Restoring the Roar

Globally, 1984 is probably best known as the title of George Orwell’s classic novel. But the year has a different significance in everyone’s heart. For the history buff it was the year Reagan won the presidential election by a landslide over Walter Mondale. In 1984 the music lover saw Bruce Springsteen release Born in the USA, Prince release Purple Rain, and Michael Jackson win 8 Grammys. For the weird-useless-trivial knowledge guru, 1984 was the year John DeLorean was acquitted of cocaine charges. And, most importantly for this site, sports fans saw Los Angeles host the Summer Olympics, the first 64 team Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, and… drum-roll please… The Detroit Tigers win the 1984 World Series.

So what better do 3 guys who grew up in the Detroit area have to do but write about and discuss the current Tigers squad in hopes that they can bring the Glory Days back to Motown. Here’s to this year’s team Restoring the Roar of 1984!

We here at Restore the Roar will be downtown tomorrow celebrating our 1-3 Tigers home opener against the Texas Rangers. It should be a rousing time, destined to involve tons of laughs and pints of beer.

In celebration of that, here’s a quick little desktop wallpaper I created this afternoon for you folks at home. Just click the image above and ‘Save as…’. You’ll be restoring the roar everyday this summer. Bless you boys!

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