Went to this concert. It was one of the most unimpressive and uninspired concerts I’ve ever seen. I think, if memory serves, this was near the end of the tour of North America (like a month or so out). And you genuinely sensed the band was tired. It was the last time I ever liked U2 also. I hated most of their music from that time. Then they rebranded themselves as cheesy alternative when techno went out of style. And now I won’t listen to them after Auchtung Baby. It’s all garbage from Zooropa on. The cool part tho was walking down the steps to the main floor and seeing the hard concrete and looking around during the show imagining how cool it would be to play in front of that place. Really miss the Silverdome. Favorite memory came a few years later, after 9/11/2001 Lions v Rams. Monday Night. They lost a zillion to nothing. But every fan in the stands had an American flag. Those were fun days.
About a minute goes by of Bono clapping his hands every six seconds, then announces, "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies. A voice is heard from the audience with a thick irish brogue saying... "Well then, stop clapping your hands!"
When I think about U2 I think about a bunch of pretentious twits who were "woke" at least 20 years before it became cool. Always so desperate to make their audience feel guilty about something, as if starving children in third world nations and environmental damage was ALL YOUR FAULT.
I do believe that U2 was also the reason that the Montreal Alouettes left Olympic Stadium and moved to Percival Molson Stadium at McGill University. The Alouettes had an improbable home playoff game, and since the Big O was unavailable, they moved permanently to McGill.
I remember two things about the '90s Lions besides Barry Sanders. 1. They'd almost always get off to a bad start, have to battle like crazy to make the playoffs, and then went one and done. 2. They always seemed to beat the Packers at home and lose to them on the road.
U2 concerts impacting football teams isn't limited to the NFL. In November 1997, the CFL's Montreal Alouettes had to move a home playoff date because of a U2 concert at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. It was one of the best things to ever happen to the team. The Als hadn't been close to drawing enough fans to cover the cost of using the Big O. Being forced to move the playoff game to the much smaller Percival Molson Stadium led to the team moving there permanently, as it was a much more appropriate size for the needs (and drawing power) of a CFL team.
The only reason that eyesore still exists is demolition means Montreal's chances of getting another, MLB, team, instantly, go from virtually zero to actually zero, truly, it's a tragic case of denial.
The Tigers were using “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” during the 5th inning when the grounds crew raked the infield dirt. John Denver happened to be an Orioles fan and sang the same song at an Orioles game. The controversy is that John Denver was an Orioles fan, and at the time the Tigers and Orioles were competing regularly to win the AL East. There wasn’t really a controversy. The guy was a fan of another team. That’s the “controversy”.
The Steelers were, so, sure they would win they had, already, made a SB video, that backfired disastrously, twice, first, they completely ignored the Chargers, and, lost, second, the, NFL, decided that they were, "owed," a trip to the SB the following year, and, did the Colts dirty, fortunately, the Cowboys, ultimately, prevented any permanent damage.
@@matthewdaley746 How exactly did the NFL rig it so the Steelers reached the Super Bowl that season? All I remember is the dropped Hail Mary at the end of the AFC title game and Neil O'Donnell taking a dive in the Super Bowl. Nobody can ever convince me he didn't.
@DolFan316 Kordell Stewart ran, out-of-bounds, before scoring what would be the, Game-Winning, TD, the stadium was absolutely blanketed with, "Three More Yards," banners, (in a move, instantly, outlawed), plus, the receiver dropped the, TD, because he was blatantly interfered with, the Colts were owed an untimed down, unfortunately, the, NFL, had, already, decided the Steelers, "deserved," to go to the SB, the Steelers proved, otherwise, against the Cowboys, simple as that.
Please do a video of how good Jimmy Smith was in the clutch. Here are a few to get you started: 1996 game winning TD in Denver, 1996 Hailmary TD at Patriots, 1997 Hailmary before halftime in the Jets playoff game, 2004 4th down against the Bills, 2004 Overtime game winner against Lions, 2005 Jets in overtime, TD against the Colts before halftime in between 2 defenders, and countless 4th down catches and touchdowns.
