Word: coliseum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than two weeks, the 1980-81 National Hockey League season gets underway. The exhibition schedule is already half gone, and opening night at Boston Garden and the Coliseum and the Spectrum and Maple Leaf Gardens and Le Forum quick approaches even as George Brett struggles to hit .400 and the Yankees near yet another pennant. It is a cycle as old as life itself...
That was 1978, I told him. The Islanders were supposed to win it all that year. Instead, they had choked in the quarter-finals against the Maple Leafs. The series ended before the usual sell-out at the Coliseum when Lanny McDonald scored at 4:13 of overtime in the decisive seventh game. It was a wondrous sight, to see a sports arena become a morgue...
...region's first modern jetport, which helped attract a wave of corporate immigrants. More than 80% of the top 500 U.S. companies now have offices in Atlanta. The number of conventions held there has soared from 440 in 1968 to 860 this year. Atlanta's trade-show coliseum, the Georgia World Congress Center, already booked solid through 1989, is asking the state legislature for $86 million to almost double its size. Hartsfield's eight daily international flights to seven countries have also helped attract foreign firms like West Germany's Commerzbank to Atlanta...
...first Stanley Cup championship in the team's eight years, Captain Denis Potvin hoisted the 31-lb. silver trophy above "his head and as tradition dictates, skated triumphantly around the rink. Other Islanders rolled on the ice in glee, while some 15,000 fans roared out of Nassau Coliseum and turned Hempstead Turnpike into the world's loudest parking lot. Said Rookie Ken Morrow: "I just can't believe...
...team stayed up all night drinking champagne from the commodious cup. A few days later, 30,000 Islander fans ended up in front of the Coliseum in Uniondale, L.I., for a victory celebration. "People are still out there honking their horns," marveled Nystrom, who, like the fans, was still somewhat bemused that the Islanders had not blown it again. "It's unbelievable...