Dahl, as I remember, had been fired (or quit) at his previous radio station which had switched to an all-disco format about six months before this. So when he landed at a rock ‘n’ roll station he pretended to “blow up” a disco record on the air. One thing led to another and the promotion was a much much bigger deal than anyone realized it was going to be.

The Sox uniforms were designed by Bill Veeck’s wife, supposedly based on the uniforms from the early days of baseball. And the Sox games at the time were actually broadcast on a country music station (yes, on AM … that’s how long ago this was).

Also adding to the bizarre nature of the photo is the pajama top uniform the White Sox are wearing.

Seriously only in the ’70′s could someone have thought that uniform was a good look for a major league team. From a distance it looks like some men’s rec. softball ball team circa 1979.

I remember those “Yankees Suck” tee shirts back in the late 70′s. You’re right Josh those were kind of controversial back then. I grew up a Mets fan but switched to the Pirates from 1979-1983 because the Mets had just become an awful a team to follow everyday and there was no way I was going to root for the Yankees.

Most of my friends switched to from being Mets fans to Yankee fans overnight kind of the same way my entire New Jersey town switched from being a solid Democratic town to a solid Republican town.

In hindsight I don’t really undsterstand the whole “Disco Sucks” and “Disco Demolition” movement. It’s like If you don’t want to listen to disco music just don’t liten, you don’t have to blow the records up. It’s extremely hypocritical when you think that this came from the Rock and Roll people. These people were the same people 10 years before screaming about all the Southerners buring the Beatles records.

Take a step back and try to imagine how it would have been received if a group of black people staged a “Rock and Roll” demolition night and burned a bunch of Kansas, Boston, Styx and Meat Loaf albums.