"Fans only meeting"

[Huber.]

Any legs to this?

 

[TheAdmin]

Might be pushed off till the draft but yes.

 

[CornerThree]

What about trying to do something Q adjacent on a game day. Maybe even a weekend game. Might be able to get some easy press especially if this keeps going off the rails. 2/23 and 2/28 look like game days with easy to obtain tix.

Or even do it in march so you could picket outside the Q. (Or celebrate our magical push to the playoffs).

Maybe sell a RCF nametag for like $5 to guage attendance. Generally people need to have some skin in the game to assure they will show.

 

[AllforOne]

Personally, I like the Richfield idea. Havent made that roundabout coming off 271 to 303 in like 20 years. (8 year old me would hold my breath everytime we completed the ramp and the lights from thwt gym were in front of me) Used to make that drive every game night with my dad right around the time they got divorced and all we had were our season ticket outings 90-91 season.

More weekends than not, I drive to the CVNP. From where I live, it's a straight shot across 303.

If you've never driven this stretch of 303, it's a two-lane country road. You drive through several smaller towns to get there. You pass by farms, roadside fruit stands, and the occasional mansion (more accurately, the occasional gate and driveway that leads back to what I can only assume is a mansion).

And then the road widens to five lanes, right where it intersects with I-271. As you continue east and head down a hill into the Cuyahoga Valley, it narrows to two lanes again, just as quickly as it expanded. You can drive the entire section in maybe a minute.

These days, there's no apparent reason for the widening. Heading east on 303, you look to your left, and there's just a large field. A field overgrown with grass. A field that is being restored to wilderness. A field that gives no clues that it was once a place where 20,000 people would gather. Sometimes for concerts, sometimes for hockey ... and sometimes for basketball.

I drive by that field, and I still picture it standing. That big white building with the vertical columns. More than the building itself, I see all the memories that took place there. The Miracle of Richfield (duh). The 1992 Eastern Conference semi-finals, when the Cavs clobbered the Celtics in Game Seven. Game Five of the 1989 playoffs, when Craig Ehlo's layup gave the Cavs a lead with three seconds left, setting up MJ's heroics.

I see Mark Price dribbling at breakneck speed, then pulling up on a dime and draining a three-pointer. I see Brad Daugherty rumbling to the hoop for yet another two points. I see Larry Nance, probably the most graceful athlete ever to wear "Cavs" on his chest, soaring above the crowd for rebounds. I see many, many nights spent in the stands, cheering for another victory. Too young to care about playing Richfield Roulette (because of the awful post-game traffic jams, many fans would want to leave early to beat the crowd, but would have to balance leaving early with the chance of missing a comeback win). Too passionate about the team to leave early anyway.

I'm rambling here, and I have no great point to make. It's not like those memories have to be kept alive for future generations. Life is for the living, and every place on earth has a long history, most of which we weren't around for. I guess Rchfld's words just made me remember that there once stood this place called the Coliseum, and reminded me of all the great memories that were made there. And I'm guessing plenty of others here have their own memories from that patch of wilderness.

As for the gathering: if you want to keep it in the Richfield area, think about having it at the Winking Lizard in Peninsula (about five minutes east of the old Coliseum site on 303). It's not the biggest place around, and I'm not sure they'd be large enough to handle a group this size. But it's worth a phone call to check.

 

[ClevelandOwnz]

Kegs and Eggs?