Long Beach is in an entirely different COUNTY than Anaheim. I worked in the shuttle industry for twenty years and if that guy was working for us, he wouldn't be the next day! We'd probably be asking for a DUI test and maybe a mental acuity exam! This is the equivalent of instead of driving a team from the usual Packers' opponent hotel in Appleton to Lambeau, the driver somehow ended up in Fond du Lac, which is just...I still can't believe, LONG BEACH?! 😂
Speaking of weird bus detours.... I remember reading in SI in the late 80s/early 90s about the coach of the Phoenix Cardinals taking the team on game day side tours through Philly and NY because he wanted them to feel like they were a true NFC East team. Gotta love the post merger NFL geography.
Another one of those crazy stories that you would never have heard about unless you lived in Atlanta or maybe had a newspaper that liked quirky stories like this. Thank you for digging this up and telling us this story. WOW!
Yeah, thing is, with those long ass boulevards in LA, he could have turned left on Katella and gone straight and still ended up in Long Beach never having gotten off that road
All the bus driver needed to see is the Big A sign approaching Anahein Stadium. Fully enclosed Anaheim Stadium destroyed the view of the outfield and moved the big A sign. That's the stadium where Dave Henderson crushed Angels hearts back in 1986, homering off Donnie Moore 1 strike away from Gene Mauch finally making to the world series.
This is very similar to what happened 6 years later with Leeds United in Turkey prior to their first leg semifinal match in the UEFA Cup vs Galatasaray. Like with the Falcons, Leeds were only staying 10 minutes away from the Ali Sami Yen Stadium (Galatasaray's stadium at the time) & in theory the driver should have easily driven them to the stadium. However the driver ended up driving Leeds United into the middle of Istanbul which is a full hour away from Ali Sami Yen. To make this even more crazy, the driver did not do this by accident as it was later revealed that he was a hardcore Galatasaray fan (heck he even had a Galatasaray scarf on the dashboard) & did this in order to completely ruin Leeds United preparation for the match. The detour & the reroute had an effect on Leeds as they lost the first leg 2-0 & lost the tie 4-2 on aggregate. This incident is largely forgotten about due to another more tragic incident from this match where two Leeds fans were stabbed to death by Galatasaray fans prior to kickoff.
As someone from OC, ending up in Long Beach is wild considering Angel Stadium is pretty easy to remember from that location (down Katella towards the 55)
Dang Anaheim Stadium has had some great players call that Stadium home. Eric Dickinson The Bus Jerome Bettis (no pun intended) Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, and the list goes on
Okay-that happened a few years before the falcons made it to their first Super Bowl and 1994was the rams 🐏 last season in Los Angeles before moving to saint Louis! 😮😮😮😮
While that game was going on, up north in San Francisco the 49ers got destroyed by the Eagles 40-8. Two weeks later, the 49ers and Falcons met in Atlanta for the lead in the NFC West, and the 49ers won 42-3. At the press conference after the game, Deion Sanders referred to the Georgia Dome as "my house," even though he was playing for the 49ers that season. After that loss to the Eagles, the 49ers only lost one game the rest of the season, the regular season finale against the Vikings, which the Niners already had the top seed locked up and the Vikings needing a win to clinch a division title, and went on to beat the Chargers in the Super Bowl, the last time the 49ers won the Super Bowl.
@matthewdaley746 Between 1995 and 1998 the Packers and 49ers met four straight years in the playoffs, and after losing the first three, the 49ers needed a miracle to win in the fourth meeting.
The Angels and their fans hated that setup. The renovation that wrapped up in the late '90s was badly needed. What I find hilarious is that the Rams moved to the O.C. due to the lack of sellouts at the then-cavernous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and even in the Big A, they still couldn't sell their home games out unless they hosted either the Raiders or the 49ers (both home games there vs. the then-San Diego Chargers were blacked out).
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but I know that visiting teams in Green Bay have a police escort from from the airport to the hotel when they get here, then a police escort from the hotel to Lambeau Field. So if a bus driver decides to do something like this in Green Bay now, let's just say it won't happen.
If you’re driving the visiting team’s bus to Lambeau field and you don’t see Packers fans mooning you, you’re going the wrong way. Just ask Randy Moss. 😏
Not only did that driver wind up in a different city, he also ended up in an entirely different county! That takes some doing. That wasn't just a wrong turn or missing an exit. I've done both of those things in my neck of the woods. I'm not sure how that driver wasn't reprimanded.
