Farewell to the Palace: Pistons vs. Wizards thread
It's the end of an era from the Bad Boys to Chauncey Billups. Next year they move to Pizzarena.
We say farewell to Michigan State football as we knew it the last few years...
Maybe not exactly next, but I'm betting we have a different President within the next year.
i have a suggestion, ion honor of red's retirement, putin on ice...
He's sacrificing his magnificent physique to stop a slapshot, duh
the cute dog. incidentally, how is the new job?
more pics for your avatar. just google 'putin playing hockey', there's a truckload of them. get rid of the dog, get a hockey player avatar. kgb guys love hockey!
strong chance of this one being photoshopped though....
Ok ...well maybe
April 10th, 2017 at 11:23 PM ^
many offshore betting sites have it up as an official prop bet.... not the next year but 4 years at least is the bet.
This. Always felt like driving to the Palace was going to a different corner of the universe. Sprawl hell. So exciting to see all the teams downtown again.
The reality for some of us is this right here - when I lived in Ann Arbor and we were going to Bad Boys era games, it was a trek. When I bought my own home downriver and we were going to see those 2003-04 teams, it was still a trek. The Palace was a great venue, but LCA is going to be far more convenient for those of us west and south of Detroit. Admittedly, it's selfish, but it opens the door for more Pistons games.
Or you could've just moved to Oakland County like a normal civilized person. *eye roll*
It's good for Detroit that they're moving downtown but it's still surreal to me that they're leaving the Palace. I remember when it was opened - doesn't seem that long ago.
And yet it's the fourth-oldest arena in the NBA. Which is totally nuts.
Still a nice arena. I like it.
Maybe they can get like an arena football team or something?
Now's the time to pull Goose Finnerty out of mothballs and get ROCKERS. IS.SOCCER. back in the mix!
it's not gonna sit. It's gonna be redeveloped.
The land is really valuable.
www.freep.com/story/money/business/columnists/2016/11/21/palace-auburn-…
Yeah, it's crazy to me the amount of resources that get spent on these sports arenas, then they're discarded as not good enough a mere 30 years later. This is (part of the reason) why I will NEVER vote for public funding for a sports arena.
April 10th, 2017 at 10:43 PM ^
The situation with the Expos was a little more complicated than that. They were bought by a man (Jeffrey Loria) who never wanted the team to stay in Montreal, and he basically destroyed the franchise and salted the earth beneath it. They didn't even have a local TV deal the last few years. MLB then rewarded him by taking the massively-devalued franchise off his hands and letting him buy the Marlins. Loria and Bud Selig were later sued by the minority partners of the franchise for racketeering.
National coverage on TNT
April 10th, 2017 at 10:11 PM ^
I've always felt like the Pistons had a far more regional fanbase after the move to the Palace. They were much more popular in Oakland County and the East Side in general, and pretty much didn't register interest on the other side of town. Meanwhile, everyone loved the Tigers, Red Wings, and Lions, even when they were bad.
Not always. During the '80s, when the Pistons had Isiah and were gradually building a winner, they were drawing huge crowds (60,000 for one regular-season game), while the Wings were laboring through their "Dead Wing" era. Not that many people were into the Wings at that time. The long playoff streak has converted a lot of people.
April 10th, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^