Soccer Mavn: NASL 1976- Seattle Sounders @ St. Louis Stars: 1st Half

Source:Soccer Mavn- the Seattle Sounders and St. Louis Stars, from 1976.

"In the wake of New York Cosmos' signing of Pele in June 1975, North American Soccer League clubs were on the lookout for international talent to bring into the league.  While some teams spent exorbidantly (e.g., Los Angeles Aztecs' acqusition of George Best; Tampa Bay Rowdies' signing of Rodney Marsh), the Seattle Sounders were able to acquire 1966 England World Cup hat trick hero Geoff Hurst as a free agent after his unceremonious release from West Bromwich Albion.

This footage is the opening 9 minutes or so of Hurst's regular season debut with Seattle, a 2-nil loss to St. Louis Stars on April 17, 1976 before 8,154 at Washington University's Francis Field.  Hurst did score the game winner in Seattle's home opener against Portland Timbers eight days later, and finished the season with 8 goals in 23 matches.

The opposition was a novelty in American soccer at the time, as the St. Louis Stars were the only NASL team that fielded a primarily American-born team.  Both goals for the Stars came from the original "Captain America," Al Trost, who finished the season with 12 goals and was named a second team all-star in midfield in the postseason.  Trost was also a two-time Hermann Trophy winner (1969, 1970), collegiate soccer's equivalent of the Heisman.  Trost was capped 14 times for the United States in an era when the country did not play many matches." 

From Soccer Mavn

The MLS should be in St. Louis which has always been one of the best pro soccer markets in America. I think St. Louis has always been a modern, outdoor, football/soccer stadium away, from having major league soccer outdoors, in St. Louis. They've always been one of the best indoor soccer markets in anywhere in the world, because they've always had an arena for indoor soccer, hockey, and basketball. But they've never had a major league caliber outdoor stadium for soccer or football.

NASL Video: NASL 1977- Los Angeles Aztecs @ Dallas Tornado: First Half

Source:NASL History- the Los Angeles Aztecs vs the Dallas Tornado, from 1977.

"1977 05 07 Los Angeles Aztecs at Dallas Tornado" 

From NASL History

I'm not sure about this, but I the announcer for this game sounds like Al Michaels, who of course worked for ABC Sports in the 1970s and 80s and was doing primarily college football for ABC Sports and a little of Monday Night Baseball for MLB. But there's very little information about what network or station produced the TV coverage for this game. And I just don't much about this game, but wanted to see it because I like NASL soccer and these two teams were both pretty good. 

Joey Teefizz: MISL 1985- MISL Finals Game 5- Baltimore Blast @ San Diego Sockers: Highlights

Source:Joey Teeifzz- the Bast and Sockers for the 1985 MISL Championship.

"MISL Baltimore Blast at SD Sockers Game 5 Finals 5-28-85. Game 5 in San Diego in front of a good crowd... 

From Joey Teefizz

This is sort of the Celtics-Lakers matchup of the MISL as far as how successful the Baltimore Blast and San Diego Sockers have been.

Tom Hayden: ‘Did Anti-War & Lifelong Democrat Tom Hayden Send Generation a Huge Message?’

Source:BBC News- Tom Hayden & Jane Fonda.

“Hayden died in his home in Santa Monica “after a lengthy illness”, the Los Angeles Times reports.

He was a member of the “Chicago seven” charged with conspiracy over anti-Vietnam war protests in 1968 and eventually acquitted.

Hayden later served in the California state assembly and Senate for nearly two decades. He was married to actress Jane Fonda between 1973 and 1990.

Born in Michigan in 1939, he became an activist during his time at the University of Michigan, where he helped to found Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

While there, he wrote a policy document called the Port Huron Statement, which he styled the “agenda for a generation.” 

From BBC News 

“DemocracyNow.org – We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. The youth-led movement changed the very language of politics and its impact is still being felt today. Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator.” 

Source:Democracy Now- Students For a Democratic Society founder Tom Hayden.

