Found! Atlanta’s Air Force Video
Try to take it all in, friends … “Nothing Can Stop Us”.
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Wanted: Atlanta’s Air Force Video [The Basketball Jones]
(I’m crying tears of joy right now. Thank you, Lang. And SLAM! commenter “Ananth Pandian” is right:
“now all we need is to find a box of those tshirts those guys were wearing…cause i want one of those shirts. atlanta air force t shirts….”
Wow, somebody make this happen!)
Comments (5)Wanted: Atlanta’s Air Force Video
Last night, between catching up on Lost Season 2 episodes, I stumbled upon a NBA special featuring highlights and interviews of the three latest Hall of Fame inductees: Charles Barkley, Joe Dumars, and Dominique Wilkins.
During ‘Nique’s awesome highlight reel, they showed a quick clip from a music video the ‘86-87 Atlanta Hawks team made called, Atlanta’s Air Force. Like all professional sport teams’ music videos (see: Bears, Chicago and Flames, Calgary) it looked absolutely brilliant!
So like any good NBA blogger would, I immediately got my ass to YouTube and typed in “Atlanta’s Air Force”. Nothing. What? Travesty! So I decided to do some more research — um, type it into Google. Here’s what I found:
- Local Atlanta band Tom Gross and the Varsity — bitchin’ name boys — put out a 45 rpm record (the video came later) for the Hawks, entitled “Nothing Can Stop Us, We’re Atlanta’s Air Force”. The catchy song was played by several Atlanta radio stations before big games with the Celtics or Pistons, and also during the Hawks’ radio introduction.
- There’s a pin commemorating it.
And that’s it. I couldn’t find the actual music video anywhere. (Single tear.)
So, this is where I turn to you, loyal TBJ reader. If anyone has this music video or knows where one can find it, please, let me know. Hell, I’ll even award a little prize or a free TBJ post to the first person who can help us get the entire “Atlanta’s Air Force” music video up on the Internet, where it so rightfully belongs.
Here are some pics I snapped off the TV for inspiration:
Good luck brethren … and be safe.
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