The Extended edition of Kings of the Road is available now at www.filmbaby.com. 71 minutes were added to bring KOTR to feature length and add over 20 new interviews with former players and management associated with the team from it beginning in 1960 through 1974. The DVD also includes newly found audio games from 1966 and 1972 and a revised photo gallery. The descriptive text was written by former team assistant Jerry Farmer who worked with the team when it moved to the Pacific Coast League briefly in 1975-6. Below are 4 versions of the text:
Kings of the Road
Synopsis A
Portland, Oregon, a professional ice hockey hot bed? Yes, during a marvelous 14 year run, Portland’s Cinderella love affair with professional ice hockey dominated the sports scene in only the 27th largest sports market in the country. Kings of the Road tells the story about how the Portland Buckaroos captivated a city and how the loyal fans responded by continuously selling out the 10,500 seat Memorial Coliseum. Award winning producer, Dan Schaefer, has contributed his skills and artistry in an extremely entertaining documentary that highlights the Buckaroos’ eventual rise as champions and division leaders in the highly competitive Western Hockey League, a league second only to the National Hockey League. During this Cinderella notch in sports history, no team, including any NHL team, won more games than the Portland Buckaroos.
Synopsis B
The Montreal Canadians dominated professional ice hockey during the 1960’s but there was a team way out West in Portland, Oregon, that dominated the sport even more. With a brand new 10,500 seat state of the art facility waiting for a tenant, Portland landed its first professional sports franchise, the Portland Buckaroos. The local media scoffed at this rag tag bunch of players and mocked the sport of ice hockey. The fans didn’t, however, and they came out in droves, packing out the Coliseum to record “sell outs” which caught the eye of the National Hockey League. Kings of the Road exquisitely tells the story of a cities Cinderella love affair with its home town team and how the Buckaroos embraced their fans, an affair that has lasted for more than 50 years.
Synopsis C
“What, a professional ice hockey team out here in Portland, Oregon?” That’s what the local media said but they soon had to eat their words. Kings of the Road entertainingly, and factually, tells the story of a team, the Portland Buckaroos, and how they rose to dominance as league champions and division leaders year after year from 1960-1974. Director Dan Schaefer has artfully, and with great detail, brought back to the screen those Cinderella years when going to a Buckaroos game was “the thing to do” in Portland. No other venue dominated Portland’s entertainment scene as did going to the packed out Memorial Coliseum for a hockey game with over ten thousand other rabid fans. This documentary will put your mind into rewind and will bring back those wonderful years when the Buckaroos dominated the sport of professional ice hockey, and yes, it was in Portland, Oregon.
Synopsis D
What, the Portland Buckaroos won more games, championships and league titles than the world famous Montreal Canadians did? Award winning Director/Producer Dan Schaefer takes you through those Cinderella years where Portland, Oregon’s professional hockey team dominated the sport. See first hand how the team, and their rabid fans, embraced each other in a manner never equaled elsewhere and why so many ex-professional hockey players now call Portland home. No doubt will be left in your mind as to why the National Hockey league coveted Portland as an expansion city. Through vintage video, and player interviews, you’ll relive the nostalgia, and euphoria, of how the 1960-74 Portland Buckaroos forever changed a city and the sport of professional ice hockey. To this day, they are icons
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