@@agrofindastation I've never been that far west, but I've BEEN known that Long Beach and Anaheim are in different counties and separate from Los Angeles itself.
@@marcus813 pull up Google maps (or Apple maps) and check out the craziness that is the Smell-A basin. City and county mean nothing when it is concrete from Irvine all the way to Santa Clarita.
@marcus813 you need to pull up Google maps (or apple) and see what a concrete mess the Los Angeles basin is. From Irvine to Santa Clarita, it's all built up. City and county lines mean almost nothing there.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about a self-inflicted travel fiasco involving the Falcons before Super Bowl 33.
No, either Daffy Duck or Wyle E. Coyote - SUPER GENIUS. Let me get out my Acme roadmap. Wait, was that a roadrunner? Meep, meep. Oh we're on. Slight change of plans folks.
THE LOS ANGELES RAMS SAID THEY LOVED PLAYING IN ANAHEIM BECAUSE WHEN THE LOS ANGELES RAMS PLAYED IN ANAHEIM STADIUM IN ANAHEIM THERE WERE NO BLACKOUT GAMES!
Yep. The tour that was shown in the video was done with no construction, and doesn't take into account this little area called Disneyland, which is around the same area. Either an event at Disneyland the same day of the game, resulting in roads needing to be blocked, or construction both could've easily resulted in an detour that took an alternate, longer route, combined with the game day traffic, I could easily see the driver being confused. BTW, looking at a map of the region, there's a route where turning one direction takes you to the stadium, another one that takes you onto I-5.
You popped me with that comparison. I would wonder why my driver was so drunk or otherwise impaired as to take me all the way to Annapolis when I wanted to go to the Ravens game. I would probably have the person pull over and let me out and get another Uber to get to the stadium probably as soon as I noticed we were in Anne Arundel County.
As JagG has less than 400 people viewing this video/week and even less likes, he would have been financially better if he would have posted a picture of Elton John and played the 1994 song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight” than cover this football game.
Long Beach is in an entirely different COUNTY than Anaheim. I worked in the shuttle industry for twenty years and if that guy was working for us, he wouldn't be the next day! We'd probably be asking for a DUI test and maybe a mental acuity exam!
This is the equivalent of instead of driving a team from the usual Packers' opponent hotel in Appleton to Lambeau, the driver somehow ended up in Fond du Lac, which is just...I still can't believe, LONG BEACH?! 😂
"A three hour tour…" 🤣
I saw a sign at Anaheim around this Era that said, "Go Rams... and take the Angels with you!"
Speaking of weird bus detours.... I remember reading in SI in the late 80s/early 90s about the coach of the Phoenix Cardinals taking the team on game day side tours through Philly and NY because he wanted them to feel like they were a true NFC East team. Gotta love the post merger NFL geography.
Another one of those crazy stories that you would never have heard about unless you lived in Atlanta or maybe had a newspaper that liked quirky stories like this. Thank you for digging this up and telling us this story. WOW!
That was definitely a new employee driving who was a Rams fan born and raised in LA!
BRAVES 8
ANGELS 5
@@MB26535 Lol. Shootout at the LA Sports Arena LOL
Yeah, thing is, with those long ass boulevards in LA, he could have turned left on Katella and gone straight and still ended up in Long Beach never having gotten off that road
Even without the bus you could go from Hyatt to Anaheim under 30 minutes. I do that few time when I go to see the Angels
All the bus driver needed to see is the Big A sign approaching Anahein Stadium.
Fully enclosed Anaheim Stadium destroyed the view of the outfield and moved the big A sign. That's the stadium where Dave Henderson crushed Angels hearts back in 1986, homering off Donnie Moore 1 strike away from Gene Mauch finally making to the world series.
This is kinda funny because "The Magic School Bus" premiered in the same year.
