Jim Rome Tour Stops From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Jim Rome's Tour Stops (also referred to as The Jim Rome World Tour) was a series of limited access live shows, often held in arenas, or other outdoor venues, which features sports-related guests and activities. The tour originated from The Jim Rome Show radio program, which is featured on over 200 affiliate radio stations in the United States and Canada. Generally, Rome would hold a few Tour Stops each year, with a very irregular schedule. They were quietly and informally discontinued after the Tour Stop at Cleveland in 2004. Rome has cited a more demanding television and radio schedule for the discontinuation of tour stops, most notably because of the inception of Jim Rome is Burning on ESPN. Show listeners, referred to as the "Clones," consider the Tour Stops a way of celebrating the popularity of the show, and a means of meeting other fans of the program. Since 2000 Rome has promised to hold a Tour Stop in the city whose NFL team finished the season 0-16, his so called "dream season." The Detroit Lions finally accomplished the feat in 2008, making it likely that Detroit will host a Tour Stop sometime in 2009. Contents [hide] 1 Tour Stop activities 2 Awarding Tour Stops 3 Notable moments 4 Tour Stop location history 5 See also 6 References 7 External links [edit] Tour Stop activities Tickets to a Tour Stop are normally free, but must be acquired from the local affiliate. Some Tour Stops have reportedly had over 10,000 in attendance. http://www.hoops227.atomicshops.com/youtube_jim_rome_sports_radio_talk_show_guest_live.html  One of the Tour Stops' main attractions is sports figures from local teams. Tour Stops are treated like actual sporting events, with fans tailgating beforehand, and mingling with friends. Rock music and a lot of classic "smack-talk" are the flavor of the day. Tour Stops are not broadcast on the radio, but Rome typically plays clips from the activities and guests on the next regular program. [edit] Awarding Tour Stops Rome typically awards Tour Stops to cities whose affiliate radio stations are especially loyal and supportive. Listeners in each affiliate city are urged to "bang their monkey" (i.e., actively request or petition their affiliate's program director) to get a Tour Stop. Many Clones are known to travel to a Tour Stop from across the country instead of waiting for one in their town. A running joke with the show is that Clones in Rochester (one of Rome's original four affiliate cities) have begged for a Tour Stop since the show's beginning. Although Rome says that someday "Crapchester" may get a Tour Stop, he usually teases the city by saying they have won a Tour Stop - only to take it back and give it to another city. [edit] Notable moments This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2008) The San Diego Tour Stop in 1996 is remembered quite fondly by Rome and his early legion of Clones. It was the first Tour Stop to take place in a stadium (the outfield pavilion of Jack Murphy Stadium), thus becoming the largest Tour Stop, with almost 4,000 people (since broken). The Tour Stop was also noteworthy as it took place mere hours before a Padres-Rockies game, thus allowing Rome to have many Padres as his guests including Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminiti, Bruce Bochy and Scott Sanders. Perhaps most famously, this was the scene of the infamous "Marvin Freeman Soundbite." Early in the show there were no players from either team on the field. Rome's audience was mainly Padre fans and LA Dodger fans, who, when not listening to the show, stayed busy by hurling the usual taunts at each other. Then the first Rockies player, a pitcher, trotted onto the field, with a Rockies coach. As soon as the audience, with all the Padre and Dodger fans shouting each other down, saw the first Rockie take to the field, they stopped their infighting and started chanting "CHEATER, CHEATER" referring to the Rockies home park advantage and alleged juiced stats. As the Tour Stop was taking place close to the visiting bullpen, a few Rockies pitchers decided to have a little fun by throwing baseballs at the crowd, and Rome in particular. Rome invited one of the culprits, pitcher Marvin Freeman, up onto the stage. Upon getting to the interview area, Freeman screamed "WAHHH" into the microphone, making a baby sound, and simply left without conducting the interview. Rome points to this as the most extreme case of "Jungle