Tuesday, December 29, 2009
A Holiday Highlight: Blazer Chanukah Night 12.15.09
It was not an ordinary evening on the concourse in mid-December. We decided to go to a Trailblazer game when my brother was in town. There was festive music and kosher food and T-shirts that had Trailblazers written in Hebrew that I wish I had been able to snag a T-shirt who would have dug it for both the medium and the message.
In keeping with the theme of the evening, I took this picture of my bro in front of the Blazer's first owner, Harry Glickman. We were at the first Blazer home game back in 1970 I remember they played Cleveland and that Glickman gave the opening ball to his son, Marshall to throw out. I remember disliking Marshall, who was roughly the same age as my brother and I. Ol' Marsh got into quite a mess with PGE park many years later and is now apparently trying to do sports development stuff in Bend.
Harry Glickman was actually on hand that night to light the menorah while local Rabbis and others danced to dreidle song. Earlier a couple of Rabbis played a variation of around the world during one of the breaks. All of the ornamentation, loud noise, entertainments on the jumbo screen can get to be a bit much at a live sporting event, but this was pretty cool. Maybe my next Blazer game will be next year's Chanukah night. And if so, I will sign up for a t-shirt. Or two.
posted by well-executed buffet at 8:15 PM
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Howard,
Just came across your blog. I was one of the organizers of the event. Contact me and I will get you a hebrew blazer cap. jli@chabadoregon.com or mottiwilhelm@gmail.com
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Just came across your blog. I was one of the organizers of the event. Contact me and I will get you a hebrew blazer cap. jli@chabadoregon.com or mottiwilhelm@gmail.com
