When they played at the LA Coliseum (Highlights) 

And he continued to do play-by-play for the Dodgers for another 8 years after the game above was played, retiring in 2016 after 67 years in the booth!

RIP legend

It looks more like 1977 to me

The quality looks more like 1988 more than 2008 I know there's like wayyy higher quality vids on 2007

Facts

Lol, you're correct.

Because this is a vhs recording

How about one regular season series a year?

@@diamonddog13 That works too! However I think it would have to be like early summer at the latest cuz Idk when USC football starts practicing for their upcoming season. You know?

And an NFL game at Dodger Stadium? Well, maybe not.

1 Pre-season game for each team where they basically out-compete each other to find the most ridiculous and out of the way stadiums to play the game in

@@Therecreep honestly I’d pay to see that lol. It has to be a place where there’s like a lot of obstacles that one can trip over and have the sprinklers going and stuff lol

The soccer part is 99.9999999999% true. There are regulation rules for sure, but there is one professional soccer team in America, New York City Football Club (NYCFC), that play at Yankee Stadium with a much smaller field! Soccer fans hate it, which I get of course because it is highly unusual and ugly, but I think that it is high key fun to have an irregular field sometimes!

Soccer has variable dimensions. Hockey used to, and some international rinks are wider than NHL rinks.

look at this guy say “soccer“ has set dimensions, you just need a ball and u can play anywhere there’s a reason why football is so big around the world

Is there a standard size for a boxing ring? Curious

idk, i feel like soccer can be played with even more less set dimensions then baseball.

I use to work with Steve Garvey’s step-daughter years ago at a Vintage clothing store off of Melrose in Los Angeles, Ca.

Vin Scully saying, “it’s not a freakish ballpark, it’s just unusual.” Sounds like they made him say that, since it does look freakish.😂

That would be a good setup, but the Dodgers wanted to replicate the dimensions as close as possible to when they originally played in the Coliseum.

That’s insane

With Don Drysdale @ 22 years old in '59, and Sandy Koufax @ 23 years old in '59, you can see why they won the World Series in 1959.

Never cared for people whose second team is in the same league. Go get an AL team and have em as your ‘2nd team’ bozo. I don’t even like either teams but I’m also not gonna have my favorite and 2nd favorite teams in the same league.

@@LemurJackson what’s up your butt?

@@romangimignani2487 I actually agree with Lemur. Don't even have a second team in fact how about that?

​@@Wisconsin654 @LemurJackson You two ladies should go on a date.

​@@LemurJackson Blow me, bozo

Yeah and not a single dodger player could hit a home run over the left field little league wall. 😂

😂

Well it’s a preseason game but it looks normal to me

because the video is from a VHS tape of the broadcast. I used VHS myself into the mid-2010s to back-up copies of important games because a DVR will automatically overwrite stuff if you don't protect it. They will make anything look like it's from the 80s or 90s.

yeah it was cheaper to have a vhs player to record rather buying a DVD recorder at that time

Because it’s recording in standard definition, do you not know the difference between SD and HD?

It is from the early 90s. Wakefield played forever.

Soon this venue will be hosting a NASCAR cup series race

@@danielkurlan182 And a couple years from now, it'll be hosting the Olympics *again*.

@@danielkurlan182 not a real cup race it's a preseason exhibition but still cool i guess...

Plus a 'Soccer' World Cup Game in '94... Fact?

Will never happen!

@@benjaminfeige7986 seems like you’re almost rooting for it never to happen…

@@benjaminfeige7986 why you say that? Lol

Imagine a re-enactment in 2008 being nostalgic! Wow!!!

@@benjaminfeige7986 lol are you rooting for that to happen?

Yeah, thats why they added the wire that you need to clear in order to score

No….No they should not…..

I disagree, the dodgers fanbase is immensely massive, yes the Red Sox fanbase is large but you can’t compete with the dodgers in their own town, the coliseum is almost totally blue

@@Giratina1999 Red Sox have blue hats so…

@@Giratina1999 You have a point there. The year before, the Red Sox was playing A Weekend Series at San Diego and I was at The Sunday Game of that series with San Diego’s Jake Peavy going up against Josh Beckett. Tickets were so scarce in that game that I had no choice but to take A Field Level Seat close to the Left Field Foul Pole. From there you can’t see the ball when The Pitcher is pitching. We packed the house in all 3 games of this series and set A San Diego Padres Record for the highest attendance in a Weekend Series.

Most likely bandwagon Red Sox fans than transplants. Sports fans like whichever team is winning at the moment or the teams with the most history of winning. Remember, Boston came to Dodger Stadium in the early 2000’s, if I remember correctly. Granted, they hadn’t recently won it at the time, but, they’re still a storied franchise with a large out-of-market fan base just because they’re the Boston Red Sox. Just like the Dodgers have a large out-of-market following because they’re the Los Angeles Dodgers. You really believe Anaheim and Miami are hearing the same level of cheering on the road?

@@Fakename70 Yeah, I remember. 2002, when the Red Sox visited Dodger Stadium, I was also at that Sunday Afternoon Game, even though I got there around the 3rd Inning with a date, tickets were still available so I got us 2 tickets and by the time we were seated already it was 4-0 Dodgers. Then they would put up another 5 runs in the 3rd and that was all they needed as the Dodgers won that game, 9-6. This would be Boston’s final season of tyranny, even though they still had Pedro and Manny, Big Papi was in Minnesota, Johnny Damon was in Oakland, with Keith Foulke, and Curt Schilling was in Arizona fresh off a World Series Championship. As soon as they got all 4 of them, along with Dave Roberts at the Trading Deadline, that’s when the Red Sox seriously turned the corner and there was no looking back after the 2004 Season.

it's also home to a joke of a college football program

The Big House can hold 115k for a football game. Not all 4 sides are used at the coliseum all the time. When it does, it can actually hold up to 110k. They sold more seats because they didn't need the entire field for play.

I know right as a die hard Red Sox fan idk how I never heard of this game before haha

I don’t remember this AT ALL

@@troyarrington5492 Mandela effect

@@fredfrederickson As a Red Sox fan there would’ve been no reason for you to know about or remember this in 2022. But, as a fan of the home team who was living in L.A. at the time, of course it was a memorable exhibition game, if only for the reminder of the Campanella game 5 decades before.

@@Fakename70 I’m joking it’s just that I can remember other exhibitions the Red Sox played around this time like when they played in Japan

2008 did not have much HD video