14 years ago, today...

[AROS]

You don't have to have had those, but there's no reason to try to make less of it for those who did

I wasn't. My response was about someone who said they were angry about people cheering for the Kingdome's demise..........so I was defending the fact that people were cheering because it meant Safeco and the Clink were being built, more than happy that the Kingdome was gone.

It's also about attitude, snarkiness, which your post(s) seem to have an abundance of.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

One of my favorite memories at the Kingdome. We were sitting that same end zone, and that game was OVER, then this happened http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6Lc2cIN0w

 

[crucifyd]

It was strange, and kinda sad, to hear Kathi Goertzen's voice on the broadcast.

That was actually Jean Gertzen of KING 5. The lovely, angelic late Kathi was from KOMO 4.

oops, you mean Jean Enersen...

and Kathi Goertzen

 

[Veilside]

My High school, Burlington Edison, won the state AA state championship on that turf in 1977 when itg wasn't yet saturated with dried blood sweat and god knows what else. I remember measuring all the guys for turf shoes the week before the game. I was one of the equipment managers who squirted the fluids into open mouths during timeouts and tossed around a LOT of towels. Dried so many wet footballs and tossed them back to refs at home games I had nightmares about it.

Being able to be walking the sidelines during that game in the dome was one of the coolest things I had done to that point of my life. Seeing Griff-J smack about 40 homers live was sweet too.

Wow I graduated from BEHS in 99. Small world made smaller by the internet.

 

[AROS]

It was strange, and kinda sad, to hear Kathi Goertzen's voice on the broadcast.

That was actually Jean Gertzen of KING 5. The lovely, angelic late Kathi was from KOMO 4.

oops, you mean Jean Enersen...

and Kathi Goertzen

Oops is right. Thanks for the correction!

 

[Anonymous]

My High school, Burlington Edison, won the state AA state championship on that turf in 1977 when itg wasn't yet saturated with dried blood sweat and god knows what else. I remember measuring all the guys for turf shoes the week before the game. I was one of the equipment managers who squirted the fluids into open mouths during timeouts and tossed around a LOT of towels. Dried so many wet footballs and tossed them back to refs at home games I had nightmares about it.

Being able to be walking the sidelines during that game in the dome was one of the coolest things I had done to that point of my life. Seeing Griff-J smack about 40 homers live was sweet too.

Wow I graduated from BEHS in 99. Small world made smaller by the internet.

1982 here. It's weird living down here where we are so close to LSU and it's fans. Our uniforms and mascot were identical (at that time anyway), just have to replace the purple and gold, with the Blue and Gold, and you have a BEHS Tiger.

Tiger club still re-paint the "B" on the hill?

 

[RiverDog]

I saw the Kingdome implosion from the 40th floor of the Wells Fargo Building. I still have the sequence of pictures I took through the Plexiglas window I was kneeling in front of.

I've watched many events in the old Kingdome. Scores of Hawks and Mariners games along with a handful of Sonics games, including one game in the 1979 Championship season. I saw Steve Largent break the consecutive game record and saw his hit on Mike Hardin. I saw the last Mariners game in the dome, the highlight of which was a streaker that interrupted play for a few minutes. Lots of memories.

But I grew tired of the place. I didn't like sitting around staring at the gray concrete ceiling during TV timeouts or between innings at baseball games. Our new digs are far, far superior, and I don't miss it at all.

 

[Snakeeyes007]

When I was 9, my father took me to the Kingdome to watch the Concrete Lions play and win the state championship for B-11 high school football. It became an annual tradition for my father and I to go and watch the high school championships each year. I dreamt of playing in the Kingbowl when I got to high school.

Though we continued the annual tradition when the championships moved to the Tacoma Dome, it wasn't quite the same. The aura of Kingdome was a fantastical thing growing up, and I'm reminded that I still miss it each year when the high school championships come around.

-Thanks for the memories, dad.

 

[AbsolutNET]

Tiger club still re-paint the "B" on the hill?

Is that what that is there for??? If you aren't from Burlington, it's up to rumor and guess why that damn B (or 8, we can't tell) is up there.

 

[twisted_steel2]

I'll never forget walking through the tunnel for the first time and seeing the bright lights, the field and the vast expanse of the inside of the Kingdome... as a little kid from Tennessee, wow man it was magic. Then I got to sit and watch my precious adopted team the Seahawks?!?!

