1966 Roller Games: L.A. T-Birds vs Texas Outlaws (111-113)
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Our Roller Game of the Month took place at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA, in 1966.
Our video is courtesy of Planet Blue Publishing / Scott Stephens, author of the bestselling book.
"Rolling Thunder," The Golden Age of Roller Derby and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. T-Birds.
www.amazon.com/Rolling-Thunde...
This classic contest is one of only a handful of Thunderbirds' Games that survive from the 1960s.
Your announcers are Ed Derian and Peter Kelly.
Sadly, only one game with Dick Lane is known to exist.
T-Birds Historical Website: latbirds.net/
Special thanks to Scott Fricke, who provided all of the raw content for this Roller Games series.
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Good old days 😔
Whoa Nellie! Dick Lane must of been out looking for those helmets. Missed hearing him.
Lol, I was going to share this game with a newbie, but he wouldn't understand this post production stuff, like 8 years later, for no good reason. I'm going to look for another game....
Go T-Birds!
I can not believe Liz Hernandez scored like that. That was something.
These games were so exciting to watch. Amazing men and women skaters on both teams. Sowinski, Lynch, Hernandez, Hardman, Reilly, Trotter, Rossner. Great skaters, all of them.
CANT BELIEVE THE KING JIM TROTTER PASSED THIS YEAR HE WAS ROLLER GAMES GOD 1970 71 72 I WORSHIPED THIS MAN BACK THEN WANTED TO BE A SKATER LIKE HIM LOVED HIS FEUDS WITH LESTER QUARLES GOT A CHANCE TO SHAKE HIS HAND ONCE ALMOST LOST MY MIND RIP KING YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ONE OF THE GREATEST
Go T Birds!
Where's Ralphie Valadaras? He spent 30 years with the T-Birds yet of all the games from the 60s on CZcams he's not in a single one. How's that possible?
Ralphie was in Australia during this period, skating and training skaters.
Wow, a lot of Good Blocking on that one. Amazing to see Richard Brown get up and skate again after he slid through players.
Shirley Hardman really hit the deck Earlier in the game. That was some action.
Where's Ralphie Valadaras? He spent 30 years with the T-Birds yet of all the games from the 60s on CZcams he's not in a single one. How's that possible?
“The helmets were lost in shipment.” Such nonsense. This telecast from 1966 was being rebroadcast a decade later with new commentary (Pete Kelly was fine, but the other guy was clueless) for a different market and they were trying to pass it off as a recent game. But the simple reason they didn’t have helmets is because Roller Games (the Bill Griffith franchise) didn’t use them until the late 60s.
You are correct sir!
How little Ed Darian knew of banked track history.
@@strouther1 I knew the real Strother Martin - lived at Malibu Lake, great actor wonderful man.
Dick Lane and Walt Harris were so strongly identified with their skating and wrestling companies here in California it was strange to hear the broadcasts without them. For me at least.
Dick came up here and filled in for Walt for wrestling a few times as I recall. But I don't remember if Walt, also a producer for the S.F. Giants radio broadcasts, ever made the trip down to SoCal. When National All-Star Wrestling (S.F.) lost it's Bay Area TV, Big Time Wrestling (Shires' Sacramento show) was syndicated on a S.F. then San Jose station as well. I don't remember Dick ever doing that show or the Bombers live or taped broadcasts.
In my opinion Lane was more integral to the L.A. shows than Harris was up here. The BTW voice, Hank Renner, was adequate but couldn't touch Dick or Walt with a ten foot microphone. Dick and Walt are on my list of Top Five All Time pro rasslin' voices along with good ol' JR, Lance Russell, and, of course, Gordon Solie. They all brought a style that sold the business not only as sport but as important as baseball, football, and basketball. And to this list L.A. Olympic Auditorium ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Sr whose sonorous "Richmond 9, 5-1-7-1" has yet to be equaled even by the great Michael Buffer.
This game sounds overdubbed for reasons that would make no sense to me. I'm thinking that there were games from this era that Dick Lane called around. Elmer Anderson, HoF skater of the original Derby as well as the vox for the Phildelphia/Hawaii/Eastern Warriors and Washington/Baltimore/Atlantic Cats, and others. Elmer usually is solid. This is about as energetic as "Elbows" is now eight feet under. I think that Bill Griffith's son also did some games that might be on YT.
Thank you, T-Birds for all of the many years of one of the original versions of sports entertainment.
I really loved seeing Shirley those days.
Where's Ralphie Valadaras? He spent 30 years with the T-Birds yet of all the games from the 60s on CZcams he's not in a single one. How's that possible?
Little Richard Brown went right off the track to the Arena floor. How do you ever get up from that one?
Those are some strong referees!
Where's Ralphie Valadaras? He spent 30 years with the T-Birds yet of all the games from the 60s on CZcams he's not in a single one. How's that possible?
Wellington here. No helmets eh?
Where's Ralphie Valadaras? He spent 30 years with the T-Birds yet of all the games from the 60s on CZcams he's not in a single one. How's that possible?