Intriguing bit of trivia. I wonder if that means that it was Verne Lundquist’s last NFL broadcast. I’m guessing no, as there would surely have been at least one time he was on the 🎙️ when CBS got the NFL back for the 1998 season and onward.
@DanStrayer He did announce NFL games on CBS in 1998 and 1999, including the divisional round playoff game where the Jaguars beat the Dolphins 62-7 in the most lopsided NFL playoff game in the last 83 years. In 2000-2016 he announced SEC games on CBS.
@matthewdaley746 That year Seattle won the AFC West with a 9-7 record, which meant they probably wouldn't have been a playoff team if they were in any other division.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the time the Colts had a practice facility in 1975 that was also not conducive to kicking or much else.
I think the Baltimore Colts, despite a shaky 4-4 start to the season and more then a few anxiety-inducing moments of tension, and melodrama, ended up having a much better, more successful season that year then what the 1997 Lions ended up achieving, barely making into the playoffs as a WC at 9-7 despite a talented WR corps, a decent overall defense, and Barry Sanders providing NFL fans his best season ever of his entire career. His 2,000-yard statistical bonanza of a season seems almost mythical now, but Ive always believed that year was his absolute best. FWIW, of those talented, scrappy, over-achieving Colts teams of the mid-late 70'e, their 1976 team was probably the best of all of them in terms of talent, stats, dominance, team depth and cohesion. They were very good teams still stuck in an age of very great, Dynasty teams like Pitssburgh, Oakland, Miami and later on, Denver. 1976 was easily Bert Jones best year of his underrated career and IMHO, fully deserved winning the season's MVP award.
@@davidroberts7282 '76 Colts had the best point differential of those mid '70s teams (just 2 shy of their best of the decade) and came the closest to winning a playoff game by far. So...yeah. And almost nobody seems to remember that in 97 Barry's first two games were so bad the media was churning out articles asking what was wrong with him. He actually ran for 2000 yards on the nose in the final 14 games after just 53 the first two 😯
The Pistons had to move a playoff game from the' Dome to the Joe in 1984 because a motorcross event had been previously scheduled for that same date. It was the deciding game of the series, too.
POP itself is a massively underrated album. The show at the Silverdome was also Larry's birthday; the crowd sang Happy Birthday to him. And after the concert, the band went to a diner in Hamtramck and shot the video for If God Will Send His Angels.
If the team owned their own venue, this would not have been a problem. When you essentially rent a venue from the city, you are not the only one renting it. More fuel for teams to own it themselves and not expect cities to built it for them.
Taylor Swift is the official spokeswoman for the group who wants to screw over all of humanity. It used to be Madonna, but she was too obvious with the satanism.
@DolFan316 Madonna learned the hard way what happens when popularity is based largely on outrageousness, unquestionably, her downfall was something that could have been seen a country mile away, period, simple as that.
As far as the Patriots vs Dolphins game being postponed and not being able to play at Foxboro. Um.....you do realise Concerts and tours are scheduled long before they play right? I suppose the hurricane, that ( surprise 😂) hit Florida was U2 fault too?
The place where the Lions had to practice was not even better than the real thing. This Lions team played the Buccaneers in the playoffs in Tampa Stadium's final game and lost.
And here I thought the biggest bash on Bono was his incorrect lyric about the MLK assassination (it took place just after 6p local time, a little past "early morning")
"U2 gave arguably the greatest sports halftime show of all time" I almost rage quit the channel. U2 has fewer than 5 songs that are even "arguably" good.
That was a horrible halftime show, in retrospect, considering what the Game itself led to, and, they have exactly two great albums, but, I see them as having a career, possibly, as long as, The, Rolling Stones, despite, their paucity of quality, because, Bono, apparently, has the stage presence that causes people to completely ignore this.
True. But the Lions also NEVER forced people with iPhones to have their debacle AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADED to their phones, like U2 did with 'Songs of Innocence'.
Give them twenty more years, they'll turn out exactly like, The, Rolling Stones, approximately two decades of legendary music, followed by a far longer period of forgettable, (at best), output, with the occasionally great song, with the vast majority of the population ignoring their enormous mediocrity due to their longevity, just sad.
