Eric Williams covered the Sonics' last season in Seattle. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.
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When building an arena in a city that averages 200 cloudy days a year and has accrued a world-wide reputation for its rainy countenance, you'd think a watertight roof would be somewhere near the top of the priority list.
You'd think.
This apparently was not the case for the Seattle Center Coliseum, which came to life in the World's Fair year of 1962 as the Washington State Pavilion.
Pity the poor Coliseum, which soon became as notorious for its leaky roof as its city was for its brooding climate. The Coliseum, which hosted the Beatles in August of 1964, went from the sublime to the ridiculous in just eight years.
On March 5, 1972, 37 years ago today, the Coliseum endured its first memorable water-related pratfall.
