Roller Game Of The Week
Games were skated at the Showboat Sports Pavilion in Las Vegas, with the exception of Eastern War-Chiefs games which were played at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Our Roller Game of the Week is game one of the World Series that takes place at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in 1978. As a very small boy who failed on many a Saturday night to stay awake long enough to watch the Ghoul, I discovered that Roller Derby was exciting enough to keeep me up until 11:30.
Its time now for the Roller Game of the week with the L.A. T-birds and Detroit Devils from Olympic Auditorium. Your announcer for this 1964 game (second half) is Bill Griffiths.
The show took place in the Super Roller Dome (which was actually an airport hangar), where all matches were broadcast. Instead of a banked oval track, a figure eight track was used where one side was heavily banked. Every week, two of the total six skating teams battle for points.
Theyre toughies, with team names that sound like heavy metal bands: The Maniacs, Bad Attitude, the Violators, Hot Flash, the... Games were skated at the Showboat Sports Pavilion in Las Vegas, with the exception of Eastern War-Chiefs games which were played at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Our Roller Game of the Week took place at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in 1978.
Your announcers for this classic banked-track roller derby contest (second half) are... RollerGames, in its final form, was an extravagant attempt to meld together WWE wrestling and roller derby, which ended in failure in the short term. It has emerged as an eclectic piece of time from the early 1990s however, which gives all the more reason to do some research into it.
Our Roller Game of the Week took place at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in 1979. Our video is courtesy of Scott Stephens, author of the book Rolling Thunder, The Golden Age of Roller Derby and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. T-Birds.
