The Origin of Beat LA?

by sfgiants114 on Jun 3, 2008 1:46 AM PDT

Hey guys, I was wondering if any one knows when Giants fans first chanted "Beat LA" because i heard someone claim it was started in the eastern conference finals of 1983 when the celtics were finishing off some team and getting ready to play the lakers, but I always figured it was us that started it. I would hate to think it wasn't us Giants fans that started the glorious chant. BEAT LA BEAT LA!

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damn you espn

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by i did my job on Jun 3, 2008 2:38 AM PDT reply actions

Whoever told you that was right...

Although the Celtics weren’t finishing off a team, they were themselves getting finished off by the 76’ers. At the end of the game, all the Celtics fans in the Boston Garden chanted it to pump up Dr. J, Moses Malone, & Co. to take out the Lakers in the finals. Within a couple of years it was a regular chant at Candlestick—I’m not sure exactly when, but definitely by ‘87.

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by Josh from Hollywood on Jun 3, 2008 2:42 AM PDT reply actions

Not true

I was at a game in August of ‘78 (the series that pretty much ended our first place run) when hey had Bob Welch on the ropes all game long and kept hitting line drives right at people to end innings, and the Beat LA chant was going loud and strong through that game, and I think all that weekend. Can’t remember it back further than that, but a few years later in the final series of the ‘82 season (that ended with the Joe Morgan HR game) the chant was going strong all weekend and I’d be surprised if some of that didn’t still exist on video.

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by Roger on Jun 3, 2008 6:11 AM PDT up reply actions

Oh, sure...

Go ahead and bring up stuff from prehistoric times, why don’t you?

But seriously, I was still in diapers in ‘78 (though I was 7 years old by then—long story), so I must plead ignorance.

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by Josh from Hollywood on Jun 3, 2008 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions

When I was seven we had Pull-ups. Sure, they were just glorified diapers, but I was a big kid then, dammit!

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by howtheyscored on Jun 3, 2008 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions

i hope youre right

i tell everyone we started it. all the kings fans who chanted it when they were good and playing the lakeshow every year would never believe me though

by Azmanz on Jun 3, 2008 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't know..

But I was really annoyed when every 10 minutes or so on SportsCenter (nothing else to do with no internet than watch SportsCenter) they showed the Celtics beating “BEAT LA BEAT LA.” That’s ours.

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by WalrusMan on Jun 3, 2008 4:37 PM PDT reply actions