to, you know, potentially kill himself,
and that's why they didn't want to make any crazy
moves on him. But that happened, and there's that iconic
image of him or the Bronco essentially with the police
(09:02):
chase on one side of a screen, and NBC was
showing that while they're showing Game five of the NBA
Finals at the same time, so there's like it's like
split screen and just like an iconic thing that kind
of capped the night of June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
There's an incredible documentary that was made as part of
ESPN's thirty for thirty fifteen years ago or so, and
(09:26):
it commemorates in kind of goes through all of these things,
but there's no narrator, there's no like person that pieces
them together. It's literally like you're just kind of watching
the events unfold as the day goes on, and they're
showing you what time things are happening, and then all
of a sudden, you know, kind of the finale is
the Oja Bronco chase.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You can find that wherever you got your ESPN thirty
for thirty, whether it's the ESPN app or you know,
I TVR them all so I can watch them on
my YouTube TV.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But now thirty one years later, we've got a new
Naked Gun move be coming out.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, Oja as legacy lives on kind of through the
Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well have you seen how they do that in the
in the cliff, Yes, that's the commercial where these are
the children of the original Naked Gun cops and they're
all their pain respects to their frame pictures of their father,
and the guy who's OJ's kid looks at him and
looks at the camera and just goes.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Nord Berg, Yeah, that's funny stuff anyway, just one of
the craziest days in you know, modern American history, and
we have it all on film. So yeah, if you
want to check that out. June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
Great documentary.
June seventeenth, thirty one years ago. Today is one of
the most remarkable days, I think in the history of America,
especially in American sports pop quiz. Can you name something
that happened on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jeeh, well, I'm guessing NBA Finals time it was? It
was the NBA Finals was going on ninety four. Yep,
Michael Jordan dropping.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
No, that's not.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Nope, this was this was the year he was retired.
This was the Houston Rockets in the New York Knicks.
Game five of the NBA Finals in nineteen ninety four
between the Rockets and Knicks was on NBC.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I couldn't tell you anything that happened was real important
during that entire series.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
O Beside two ended up winning.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Elijah won. Yeah, but is there something beyond that?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What it wasn't It was Via Tuesday here, Scott, come on,
I know I want to do this, but it wasn't
Nick's Reggie Miller, Pacers, Spike Lee with the choke, and
so forth.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
So you've named the only pertinent NBA headline. Game five
of the NBA Finals is taking place, Okay, but there's
something more to it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
There was more that was happening.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, come on, I guess they've got it with wait,
beyond the game, Yeah, outside of just don't even think batall,
don't even think basketball, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just in the United States. Yeah, College World Series.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Nope, I mean it may have been going on, but
that's not important.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, nineteen ninety four, we're not in an Olympic year.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We are not. But something very important was happening baseball. Baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, Nolan Richardson's throwing a no hitter at the age
of eighty or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
He was no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
King Griffy Junior tied Baybe Bruce record for most home
runs before June thirtieth, and was on his way to
breaking the single season home run record in nineteen ninety four.
But we know if you're a baseball fan, eventually would
happen in nineteen ninety four. The strike shortens the season,
he would not be able to finish that record.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So so, but.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
On June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four, Ken Griffy Junior tied
Babe Ruth with thirty home runs. Before June thirtieth, he
was on pace for something like sixty five home runs
and yeah, thirty home runs in the team's sixty fifth
game of the season, but because of the strike, never
got to see exactly where he landed.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So there's two. There's two. There are a few more.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, great era of baseball back then.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh man, Yeah, we don't like the steroid era for
what the steroid era was, but man, the nostalgia of
that era, it's it's gonna be tough for baseball to
match that.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So there's something else that happened on this date.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
There's more. There's more.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Stanley Cup.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yep, it was actually.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
More Gretzky's playing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He was, he did not win it, but but the
all time goals, no, the good guess. But the NHL
Stanley Cup Finals was won by the New York Rangers
for the first time in thirty plus years, and they
had their big ticker tape parade in downtown New York
City on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four. Okay, there are
(03:18):
two other things, well, every time, there are three other things,
but the most important one has not been mentioned yet.
It's sports adjacent. It's not necessarily sports, but it's sports adjacent.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Based on who was involved.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Bill Clinton was the President of the United States and
he was presenting and yes, very Olympic type thing. The
nineteen ninety four fieft of World Cup, hosted by the
United States, has its first like the tournament starts with
Bill Clinton presenting and saying, we are happy to have
(03:56):
the FIFA World Cup in the United States. The first
games are played on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, that's where you lost me. But that was maybe
the only time in my life I tried to give
a darn because the World Cup was in America and
my buddies in high I was in high school at
the time and hung out with a lot of guys
that played soccer, and they're like, we're all going over
to Russ's house to watch soccer. Like, well, that sounds
like fun. Yeah, And it almost was. Hanging out with
(04:23):
my buddies is always a good time watching soccer all
afternoon or evening or whatever. It was. Was not exactly
my favorite thing to do. I like something that's a
lot more exciting to watch on TV, like golf. Okay,
And you may have just lost some people there, you
and meat, but it was it was a huge deal.
