The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]
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The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]
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#2There was no circumstance in which this could have gone "right".
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#3"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0742671/quotes
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#4Not sure I'd want to fly a helicopter near that.
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#5yes! Big Chuck and Little John:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chuck_and_Lil%27_John
I grew up in Akron in the 80s and loved watching them
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#6> most of the balloons ended up in Canada
in these tense times, Prime Minister Trudeau should look back with an open heart to the days when a great American city gave the Canadian people thousands of free children's toys.
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#7Funny to see this on here. I believe Clemson and UGA actually started this trend.
In 1983 Clemson announced it was going to set the record with a release of 250,000 balloons. Georgia, being competitive announced that the next week it would release 300,000.
Both releases happened and after Georgia's attempt to steal the record, Clemson released official numbers that were about 360,000, allowing them to hold the balloon release record and making UGA's attempt to 1-up the release a wasted effort. Clemson and UGA was a big football rivalry at this point with both schools having won titles in 1981 and 1980 respectively, while being located only 90 miles apart.
Shortly afterward, Disney decided to take the record with a launch of 1 million balloons which I believe preceded this Cleveland event.
EDIT: Yep, Disney in 1985 release 1 million.
https://www.ocregister.com/2015/12/02/mr-anaheim-remembering...
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#8>"No one is quite sure where they went, but at least they are no longer posing a threat to fish and wildlife and they are not littering the lake"
Victory for Cleveland!
Re: The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]
#9Funny to see this on here. I believe Clemson and UGA actually started this trend. In 1983 Clemson announced it was going to set the record with a release of 250,000 balloons. Georgia, being competitive announced that the next week it would release 300,000. Both releases happened and after Georgia's attempt to steal the record, Clemson released official numbers that were about 360,000, allowing them to hold the balloo…
I was at that Clemson game. It was unreal.
Re: The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]
#10More information is in this article from the 25th anniversary of the Balloonfest:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/twenty-five_years_ag...