ESPN SportsCenter, October 18, 1989 - Loma Prieta Earthquake aftermath
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- Lots of folks had VCRs running on the night of the first game of the 1989 World Series. Consequently, we have lots of surviving tape from the immediate aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Here's something different, a complete ESPN SportsCenter from the night after the quake, October 18, 1989. Lots of interviews with players from the A's and Giants, as well as footage from MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent's famous candlelight news conference. It's a slice of history as well as a peek at ESPN in the days before it started dictating league alignments and schedules.
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When Sports center was less high tech and hype but actual sports NEWS.
Ahhh, the Golden Years!
Blame The House of Mouse (Disney).
The SF/Oakland area was soooooo lucky that the world series was happening between Oakland and SF because if the quake happened and both the As and Giants weren't in the world series, more people would be on the Bay Bridge and Cypruss Structure and hence more deaths because folks would not be home for the game like they were.
Imagine that! There actually was a time when a sporting event wasn't considered more important than rescue efforts
It's So Sad That Northern California Declined 1989 Bay Area Quake And 1991 Oakland Fire
The 49'ers ended up playing the Pats at Stanford Stadium. I remember watching that game.
15:03 12 years later Torre and Brenly will manage against each other in the 2001 World Series.
Actually, the death toll turned to be a mere 67, but it was no less tragic.
That's the downside of having to pull the information from a number of different sources when something like this happens. Wires get crossed, people who normally have reliable information don't, and there were undoubtedly duplicates in the list.
This was on my birthday i was 14 at the time all the networks did an incredible job covering the Earthquake plus ESPN is completely different now compare to what it was back then i really miss the sax instrumental from SportsCenter i need to find it.
Today was the *30* year anniversary of when this episode aired on ESPN.
EDIT- 10/19/19 (12:24 A.M.: finishes video 1 hour and 4 minutes later)
They were *way* off on the death toll. Only 63 people died as a result of the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Brett, you hit the proverbial nail on the head.
The cell phone ad was a trip.
The first cell phone I saw was one that my dad borrowed while wating in the parking lot at candlestick - following the earthquake. The same guy who had the cell phone, also had a portable television with rabbit ears tuned to live news footage of the bay bridge collapse - after finally leaving the parking lot that night, we drove across a bridge.to Oakland.
Beastmaster the first cell phones came out in 1973 but they wouldn't become popular until 1996
The San Francisco cop RIGHTLY telling people to make the most of the remaining daylight would be criticized today for being “insensitive”!!! Grrrrrrrrrr!!!! 😡😡😡
Fay Vincent gets a lot of criticism for his time as commissioner, but he seemed to handle all of this very well.
1989 was the last year for Typewriters
I'm actually not a sports enthusiast, so I don't stay up on what's going on. However I just learned that Candlestick Park was completely demolished a few years ago. I'm really shocked by that because it did in fact survive the quake of 89 quite well.
Really great reporting by ESPN. We've really lowered our journalism standards 33 years later...
16:33 that hat is DEFINITELY from 1989 lol.....i wish i was an adult back then, and lived through those times....i was only 3
dare I say this was pretty good journalism......what happened...?
Big corporations taking over everything.
A segment without Lebron/Mahomes/BLM oh to go back to the 80s-90s
They moved the game to Palo Alto for that Sunday game between the 49ers and the Patriots! 49ers blew out the Pats if I remember correctly.
+John Nguyen Just looked it up.... it was a good game.... 49ers 37 Patriots 20. Both Joe Montana and Steve Young played at Qb for the 49ers. Neither of them could be stopped.
And Jeff Fueller suffered a career ending neck injury.
@@ProfessorBMedia Who's Jeff Fueller? 🤔
AND THE PARTIOTS SUCKED ASS!!!!
@@thema1998 HE WAS ONE OF THE 49ERS LINEBACKERS
At 4:31 I see a microphone 🎤 from our local CBS channel KJEO channel 47 here in Fresno California
I lived in nearby Hanford at the time. Remember KJEO 47. News anchorman John Wallace.
@@tommyparkerparker so do i on abc30
when did espn broadcast in stereo?
Justin Fencsak 1990
Every single word that comes out of Chris Berman’s mouth in this segment is just him talking and speculating and guessing, but not providing anything even close to definitive.
That’s because that’s all that was available that they could factually report on, then base opinions on the future from those conversations and known facts.
They should’ve named this special EpiCenter. Sorry.
So where did they end up playing?
Mark Pontius No the game was rescheduled.
South Philly Mafia Tours it’s been 30 years and they still are yet to play
@@sml2k186 LMAO! Thats ok, nobody likes those teams anyway!
Almost 3 decades before ESPN turned into a "social justice" political network.
I don't think they knew the meaning of "confirmed". Where did they get 272 deaths from.
Sorry this is so late, but it's pretty clear that you don't understand what happens when there's a disaster or other big news story:
Normally reliable and authoritative sources of information get stuff wrong right at the outset and there simply isn't time to confirm with a couple of independent sources.
Also, it's really easy to get duplicates from different sources: The PD reports 50 dead, the FD reports 50 dead, but 25 people are in both groups. Unless and until you have time to cross-reference everybody on every list, it's possible to have duplicates that you can't catch.
almostfm and of course this leads to people with very poor critical thinking skills making all sorts of weird connections and spotting patterns that don’t exist. Human brains are awful.
Think they just estimated because of the number of cars crushed when 880 collapsed (think something like 200 cars were crushed so someone just pulled a number out of the air and it snowballed).
First reports are often waaaaay wrong n incidents like this, war, etc…
Were the players staying at that ratty travelodge near SFO?
8:05 what if it was a woman, or a kid sitting in that seat? lol “i wanna meet that guy, the ground split right under him”
30:01 26:20
Ladies Pro Bowlers tour? Thank God these days for ESPN 9!
Lmao! I know right!
@Montana Roots Oh please,,,
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