@@matthewdaley746hey Ms. Frizzle is my childhood though don’t rip on that role that’s an iconic role for her
This is very similar to what happened 6 years later with Leeds United in Turkey prior to their first leg semifinal match in the UEFA Cup vs Galatasaray. Like with the Falcons, Leeds were only staying 10 minutes away from the Ali Sami Yen Stadium (Galatasaray's stadium at the time) & in theory the driver should have easily driven them to the stadium. However the driver ended up driving Leeds United into the middle of Istanbul which is a full hour away from Ali Sami Yen. To make this even more crazy, the driver did not do this by accident as it was later revealed that he was a hardcore Galatasaray fan (heck he even had a Galatasaray scarf on the dashboard) & did this in order to completely ruin Leeds United preparation for the match. The detour & the reroute had an effect on Leeds as they lost the first leg 2-0 & lost the tie 4-2 on aggregate. This incident is largely forgotten about due to another more tragic incident from this match where two Leeds fans were stabbed to death by Galatasaray fans prior to kickoff.
You should have your own channel!
As someone from OC, ending up in Long Beach is wild considering Angel Stadium is pretty easy to remember from that location (down Katella towards the 55)
Yep it's right off the 405. I think they thought they where going to Dodger Stadium. 😅
Hyatt and Anaheim Stadium are practically side by side. I work in Anaheim and I recognize the area
Dang Anaheim Stadium has had some great players call that Stadium home. Eric Dickinson The Bus Jerome Bettis (no pun intended) Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, and the list goes on
Not only this, but the other Rams/Falcons game in 1980 seriously needs a Dumb Decisions episode for Ray Malovasi
I already got you covered there: th-cam.com/video/WVw99bvuE50/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kqe-eYjB_YCVg8Rd
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 The thing is, the yardage meant nothing. Mazzetti would have easily hit the FG even if Bartkowski missed the pass
Okay-that happened a few years before the falcons made it to their first Super Bowl and 1994was the rams 🐏 last season in Los Angeles before moving to saint Louis! 😮😮😮😮
While that game was going on, up north in San Francisco the 49ers got destroyed by the Eagles 40-8. Two weeks later, the 49ers and Falcons met in Atlanta for the lead in the NFC West, and the 49ers won 42-3. At the press conference after the game, Deion Sanders referred to the Georgia Dome as "my house," even though he was playing for the 49ers that season. After that loss to the Eagles, the 49ers only lost one game the rest of the season, the regular season finale against the Vikings, which the Niners already had the top seed locked up and the Vikings needing a win to clinch a division title, and went on to beat the Chargers in the Super Bowl, the last time the 49ers won the Super Bowl.
I remember watching that Eagles/49ers game. Steve Young was hot with his coaches late in that affair!
@matthewdaley746 Between 1995 and 1998 the Packers and 49ers met four straight years in the playoffs, and after losing the first three, the 49ers needed a miracle to win in the fourth meeting.
Anaheim Stadium fully enclosed for the Rams looked weird, moreso for the Angels.
Chuck Knox II era for the Rams wad a Dumb Decision coaching hire
Yep, 15-33 during his 2nd Tenure.
The Angels and their fans hated that setup. The renovation that wrapped up in the late '90s was badly needed. What I find hilarious is that the Rams moved to the O.C. due to the lack of sellouts at the then-cavernous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and even in the Big A, they still couldn't sell their home games out unless they hosted either the Raiders or the 49ers (both home games there vs. the then-San Diego Chargers were blacked out).
The Falcons did not return to LA against the Rams until December 11 2016. As the Falcons did win that game and it was played @ LA Memorial Colosseum
Love this channel, commentator rocks!
After the Rams moved to St. Louis, the bus driver moved to Springfield and drove the school bus for the town’s elementary school.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but I know that visiting teams in Green Bay have a police escort from from the airport to the hotel when they get here, then a police escort from the hotel to Lambeau Field. So if a bus driver decides to do something like this in Green Bay now, let's just say it won't happen.
If you’re driving the visiting team’s bus to Lambeau field and you don’t see Packers fans mooning you, you’re going the wrong way. Just ask Randy Moss. 😏
@@dmgreenbergThat was a one time thing that us cheeseheads couldn't get away with these days, because remember, police escort.
Liquor run
There was a liquor store across Hyatt LOL
4:18 Chris Chandler being injured...just your normal day for the Mr. Glass of quarterbacks 🤕
Ill get the ball rolling
I never understood that back in the day that the Atlanta Falcons played in the NFC WEST!
