The non-Raiders network: In case you weren’t...
The non-Raiders network: In case you weren’t keeping score, the estimated 26 fights among fans at the Rams game in Anaheim Stadium on Sunday resulted in 55 ejections, three hospitalizations and 20 arrests--about four times the average number there, according to police.
And what was the extra ingredient Sunday? The Raiders--and, inevitably, Raiders’ fans. Free-for-alls are, of course, routine at Raiders’ home games, where as many as 150 spectators have been ejected on a single afternoon.
Which helps explain the policy at C.T.’s Bar & Grill in El Sereno, where a virtual TV blackout on all Raiders games has been declared.
“We’ve got every gang in the world in this area,” explained Bud Haig, the manager of C.T.’s. “If we showed a Raiders game, you’d have more guns in here than at the invasion of Normandy. All our regular customers say they don’t want to get in between that stuff.”
Haig admitted he showed a bit of the second half of the Raiders game Sunday, but only because no one expected him to, and it was too late for word to get out to Raiders fans, anyway.
By the way, if it’s any comfort to Raiders owner Al Davis, his team’s broadcasts are not alone among the verboten at C.T.’s.
“We don’t show boxing either,” Haig said.
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Get me to the brawl on time: Aside from the ejections, hospitalizations and arrests, the Rams-Raiders game also was the scene of three marriage proposals, delivered by planes pulling banners over the stadium. It wasn’t known whether any of the fights were related to the proposals.
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On top of things: During a scroll presentation, Sterling (Smooth) Forbes of the Harlem Globetrotters began spinning a ball on his finger, then took the hand of Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and set it on her finger, where it remained in orbit for several seconds, to her amazement. Of course, balancing acts come natural to politicians.
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Now that’s a service department!”My wife Cynthia, who’s never owned a Chevrolet, received a Chevrolet brochure for service from a dealership in Indianapolis, Ind., where she’s never lived,” reports Pat McKean of Long Beach, which is in Southern California.
Pat and Cynthia are tempted to get a Midwest oil change, anyway.
“The brochure said they offer courtesy shuttle service,” McKean explained.
miscelLAny Bob Holmes of Long Beach noticed that a Sports Illustrated ad promises that its video, “1994: The Year in Sports,” shows “the year’s most exciting moments, including action-packed highlights of the Super Bowl, World Series and NBA finals.” At last, we can find out if the Dodgers won it all in 1994!