Rewind: Raiders-Seahawks 1987 Week 12 with Ray Delahanty (CityNerd) - Remember That Game

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4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Originally aired August 2023. Ray Delahanty (CityNerd) joins host Thomas Emerick to discuss Seattle vs. LA, Bo Jackson vs. Brian Bosworth, and how well certain sports venues fit their cities. We also delve into Seattle's long history of identity as a sort of a nice, passive city tucked away in the upper corner of the country that was always in the shadow of Los Angeles. The Seattle Seahawks and LA Raiders capture this on a Monday night in late 1987, and we unpack some of the related urban planning dynamics with those franchises over the years. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More on the LA Raiders visiting the Seattle Seahawks to cap Week 12 in 1987: Raiders 37, Seahawks 14 (Pro Football Reference) The Land of Boz poster (Costacos Brothers via Sports Illustrated) CityNerd's Top NFL stadiums for transit (YouTube) Latest on-location vignette (YouTube) Channel on YouTube and Nebula Bo Jackson highlights (Raiders team website) Bo vs. The Boz (NFL Throwback game supercut) Cruisin' with the Tooz book cover (AbeBooks) For designer of Kingdome, its demise blows him away (The Seattle Times) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest CityNerd creator Ray Delahanty (@Nerd4Cities) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and in the season of giving, give yourself what YOU need – with BetterHelp. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off your first purchase. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Follow and direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	because of the size he was and how fast, like the speed he got up to.
0:04.4	He almost needed, it's like he needed all that extra runway just to decelerate from what
0:09.3	you had just done to the Seahawks.
0:16.0	It's November 87, L.A. Raiders at the Seattle Seahawks.
0:25.6	This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey, and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.
0:27.6	I'm your host Thomas Semerick, and my guest is Ray DeLahanty, whose YouTube channel City Nerd
0:32.6	explores urbanism and features some great videos on how sporting venues fit their city.
0:38.0	Some say Seattle's Old Kingdom visually resembled a tomb, but the building felt alive on ABC's
0:44.1	Monday night football with Seattle in the AFC driver's seat as Bo Jackson's debut tour rode
0:50.3	into town.
0:51.3	Ray, did this bring you back to a place in time with your plucky Seattle
0:55.4	sports teams and their great throwbacks hosting your perennial Western overlords from Los Angeles?
1:02.1	Yeah, for sure. So I grew up in Seattle and still to this day, even though I haven't lived there
1:09.6	for a couple of decades.
1:11.6	I'm primarily a Seattle sports fan.
1:13.6	And at the time, your fandom kind of revolved somewhat around rivalries, particularly with Los Angeles-based teams,
1:25.6	either the Lakers relative to how the Sonics were doing,
1:29.8	or in this era, I think the Raiders were kind of the key rival for the Seahawks.
1:35.6	L.A. had the winningest franchises of the previous 10 years in the Raiders and Lakers as far as
1:40.8	titles in their respective league. But here in late 87, did it feel like an ascendant time in Seattle as a city and a sports town?
1:48.5	And how much did the shadow of L.A. loom?
1:51.5	Yeah, I don't know if it felt ascendant overall.
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