The Seventies

The??Dallas Chaparrals were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. Though successful on the court, the team drew poorly. In 1973, the team was acquired by a group of San Antonio businessmen in a deal that gave them a three-year option...

The Kentucky Bourbons were a men's softball team that played in several professional leagues from 1977 to 1982 at Bishop David Stadium. The team was part of the first live broadcast on a fledgling cable sports channel called ESPN. The Bourbons played the Milwaukee...

The Memphis Americans played in the original Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) from 1981 to 1984 at the Mid-South Coliseum. They began in 1979 as the Hartford Hellions. In 1984 they became the Las Vegas Americans for one season, before folding in the spring...

The original Rowdies played in the old North American Soccer League from 1974 until that league's demise in 1985. They continued on in a variety of indoor and outdoor leagues until 1993.

The Denver Rockets, first known as the Denver Larks, were charter members of the American Basketball Association in 1967. Originally awarded to Kansas City, the franchise was shifted to Colorado when an arena lease could not be secured in Missouri. Kansas City would eventually...

Mississippi Nights was a music club and concert venue located at 914 N 1st Street. From its opening in 1979, it hosted such acts as INXS, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, The Killers, and many more.

Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970 as the new home of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. Similar to other so-called cookiecutter stadiums of the era (The Vet in Philadelphia, Riverfront in Cincinnati, etc.), Three Rivers...

The Detroit Caesars were a men's professional softball team that began play in the American Professional Slo-Pitch Softball League (APSPL) in 1977. They won the championship in 1978 and were owned by Mike??Ilitch, whose heirs currently own the Detroit Tigers. Ilitch was also an...

In 1976, 95.5 FM WDHF became WMET but kept its top-40 format. Two years later it changed to an Album Oriented Rock (AOR) format and remained very popular. Today the station is WEBG and plays country music. READ MORE

The Kingdome was planned as far back as the late 60's as part of the effort to bring Major League Baseball to Seattle. In 1969, the Pilots came and went after one season, playing at old Sick's Stadium as plans for the dome stalled....

Opened in 1910 to replace South Side Park, Comiskey Park was the home of the Chicago White Sox for 80 years and was also the home field of the Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League from 1941 t 1952. It was also...

The original American Basketball Association (ABA) was founded in 1967 as a challenger to the established NBA. After fierce competition between the two for fans and players, 4 ABA teams were absorbed by the NBA in 1976. The Kentucky Colonels, the league's most successful...

Charter members of the World Football League (WFL) in 1974, the Memphis Southmen began as the Toronto Northmen. However, before the team could play a down, the Canadian government passed legislation to block any U.S.-based football league from operating in Canada. Unwilling to undergo...

While the American Basketball Association had teams in over 20 cities over its 10 seasons, it awarded only one expansion franchise, the San Diego Conquistadors. That was in 1972, the start of the rebel league's fifth season. The team made the playoffs its first...

The original North American Soccer League (NASL) was formed in 1967 when the competing United Soccer Association and the National Professional Soccer League decided to join forces. For the next 12 seasons, it was the top-level league for outdoor soccer in the U.S. and...

The St. Louis Stars played in the original North American Soccer League from 1968 to 1977. The Stars fielded mostly American players, many from the St. Louis area. In their final season in St. Louis, they drew nearly 10,000 fans per game. However, they...

The Sting played in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1975 to 1984 and the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in the 1982-83 season and again from 1984 to 1988. They won the NASL Championship in 1981 and 1984. The team was dissolved...

County Stadium was originally developed to replace aging Borchert field which dated to 1888. At the time ground was broken, the city was home to a AA team but hoped to attract a big league club. Indeed, the minor league team would never play...

County Stadium??opened in 1953 and was home to two Milwaukee baseball teams. In 1973, the beer slide and chalet debuted in the stadiums outfield seating area. A character dubbed Bernie slid down the slide and into a giant beer mug after every home run...

The??Anaheim Amigos were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. After a year in Orange County, they moved up the freeway to Los Angeles for two seasons where they became known as the Stars. In 1970 they moved to Salt Lake...

The Hartford Knights began play in 1968 as members of the minor league Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL), winning the championship in their first year. They also won a championship in the Seaboard Football League (SFL) in 1972, their first year in that circuit....

The Charleston Charlies were members of the International League and played in West Virginia's capital from 1971 to 1983, although as to different incarnations. The Columbus Jets relocated to Charleston in 1971 to establish the first edition of the Charlies. They moved back to...

The Providence Reds (also known as the Rhode Island Reds) started in the Canadian-American Hockey League in 1926. They continued with that circuit when it became the American Hockey League in 1936. In 1976, the became the Rhode Island Reds, before moving to Binghamton,...

The Carolina Cougars began as the Houston Mavericks, charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. The club relocated to North Carolina in 1969, splitting home games between Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro. The latter is where they played most of their games...

The Seattle Rainiers began in 1903 as the Seattle Indians. In 1938, beer magnate Emil Sick bought the team and renamed it after his Rainier brewery. He also built the team a new home, Sick's Stadium. In 1965 they became a farm team of...

KZEW, "The Zoo," debuted in the fall of 1973 after changing its call letters from WFAA, which first went on the air in 1947. Throughout the rest of the 70s and two the end of the 80s, KZEW was??the??rock & roll station in Dallas....

Available in a tee on natural (tan), and white (tee, V-neck, tank, crewneck and hooded sweatshirt). The World Football League (WFL) kicked off in July of 1974 as a rival to the established National Football League (NFL). At first, it seemed like it would...

In 1971, Buffalo was granted an expansion franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed the Sabres, the league???s newest member needed a farm team that would play in the American Hockey League (AHL). The AHL also needed to replace the Buffalo Bison what...

The Big Red Machine dominated the National League from 1970 to 1979 and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history.

The characters Lenny and Squiggy, from the hit 70's-era sit-com "Laverne & Shirley," formed a band during the course of that TV series. In 1979, the actors who portrayed them, Michael McKean and David Lander, released an album as the duo. McKean would go...