Also, the Braves played in the NL West … and that’s how the 103-win San Francisco Giants missed the 1993 postseason.
@dmgreenberg that's right I had forgot about that. Good call @
And as late as the 1969-70 season the Atlanta Hawks were in the Western Conference.
I prefer a Crazy Game of Poker.. (O.A.R. fans know.)
Not only did that driver wind up in a different city, he also ended up in an entirely different county! That takes some doing. That wasn't just a wrong turn or missing an exit. I've done both of those things in my neck of the woods. I'm not sure how that driver wasn't reprimanded.
You aren't from Orange County, California. Are you? "Different Cities" in LA doesn't mean the same as other parts of the country.
@matthewdaley746 very true. California is a weird animal, but most people run with the stereotypes only.
@@agrofindastation I've never been that far west, but I've BEEN known that Long Beach and Anaheim are in different counties and separate from Los Angeles itself.
@@marcus813 pull up Google maps (or Apple maps) and check out the craziness that is the Smell-A basin. City and county mean nothing when it is concrete from Irvine all the way to Santa Clarita.
@marcus813 you need to pull up Google maps (or apple) and see what a concrete mess the Los Angeles basin is. From Irvine to Santa Clarita, it's all built up. City and county lines mean almost nothing there.
The bus drivers must have had a better union than the NFL players.
Scoragami. You'll need to link to Secret Base for that. I think you haven't used that phrase since last year at least.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about a self-inflicted travel fiasco involving the Falcons before Super Bowl 33.
As someone who uses mass transit and lives in So Cal I am not shocked. The bus system is bad but it was even way worse in the 90s/
The bus driver's rating was lower than if he had spiked the ball in to the ground on every play.
After finding this out, it’s no wonder this game ended in an 8-5 score
That sounds like the plot for a "Hangover" movie. Did the driver, by any chance, look anything like Zach Galifianakis?
I like how your voice goes up three octaves when you're outraged.
Road trip...
You can't spend your whole life worrying about your past mistakes. You fucked up, you trusted me.
Bus driver must have been a Rams fan😂
26 miles is about halfway from Atlanta to Athens.
Was the bus driver named Bugs Bunny????
No, either Daffy Duck or Wyle E. Coyote - SUPER GENIUS. Let me get out my Acme roadmap.
Wait, was that a roadrunner? Meep, meep. Oh we're on. Slight change of plans folks.
“I knew I should’ve made that left turn at Albuquerque!”
Was the bus driver Pascual Perez, because he knew a thing or two about getting lost en route to a game!
THE LOS ANGELES RAMS SAID THEY LOVED PLAYING IN ANAHEIM BECAUSE WHEN THE LOS ANGELES RAMS PLAYED IN ANAHEIM STADIUM IN ANAHEIM THERE WERE NO BLACKOUT GAMES!
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I am glad the bus driver was not punished. They just made a dumb mistake. Human beings make them every day.
I’m also wondering about the 20 something people on the bus who have played in that city before and didn’t say something
Sadly there was no need for the infield dirt to be left on the field this day. The 1994 MLB players strike ended the season in July of that year.
*August
6:45 we have a swear!
Please let this be a normal field trip….
With the Falcons? NO WAY!
Yeah, great approach. Let's fire somebody when u don't know the full background story. I know why u are going to be a lawyer!
Yep.
The tour that was shown in the video was done with no construction, and doesn't take into account this little area called Disneyland, which is around the same area.
Either an event at Disneyland the same day of the game, resulting in roads needing to be blocked, or construction both could've easily resulted in an detour that took an alternate, longer route, combined with the game day traffic, I could easily see the driver being confused.
BTW, looking at a map of the region, there's a route where turning one direction takes you to the stadium, another one that takes you onto I-5.
You popped me with that comparison. I would wonder why my driver was so drunk or otherwise impaired as to take me all the way to Annapolis when I wanted to go to the Ravens game. I would probably have the person pull over and let me out and get another Uber to get to the stadium probably as soon as I noticed we were in Anne Arundel County.
I don't think you can be arrested for something like that, but idk how he kept his job
As JagG has less than 400 people viewing this video/week and even less likes, he would have been financially better if he would have posted a picture of Elton John and played the 1994 song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight” than cover this football game.
I bet that game was blacked out.
The 1994 season.
Don't the teams get a police escort?