Veterans Memorial Coliseum

They're going through a bit of a longer road trip through BC that'll also take them down to Spokane.

They're out of their building due to Disney on ice going on at Memorial Coliseum.

They'll spend some time at Sun Peaks, just about, what, 40 minutes away from Kamloops? And I asked head coach Kyle Gustafson about a little bit of a team getaway.

Yeah, we did it a couple years ago, and we really enjoyed our time there.

They're going through a bit of a longer, uh, road trip through BC that'll also take them down to Spokane.

They're out of their building due to Disney on Ice going on at, uh, Memorial Coliseum.

Th- they'll spend some time at Sun Peaks, just about, what, 40 minutes away from Kamloops.

Uh, and I asked, uh, Head Coach Kyle Gustafson about a little bit of a team getaway.

The best one was, uh, Poison in Portland, Oregon, and the thing is, and when they were on tour a couple of times, they kept skipping Portland, or there was, you know, uh, Bret Michaels had a diabetic reaction, or he blew his vocal cords out, so they kept skipping Portland.

And eventually, when they did come to Portland, me and my brother, Harold, we were at the Memorial Coliseum, and our seats were in this little a- little cove area where the, the guardrails are.

And so we had, like, this extra room to kinda, like, move around because that, when they're rocking, when Poison's rocking, you're not sitting.

You're dancing, you're, you're pumping your arm, and you're just wow, you know, just going at it, and that's the best concert I remember, just because of the standing room and not worried about bumping into anybody and just enjoying the rocking.

Lionel Hollins now introduced, and the fans are going wild.

[crowd cheering] And now, ladies and gentlemen, will you join us all here at Portland's Memorial Coliseum for the playing and the singing of our national anthem.

You know number three, and hopefully number four, and of course that means the NBA Championship Finals, but one game at a time.

Oh, yes.

Hey, number one.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, will you join us all here at Portland's Memorial Coliseum for the playing and the singing of our national anthem.

– – number three, and hopefully number four, and of course, that means the NBA Championship Finals, but one game at a time.

Oh, yes.

During our Ringside in Rose City look at July of 1969, Mike Rogers and I talked about the problem.

Attendance was down from what Don Owen had enjoyed at the Armory, and from the big crowds he could draw at Memorial Coliseum.

Even a Lou Thesz appearance had topped out around 2,250.

Don Owen needed something to get the territory hot again.

Yeah.

I got to ask, are there contingency plans if it's not available? Have you looked at Memorial Coliseum? If you have, are there things that need to happen there to make that work for you?

Yeah, I think that's just probably too soon to talk about.

Yeah.