This Date in Sidekicks History June 9

Birthdays

• 1977: Fabinho

Always Remember the First Time

• 1987: The Sidekicks played a Championship Series game for the first time on this date.

Sidekicks Fold

• 1986: Sidekicks General Manager Ron Adkins announced that an agreement that had been made in principle on June 6 for Don Carter to sell the team to a group lead by Jim Graham had fallen through. He also announced that negotiations to purchase the team had ended, the club would fold, and that he would "carry out Mr. Carter's instructions regarding the sale of the club's assets."
  • Neither side would comment on the reasons the deal failed.
  • The Sidekicks would be back in business the following day with Graham's group.
  • Click here to read the article from the Dallas Morning News.

Sidekicks Live

• 1990: Bankruptcy Judge Robert McGuire conditionally approved the Sidekicks Chapter 11 reorginzation plan on this date. <click here for the Dallas Morning News Article>

One and Future Opponents

• 2003: The new-MISL announced that the St. Louis Steamers franchise had been reinstated and would begin play during the 2003-04 season.

They Said It

• 1986:

  The only area we did not have problems was in the location of the team. It was the only area we agreed upon 100 percent.

  --Ron Adkins's only comment on the reasons the deal was not completed.

   

  I'm really disappointed. Unfortunately, it looks bad for the city. I don't think money was the problem. Everybody asked what the problem was but the answer was the sale did not go through. They did not give us the reason.

  --Tatu

   

  I will go through the rest of my life wondering. There's a little bit of anger on the staff because they've seen the signs in camp sign-ups, season tickets sales and they're angry it won't go on.

  --Sidekicks coach Gordon Jago.

   

  I found (Dallas) new and exciting, I thought I might be around a while.

  --Doc Lawson on his thoughts of setlling down in Dallas, which he eventually would.

   

  I thought I was coming to a wedding... (not) a funeral.

  --Mike Uremovich, on his thoughts of wearing a tuxedo to the team meeting called for today. He expected to be introduced to the club's new owners.
  

  For the soccer player, there is always Somewhere Else.

  --the closing line of Morning News Columnist David Casstevens' eulogy for the Sidekicks, written his column on June 11, 1986.

MISL Championship Series Games

• 1987: Game 1: at Tacoma Stars 10 Sidekicks 4
  • Tacoma leads the Best of Seven series 1 game to 0