It was a huge deal. Yeah, and it's about to
(04:44):
be a major deal when we host it next year. Also, okay, Yeah,
the World Cup is back in North America, including the
United States, in twenty twenty six. But yes, the last
time we hosted it was nineteen ninety four and the
first games were played in the opening ceremony was held
on June seveneenth, nineteen ninety four. You mentioned golf, Well,
they were playing golf on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Two US Open. Arnold Palmer played his last US Open
round at Oakmont.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was at Oakmont? Was it ninety four? It was Oakmont?
Good job, wow, nicely done.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, Arnold Palmer, nineteen ninety four. That was the last
US Open round. So, I mean he missed the cut, yeah,
but he was there. He was still golfing and it
was his last few holes and you could see him
kind of getting a little bit teary eyed, and the
reporters and the commentators were just like all they were
talking about was this is the end for this legend
(05:41):
in this event that you know it, I mean a
signature event and one of the true signature players of
all time.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It was a massive deal.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, it was what twenty some years earlier that Arnold Palmer,
who grew up in that vicinity. I mean Oakmont is
in a suburb of Pittsburgh. He grew up in latrob
the suburb of Pittsburgh. So Arnie's army was trying to
get Arnold Palmer to a victory over some fat kid
from Ohio named Jack Nicholas, who at that time was
(06:11):
kind of a big, kind of you know, he had
a round cherubic face, shall we say, and Arnie's army
let Jack have it for four days, just yelling at him,
mocking him. And Jack beat Arnie on that day. And
Jack never said anything bad about the fans. He just
(06:31):
praised Arnold Palmer and through his graciousness which he didn't
have to have one fans over, and then won a
whole lot more after that.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, you want to talk about two guys synonymous with
each other. Yeah, and you just can't tell the story
of one without the other. The only US Open that
Arnold Palmer won was in nineteen sixty. But yeah, I mean,
truly a legend of the game, and he's gonna lift forever,
not just for you know what he brought to golf.
But the drink that he it kind of helped invent
(07:01):
and develop, which was you know, the he says it's
seventy percent thirty percent lemonade, but you know a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Of people call half and half or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But yeah, on June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four, he played
his final US Open round at Oakmont.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And the last thing that I think is very notable.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'm still guessing, Yeah, what other sport was would have
been going the World League of American Football?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Not good, try, good try the US. No, it's not
actually a sporting event. It was a news event involving
a sports person.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh I do know this one. This was how the
name Al Collings got into the national prominence. He was
the driver of a white Bronco down the LA Freeway
in the slowest speed, weirdest thing that we'd ever saw
oj Simpson at a speed of what twenty miles in
(08:00):
how are thirty forty miles an hour?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
They were blocking the hole, just.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Basically just driving around with police tailing him. But we
were just gonna content to let that go. You know,
I don't actually remember what happened when that vehicle finally
pulled over. I have the images in my head of
that Bronco with OJ in it, news media everywhere, people
lining the streets.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Helicopters were overpasses, right, people lighting up an overpasses to
get a look at this as I was coming by.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I have such great images of remembering watching that at
the time. I don't remember what happened when he actually
pulled over.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, so there were a ton of people that were
just there at his house and stuff, and I think
that that it just ended up. He just went to
his house and they followed him there, and they said
that he was going to, you know, potentially kill himself,
and that's why they didn't want to make any crazy
moves on him. But that happened, and there's that iconic
image of him or the Bronco essentially with the police
(09:02):
chase on one side of a screen, and NBC was
showing that while they're showing Game five of the NBA
Finals at the same time, so there's like it's like
split screen and just like an iconic thing that kind
of capped the night of June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
There's an incredible documentary that was made as part of
ESPN's thirty for thirty fifteen years ago or so, and
(09:26):
it commemorates in kind of goes through all of these things,
but there's no narrator, there's no like person that pieces
them together. It's literally like you're just kind of watching
the events unfold as the day goes on, and they're
showing you what time things are happening, and then all
of a sudden, you know, kind of the finale is
the Oja Bronco chase.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You can find that wherever you got your ESPN thirty
for thirty, whether it's the ESPN app or you know,
I TVR them all so I can watch them on
my YouTube TV.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But now thirty one years later, we've got a new
Naked Gun move be coming out.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, Oja as legacy lives on kind of through the
Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well have you seen how they do that in the
in the cliff, Yes, that's the commercial where these are
the children of the original Naked Gun cops and they're
all their pain respects to their frame pictures of their father,
and the guy who's OJ's kid looks at him and
looks at the camera and just goes.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Nord Berg, Yeah, that's funny stuff anyway, just one of
the craziest days in you know, modern American history, and
we have it all on film. So yeah, if you
want to check that out. June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four.
Great documentary.
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