Ahhh what a day. 29 years later, still magic.

RIP you ugly ol' hunk of concrete. Good times.

 

[Anonymous]

Tiger club still re-paint the "B" on the hill?

Is that what that is there for??? If you aren't from Burlington, it's up to rumor and guess why that damn B (or 8, we can't tell) is up there.

Uh Oh, I might be getting a visit from the dairy farmer mafia for letting the secret out...

 

[crucifyd]

The aura of Kingdome was a fantastical thing growing up

this. was the kingdome cool/beautiful/whatever complimentary adjective you want...i thought it was at the time, but at the end of it's time it looked pretty bad...was the kingdome awesome/loud...yeah...

Thanks for the memories, dad.

same here...my dad split a set of Seahawks season tickets with my uncle for several seasons and I was always his company...good times...

 

[irocdave]

The dome holds a lot of PNW specific memories for me but in general it was a POS. My first memory of it was when I was about 10 YO (1980) and watched a guy piss his pants waiting in line for the men's restroom. For some reason the dome had an equal amount of mens restrooms as womens. Go figure why this didn't work out well.

My brothers and I attended several Supercross events in the late 70-s / early 80's, by the time the riders made their second attempt at qualifying the upper 400' of the dome filled with 2 stroke oil smoke and we all left with massive headaches.

The last time I attended a game in the KD was at the end of the M's 05 playoff run. Tucked up tight to the 200 level on a warm day. The BO and stagnant air was horrible.

I work in the construction industry and spent a lot of time looking at that " engineering" marvel. It was slapped together like a Yugo. It was a POS and the concrete forming workmanship was pitiful.

I for one don't miss it at all. The structure wasn't good at anything other than bouncing sound back down on the field I the rare occasion that the fans had something to cheer for. Unfortunately the Hawks didn't have many of those.

Good riddance, that building was a POS from day one..

 

[RiverDog]

The dome holds a lot of PNW specific memories for me but in general it was a POS. My first memory of it was when I was about 10 YO (1980) and watched a guy piss his pants waiting in line for the men's restroom. For some reason the dome had an equal amount of mens restrooms as womens. Go figure why this didn't work out well.

My brothers and I attended several Supercross events in the late 70-s / early 80's, by the time the riders made their second attempt at qualifying the upper 400' of the dome filled with 2 stroke oil smoke and we all left with massive headaches.

The last time I attended a game in the KD was at the end of the M's 05 playoff run. Tucked up tight to the 200 level on a warm day. The BO and stagnant air was horrible.

I work in the construction industry and spent a lot of time looking at that " engineering" marvel. It was slapped together like a Yugo. It was a POS and the concrete forming workmanship was pitiful.

I for one don't miss it at all. The structure wasn't good at anything other than bouncing sound back down on the field I the rare occasion that the fans had something to cheer for. Unfortunately the Hawks didn't have many of those.

Good riddance, that building was a POS from day one..

If you think that was bad, you should have seen old Sick's Stadium, the one year home (1969) of the Seattle Pilots. Anytime there was more than 8,000 fans in attendance, there wasn't enough water pressure to flush the toilets.

The Kingdome was built on the cheap, the only way it could have been built back in the mid 70's when the area was going through a major recession...A billboard read "Would the last person out of Seattle please turn out the lights". The buzz words in the professional sports stadium business back then was "multipurpose" and "functional". You're judging it by 21st century standards. It got us baseball and football franchises, something that would have never happened had it not been built. I don't think it needs to be remembered as some sort of monument or shrine, but it would be helpful for those of you that are too young to understand what life was like for area sports fans when the nearest NFL and MLB franchise was 700 miles away to consider how things might have turned out had it not existed and give the place a little bit more respect than referring to it as a POS.

 

[BobcatHawk]

My best memory was skipping school and going to the Sept 26th beatdown of the Angels in '95 with my brother and one of our good friends. That was an epic day.

I haven't had the opportunity to attend any games at either the Clink or Safeco since I live out of the state now, but I hope to experience both soon.

 

[HawkAroundTheClock]

I don't think it needs to be remembered as some sort of monument or shrine, but it would be helpful for those of you that are too young to understand what life was like for area sports fans when the nearest NFL and MLB franchise was 700 miles away to consider how things might have turned out had it not existed and give the place a little bit more respect than referring to it as a POS.

Well said.