Doc Rivers 35 ft ND shot?

[jsglow]

Okay guys.  You are the experts.  Has anybody ever come across a video link?  I'd love to enjoy my greatest thrill at the old MECCA back from my undergrad days.  30 years.  Wow.

[4everwarriors]

Remember it today, like it was yesterday.

[mu_hilltopper]

It was on WISN-12's news tonight. 

[Sir Lawrence]

It was on WISN-12's news tonight. 

'Topper, you watching the old guys news? 

I was at a wedding reception that night.  The groom and his buddies (including me) were in the kitchen of the reception hall watching the game on the cook's 19" Sylvania.  The bride wasn't too pleased, but it made a memory to last, well, forever.

[4everwarriors]

Larry, it was a Saturday afternoon game.

[Sir Lawrence]

Must have been an afternoon reception, or I was already wasted!

[romey]

Okay guys.  You are the experts.  Has anybody ever come across a video link?  I'd love to enjoy my greatest thrill at the old MECCA back from my undergrad days.  30 years.  Wow.

One of my pet peeves - unless I'm wrong, which is entirely possible - it was never the MECCA.  It was the Milwaukee Arena - at least to those of us who grew up in Milwaukee.

[NCAARules]

One of my pet peeves - unless I'm wrong, which is entirely possible - it was never the MECCA.  It was the Milwaukee Arena - at least to those of us who grew up in Milwaukee.

I dunno. I grew up in MKE in the 1980s and it was always called the MECCA while MU was playing there. After the move it changed through a few names I think. (I think when the rest of the MECCA complex was razed to make way for the Midwest Express Center-but quite unsure on that).

Now, you may be getting into semantics, as I believe MECCA was the name of the entire complex, of which a part was the arena. Is that your point?

[Sir Lawrence]

Remember it today, like it was yesterday.

You were right, it was an afternoon game.  I know I was at a wedding reception, but perhaps we stopped at a tavern in between service and party, but I do have a recollection of being in a kitchen of a restaurant or reception hall.

Any way, here's an interesting link.  I either had forgotten, or never knew, that it was a break out game for Marquardt.  

http://www.jsonline.com/historicarchive/search/?searchBy=date&searchText=&dat=19810111&fromDate=01%2F11%2F1981&nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&s.x=34&s.y=9

[brewcity77]

I dunno. I grew up in MKE in the 1980s and it was always called the MECCA while MU was playing there. After the move it changed through a few names I think. (I think when the rest of the MECCA complex was razed to make way for the Midwest Express Center-but quite unsure on that).

Now, you may be getting into semantics, as I believe MECCA was the name of the entire complex, of which a part was the arena. Is that your point?

I was born in 1977 and have lived in Milwaukee my entire life, and I always remember it being the MECCA, before the series of name changes that ended with Midwest Express, or Airlines, or whatever it is now. But throughout the 1980s, everyone I knew called it the MECCA.

[MUfan12]

It was on WISN-12's news tonight. 

Which newscast was it? I went back on demand to see it and neither the 5 or 6 had it.

[willie warrior]

That was a great shot by Rivers.

Anybody remember when David Rivers of ND drove the length of the court against us to beat us at the buzzer. I thaink there was less than 5 seconds to play when that guy started his dagger drive.

[4everwarriors]

Or the Iceman's kick to the groin at the Arena?

[tower912]

That was a great shot by Rivers.

Anybody remember when David Rivers of ND drove the length of the court against us to beat us at the buzzer. I thaink there was less than 5 seconds to play when that guy started his dagger drive.

I was there.  IIRC, Kerry Trotter had just made about a 15 foot baseline jumper to put us up one.   My freshman year.  I had gotten a ticket in the student section for my dad for his birthday present and we were standing there high-fiving with our beer in our other hands.    Then ND inbounds, Rivers goes the length and hits about a 17 footer.   Rat bastage.  I looked at my dad, he at me, we pounded our beers and left.

