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The Chop Shop (A-FC Stadium, RIP)
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Atlanta, GA
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Home of the Braves and Falcons from 1966, when the team moved here from Milwaukee until after the 1996 Olympic Games, when the Olympic Stadium was converted to Turner Field. The Falcons moved to the Georgia Dome when it was built in 1991. Here, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record (before my time). When I was a kid, Dale Murphy and Bob Horner were the big stars for the Braves. They were terrible in the 80s, it got so bad that Ted Turner even held races at the stadium with ostrich powered chariots as a promotional to get fans to come watch the games. Then in the 90s, everything changed, we got Bobby Cox as manager and John Schuerholz as GM, and that relationship has produced results: 14 consecutive division titles, 5 pennants, & a world championship aint bad considering what we had just one year before our first pennant, last place.
I remember one night after going to see a game against San Diego in '91, people were out of their heads, the stadium was so loud that I couldn't even think...I'm not exaggerating. Everyone was doing the Tomahawk Chop, shouting that war chant, I mean at the top of their lungs..10s of thousands of people, it got pretty roudy. Anyway, that whole season, we were one loss away from being put out of the division race by the Dodgers. We caught them and barely stayed ahead. That night against the Padres, we were losing, then we tied it, and in the bottom of the ninth, I think it was Ron Gant that hit a 2 run homer to win the game. I've been to many concerts, but I've never heard a place so loud in all my days. The fans were so excited that they continued bellowing that war chant out into the parking lot, and there's a tunnel that connects two lots under Capitol Avenue, and I remember the mass of people walking through there doing that war chant at the top of their lungs and hearing it echo through the tunnel.
See, back in those days, we couldn't even comprehend that an Atlanta team would do well in sports, sure the Hawks were decent, and we had a few individual stars like Nique, Aaron, Niekro, and Murphy, but never so much as a first place finish.
The first Braves batter to step to the plate here was Felipe Alou, and the last batter to step up to the plate in the regular season was his son, Moises Alou, playing for Montreal. His father, Felipe was the Expos manager at the time, too. Freaky. The final game was honorably a World Series game played against New York in 1996.
Home of the Braves and Falcons from 1966, when the team moved here from Milwaukee until after the 1996 Olympic Games, when the Olympic Stadium was converted to Turner Field. The Falcons moved to the Georgia Dome when it was built in 1991. Here, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record (before my time). When I was a kid, Dale Murphy and Bob Horner were the big stars for the Braves. They were terrible in the 80s, it got so bad that Ted Turner even held races at the stadium with ostrich powered chariots as a promotional to get fans to come watch the games. Then in the 90s, everything changed, we got Bobby Cox as manager and John Schuerholz as GM, and that relationship has produced results: 14 consecutive division titles, 5 pennants, & a world championship aint bad considering what we had just one year before our first pennant, last place.
I remember one night after going to see a game against San Diego in '91, people were out of their heads, the stadium was so loud that I couldn't even think...I'm not exaggerating. Everyone was doing the Tomahawk Chop, shouting that war chant, I mean at the top of their lungs..10s of thousands of people, it got pretty roudy. Anyway, that whole season, we were one loss away from being put out of the division race by the Dodgers. We caught them and barely stayed ahead. That night against the Padres, we were losing, then we tied it, and in the bottom of the ninth, I think it was Ron Gant that hit a 2 run homer to win the game. I've been to many concerts, but I've never heard a place so loud in all my days. The fans were so excited that they continued bellowing that war chant out into the parking lot, and there's a tunnel that connects two lots under Capitol Avenue, and I remember the mass of people walking through there doing that war chant at the top of their lungs and hearing it echo through the tunnel.
See, back in those days, we couldn't even comprehend that an Atlanta team would do well in sports, sure the Hawks were decent, and we had a few individual stars like Nique, Aaron, Niekro, and Murphy, but never so much as a first place finish.
The first Braves batter to step to the plate here was Felipe Alou, and the last batter to step up to the plate in the regular season was his son, Moises Alou, playing for Montreal. His father, Felipe was the Expos manager at the time, too. Freaky. The final game was honorably a World Series game played against New York in 1996.
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