From Democracy Now 

Every generation in America is different, but from really the founding of the American Federal Republic in the 1770s, to up to the early and mid 1960s, America was dominated by a social collectivist culture about what it meant to be an American.

And then we go through the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s and even with that you have this generation of Americans who were born during that period (1925-41) who were growing during the Great Depression of the 1930s and then World War II during the 1940s and then the 1950s comes with America returning to prosperity, but with a generation of Silent babies who weren’t satisfied with that prosperity, who wanted more for themselves and for Americans who were left out of that prosperity, especially women and minorities.

This is the generation of Americans that Tom Hayden is from and represents as someone who was born in 1939 and grew up in the 1940s and 50s and went to college in the 1960s and lived through the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement that happened later in that decade. Who saw and viewed an America that didn’t work for everyone, especially themselves.

And then you have the Baby Boomers who came of age in the 1960s who joined this New-Left political movement that was about total equality between the races and between men and women, who were also antiwar. Who also wanted a new America, a new form of government, new economic system, to create an American socialist state that would work for everyone and even use violence in some cases to achieve those political goals.

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ABC Evening News: ‘March 1972, Campaign News’

Source:ABC News- Howard K. Smith, longtime anchor of the ABC Evening News.

“In this rare clip, One of Nixon’s primary challengers drop out, the Republican accuse AT&T of not making the Democrats pay phone bills, African Americans have their own convention Jesse Jackson makes an apprentice, also news on Northern Ireland.” 

From E-Fan

One way to sum up the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, is to say it went to the guy who was damaged the least and not to the best candidate. Because there was really never any real danger to President Nixon losing reelection. But about how big of victory he would get and what he would do with it.

The Democratic race for president between Senator’s George McGovern, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and others, was great TV and very interesting. And a very good look inside of the Democratic Party was between its establishment Center-Left, that Senator Muskie and Senator Humphrey represented and the more social democratic New-Left that Senator McGovern represented in 1972.

The story about the Black Panthers (a New-Left socialist and communist group interested in the state of the African-American community) was interesting. They were in and outside of the Democratic Party back then and much further left of the NAACP which is more of a progressive Center-Left civil rights organization who are definitely tied to the Democratic Party as their supporters are.

The word militant is perfect for the Black Panthers, because that is what they were. And at the very least were linked and associated with known terrorists and criminals. And were accused of being part of terrorists acts in the 1970s. They were looking for a much more radical direction for the African-American community than the NAACP.

Apparently big business’s and other special interests on the Democratic Party and Republican Party was also a big issue in 1972. Of course it was which is why I still don’t know why Congress has never passed a full-disclosure law on all federal candidates and incumbents. Actually I do, because neither Democrats, or Republicans want to disclose who contributes to their campaigns. Because a lot of those contributors are controversial and Democrats and Republicans don’t want to officially be associated with groups like that. But that along with ending gerrymandering completely is the only way you weed out corruption in American politics. Because of how liberal our First Amendment is. 

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Turner Sports: NBA 1988- Los Angeles Lakers @ Boston Celtics: Full Game

Source:Turner Sports- Boston Celtics off-guard Danny Ainge.

"1987 Celtics vs Lakers regular season" 

From Old School Sports

I couldn't watch enough NBA basketball back in the 1980s when the Celtics and Lakers ruled. Great rivalry because it had great teams.

MySpace: 'The New MySpace'

Source:MySpace- is the new MySpace better than the old? Don't see how it could get worst.

"The New Myspace" 

From the new MySpace

Hopefully the new MySpace doesn't suck as much as the current MySpace. (Fingers crossed) 

What MySpace really needs is someone who knows how to run a modern social media company. At its best, MySpace was a combination of the best of Facebook and Twitter, where you could follow people, instead of having to friend them, but where you could write long posts, notes, blog posts, even from your MySpace account. That's what it looked like back in 2009-10. Now it looks a piece of garbage where even posting things on it is difficult and where maybe no one will actually see it, because everyone you follow on MySpace or who follows you, has now left.