[GGGG]

One of my pet peeves - unless I'm wrong, which is entirely possible - it was never the MECCA.  It was the Milwaukee Arena - at least to those of us who grew up in Milwaukee.

I believe MECCA stood for Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena and therefore included the entire facilty.  You are correct that Marquette played in the Arena portion, but it isn't inaccurate to say they played in the MECCA.  Furthermore the floor had "MECCA" written all over it and was referred to as such both locally and nationally.

Before the days of corporate naming you had all sorts of snappy names for these arenas...Spectrum, Garden, Salt Palace, Forum, Reunion Arena...

[rocky_warrior]

according to our very own wiki...

    *      Milwaukee Arena (1968-1974)
    *      MECCA Arena (1974-1995)
    *      Milwaukee Arena (aka Wisconsin Center Arena) (1995-2000)
    *      US Cellular Arena (2000-present)

http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/facilities/the_mecca

[NCAARules]

according to our very own wiki...

    *      Milwaukee Arena (1968-1974)
    *      MECCA Arena (1974-1995)
    *      Milwaukee Arena (aka Wisconsin Center Arena) (1995-2000)
    *      US Cellular Arena (2000-present)

http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/facilities/the_mecca

You really know how to kill a debate.

[rocky_warrior]

You really know how to kill a debate.

Or romey proved he's older than everyone else that posted

[jsglow]

Yup.  Arena when I was a kid.  It became MECCA later on.  You guys remember that wild paint job on the floor?  I was a Sophomore that year.  Glen was a highly touted Frosh.  That was his break out game in my mind.

[Marquette_Fan]

Yup.  Arena when I was a kid.  It became MECCA later on.  You guys remember that wild paint job on the floor?  I was a Sophomore that year.  Glen was a highly touted Frosh.  That was his break out game in my mind.

The Psychedelic rainbow floor ?? My Dad remembers that. He said at one time Milwaukee had the coolest playing floor in the country. Then when the game went corporate everything became plain.

As for Doc Rivers footage I looked high and low on youtube for it and cant find it. You think Youtube could remove one of their 20,000 fart videos and put Doc Rivers video in its place.

[77ncaachamps]

I found a clip.

[jsglow]

Maybe Glen has it in an old 'reel to reel' archive.  They only 'action' shot I can find of him is that awesome timeout he called running onto the floor last year in the playoffs!

And I hated the MECCA floor paint job by the way.

[romey]

Or romey proved he's older than everyone else that posted

Well, that may very well be true, but I have some evidence that casts a little doubt on Wiki - which I will be posting as soon as my young whippersnapper kids get home and show me how to post a photo I have.

By the way jsglow I was a sophomore that year as well - when Doc hit the shot.  So I'm not the only "old guy" posting.   

[Marquette_Fan]

I believe MECCA stood for Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena and therefore included the entire facilty.  You are correct that Marquette played in the Arena portion, but it isn't inaccurate to say they played in the MECCA.  Furthermore the floor had "MECCA" written all over it and was referred to as such both locally and nationally.

Before the days of corporate naming you had all sorts of snappy names for these arenas...Spectrum, Garden, Salt Palace, Forum, Reunion Arena...

Speaking of the Spectrum in Philly I think it was torn down a couple of months ago I believe. 

[romey]

Okay, who knows when my son will be home.  I had to prove to myself I'm not senile yet, so i pulled out an old photo album in which I had concert ticket stubs from "back in the day."  I took a picture with my cell phone, sent it to my email and I have a jpeg photo which I can't seem to copy here.  So, I will tell you this, I have not one, not two, but several concert ticket stubs as evidence.  I'm looking at a stub from a Bruce Springsteen concert dated Oct 14, 1980 for an 8:00 performance at - THE MILWAUKEE ARENA.  I have tickets from 1978, 79, 80 and 81 - all at the Milwaukee Arena.

BTW the Springsteen ticket set me back $8.00