Karma," as Freeman was blasted by the Padres on national TV a few days later, released by the Rockies soon after, and was out of baseball by 1997. Previously, Freeman had been the ace of the Rockies pitching staff from 1994 to early 1996. Like many of the early Tour Stops, the show was broadcast live on The Jim Rome Show. This was discontinued after a "mini-riot" broke out at a Tour Stop in Universal City, Calif. Rome vowed never to do another Tour Stop in Southern California because of this incident. After the 2000 tour stop in Oakland, California produced disappointing attendance, Rome pledged never to return to Northern California. Local sponsor KNBR announced that the show was sold out creating confusion.[1] During the 2003 Detroit Tour Stop, which was held at the Palace of Auburn Hills, then-Michigan State head football coach John L. Smith addressed the crowd and took a jab at the Michigan fans, since Michigan's coach Lloyd Carr was not present at the tour stop: "How many of you are Michigan fans? Where's your coach!?" In 2000, when the Chargers started the season 0-12, Rome started a rant about how someday, an NFL team will finally go 0-16, dubbed his "dream season." Rome promised that if an NFL team manages to go winless, something not done since the Buccaneers in 1976, and something never done since adopting a 16-game season, that city will be awarded a Tour Stop. Since 2000, the 2001 Lions, 2002 Bengals, 2004 49ers, 2005 Texans and 2007 Dolphins all have "tried but failed" to achieve this "dream season," much to Rome's dismay (The 2007 Dolphins came the closest of those that failed to accomplish the feat, winning their only game with two weeks remaining). Rome's dream season finally happened in 2008 when the Detroit Lions finished the NFL season 0-16 on December 28. Since Rome was on his usual holiday vacation break from the show he has yet to comment on whether indeed he will live up to his promise and grant Detroit a Tour Stop. In September 2007, Rome mentioned that Notre Dame could receive a Tour Stop if they finish the 2007 season 0-12, which they failed to do. [edit] Tour Stop location history This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. No. Date Location Local Affiliate 1 Omaha KXSP 2 Portland KXTG 3 Anaheim 4 July 18, 1996 Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego 5 January 11, 1997 Stadium View Sports Bar, Green Bay 6 1997 Des Moines KXNO 7 1997 Denver 8 1997 Salt Lake City 9 September 12, 1997 SRO Sports Bar, Houston 10 1997 Anaheim 11 1997 San Antonio 12 1997 Jacksonville 13 Los Angeles 14 Universal City 15 October 24, 1998 Sam Houston Race Park, Houston 16 1998 Phoenix 17 January 23, 1999 CSU Convocation Center, Cleveland 18 August 28, 1999 Air National Guard Base, Portland 19 January 22, 2000 Ice Palace, Tampa 20 February 19, 2000 ARCO Arena, Sacramento KHTK 21 June 10, 2000 Blossom Music Center, Cleveland 22 September 16, 2000 Enron Field, Houston 23 November, 2000 Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland KNBR 24 March 3, 2001 Phoenix 25 July 28, 2001 Dunn Tire Park, Buffalo 26 June 8, 2002 Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City 27 July 20, 2002 Pepsi Center, Denver 28 September 21, 2002 ARCO Arena, Sacramento KHTK 29 December 7, 2002 Alliant Energy Center, Madison 30 May 10, 2003 Cintas Center, Cincinnati 31 July 26, 2003 The Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit WDFN 32 September 6, 2003 Dell Diamond, Austin (Round Rock) 33 May 15, 2004 Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque KNML 34 October 12, 2004 CSU Convocation Center, Cleveland WBTC [edit] See also The Jim Rome Show Jim Rome Smack-Off [edit] References This article includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate. (January 2008) ^ "ROME MIFFED ABOUT NON-SELLOUT IN OAKLAND FOR HIS RADIO APPEARANCE". Contra Costa Times. November 10, 2000. pp. C3. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CC&s_site=contracostatimes&p_multi=CC&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1064A426CB6D6DEB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. [edit] External links Jim Rome official website Unofficial website Stucknut.com, Unofficial fan forum The Jungle Comes to Madison: Anatomy of a Jim Rome Tour Stop unofficial site with pictures from the Madison tour stop and multi-chapter monograph about the Madison tour stop and Jim Rome in general. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rome_Tour_Stops" Categories: Concert tours