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Walton's Stanford stories were lots of fun, but he did claim that the bouncy floor had to be replaced because the scoreboard fell during the 1989 Earthquake.

Good times, though if I believe Walton that bouncy floor was destroyed by the Loma Prieta quake.

You're kidding, right?  He really said that?  ???

The floor was replaced in 2004.  I'm looking at a 6" x 6" piece of the old floor right now -- it was given to my Dad [as similar pieces were to many other Buck Club fundraisers] when the renovation occurred -- bearing the legend "Actual Piece of Historic Stanford University Maples Pavilion Floor 1969 - 2004."

If anything, I blame ... Jon Wilner! ... for the loss of the amazing bounce house floor.  Sometime shortly before the decision to replace the floor was announced, he did a series of junk science "epidemiological" stories suggesting that the excessively bouncy floor was contributing to an overabundance of knee injuries at Stanford.  I have to believe that meme became fodder for negative recruiting -- "You don't want to go to Stanford...at least if you want your knees to survive!"

In any event, the center-hung scoreboard was installed as part of the renovation in 2004.  It didn't exist in 1989... except perhaps in Bill Walton's mind.

That being said, I'm waiting for Ernie Kent and Bill Walton to do a game together.  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have a clue what about what would be happening on the floor, but I'm sure the discussion would be...existential!

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Walton's Stanford stories were lots of fun, but he did claim that the bouncy floor had to be replaced because the scoreboard fell during the 1989 Earthquake.

Good times, though if I believe Walton that bouncy floor was destroyed by the Loma Prieta quake.

You're kidding, right?  He really said that?  ???

The floor was replaced in 2004.  I'm looking at a 6" x 6" piece of the old floor right now -- it was given to my Dad [as similar pieces were to many other Buck Club fundraisers] when the renovation occurred -- bearing the legend "Actual Piece of Historic Stanford University Maples Pavilion Floor 1969 - 2004."

If anything, I blame ... Jon Wilner! ... for the loss of the amazing bounce house floor.  Sometime shortly before the decision to replace the floor was announced, he did a series of junk science "epidemiological" stories suggesting that the excessively bouncy floor was contributing to an overabundance of knee injuries at Stanford.  I have to believe that meme became fodder for negative recruiting -- "You don't want to go to Stanford...at least if you want your knees to survive!"

In any event, the center-hung scoreboard was installed as part of the renovation in 2004.  It didn't exist in 1989... except perhaps in Bill Walton's mind.

That being said, I'm waiting for Ernie Kent and Bill Walton to do a game together.  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have a clue what about what would be happening on the floor, but I'm sure the discussion would be...existential!