Quote:
Originally Posted by tovangar2
• Video Link
(for a history of the logo intro, see here)
___________________________________________________________________
|
In 1998 Fox Entertainment Group purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers and owned the team for about six years.
In that first year, I was at what was probably the first afternoon game of the season when, as usual, the
announcer proclaimed "Your Los Angeles Dodgers!" As the team took the field and ran to their positions the
stadium shook with the the 20th Century Fox Fanfare emanating from the speakers.
The new owners found immediately this did not go over well with the fans or sports writers. It was thought
to be rude and out of place and highly corporate. After all, the storied Dodgers organization, with its eye
always on tradition and a sense of history, had been owned by the O'Malley family for such a long time.
I, on the other hand, was amused and loved it. Maybe not the Fox fanfare, but it seemed fitting to have a
team fanfare accompaniment as the players ran out onto the field. (I think the Fox fanfare is the best, by
the way!)
I'm pretty sure that was the one and only time that was ever done.
Fox continued to endear themselves to the Dodger fans by almost immediately trading our franchise player,
Mike Piazza, and, later in the year, trying to introduce a Dodger "mascot" which was immediately booed with
each and every appearance and also vanished after one game.