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How To Play Nba Basketball Teams Bingo Cards
- Print and go Nba Basketball Teams, Customize or start from scratch with Nba Basketball Teams bingo cards by logging in or registering your Bingo Card Creator
- Give one card to each player.
- call off words randomly from the cut-aprt call list automatically genarated when you print your Nba Basketball Teams. You can either just call out the word or give more involved clue where the answer is.
- Players mark the word on their card.
- Get the prize bag ready! The first player to mark words in an entire row, column or diagonal wins!.
Timing Tips:
How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be. Almost 90% of bingo games with a 25 word list and 25 players will see their first bingo within 7 to 11 words being called.
Card Customization Tip:
You can use Bingo Card Creator to change the card size. This will help if you do not have a lot of time or for younger audiences.
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Words List For nba basketball teams Bingo Cards
- Atlanta Hawks
- Boston Celtics
- Chicago Bulls
- Detroit Pistons
- Golden State Warriors
- LA Clippers
- LA Lakers
- Memphis Grizzlies
- New Jersey Nets
- New Orleans Hornets
- New York Knicks
- Philadelphia 76ers
- Phoenix Suns
- Portland Trail Blazers
- Sacramento Kings
- San Antonio Spurs
- Seattle Supersonics
- Toronto Raptors
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- Dallas Mavericks
- Denver Nuggets
- Washingon Wizards
- Houston Rockets
- Indians Pacers
- Minnesota Timberwolves
The doors creak, the floorboard squeaks, and the hallways are dark and dank. The sound echoes sharply throughout the arched roof, and the shadows of the past remain intact throughout the building. The place smells like stale popcorn, fermented sweat, and rubber soles. However, it still feels like the perfect place for basketball.
Tig-Arena in Peru, Indiana, was the home of the Peru High School Tigers from 1939-1990. It was the centerpiece for basketball in the small town roughly 70 miles north of Indianapolis. The game evolved much differently in the agricultural towns of Indiana, and Peru was no different. It was a 3,500 seat basketball cathedral when it opened, ornate from the outside entrances to the hardwood bleacher seating.
The Great Depression-era Works Project Administration program was part of a major addition to Peru High School. It was partially funded by a federal government grant in 1938 of $92,572 that would be matched and supplemented by funds from the school board totaling $122,428. The total cost of the addition was $215,000.
Construction began on October 10, 1938, and a little over a year later, the complex was dedicated on December 10, 1939. The ceremonies featured 1,000 people, with groups touring the gym and seven classrooms in the building. A few of the highlights included a fully furnished apartment for the home economics department, a science laboratory, and a modern cafe. All of the rooms were equipped with air-conditioned units.
Bingo Scoreboard, Photo by Marc Viquez, Stadium Journey.
Although many accounts indicate that the gym debuted in 1940, but the first game took place on November 21, 1939, with Peru defeating Clay Township 30-26. It opened as the Peru High Gymnasium and was renamed the Tig- Arena in 1954 after a naming contest, say a few times fast, and you’ll know why the unusual name was chosen.
“Tig-Arena was just one of the best places that Hoosier Hysteria could be experienced at the small-town level,” said Brian Howey, Peru alum and founder of HoweyPolitics.com. “On a frigid February night, the Depression-era Tig-Arena was a bandbox of temperature and emotion, with the aroma of popcorn and varnish permeating the entire experience. The floor was short by modern standards. It settled into a deep bowl, which could be deafening with the 3,500 Tiger fans howling their support of the team or disgust at the refs. Our family knew of a friend who had her eardrum broken by the roar. Legendary referee Gary Muncy once quoted saying that fans at Tig-Arena would pelt officials with quarters instead of pennies, nickels, and dimes.”
Basketball was the entertainment preference for many in town on frozen weekend nights, and the players were stars and pillars throughout the community. They would be seen around town from the barbershop to the doughnut shop; in many cases, they were your friends sitting next to you in class, getting ready to play for a state championship.
Tig-Arena Trestles, Photo by Marc Viquez, Stadium Journey.
The gym would host 17 sectional tournaments from 1941 to 1963 and a regional tournament. The boys’ basketball team has won 24 of its 40 Sectional titles, including an impressive 15 during its first twenty years of existence. The 1940s and 1950s must have been something else for fans at the old gymnasium. Susan S. Neville describes it in her book “Butler’s Big Dance: The Team, The Tournament, and Basketball Fever.”
“It’s always full. It’s old-fashioned, with seats all the way around. It’s hot. It’s loud. It’s dimly lit, and it smells of popcorn. It was just an awesome experience to go to the game there.”
Former Assistant Curator/Archivist of the Miami County Museum Noah Goodling added there was much more than standard high school basketball. The new gym caused a huge spike in the high school intramural sports program, particularly in basketball, but also in other sports like volleyball.
In its first year, ten intramural basketball teams formed, including one consisting solely of Future Farmers of America Club members. The gym was also used for the band, orchestra, and choral concerts. The building is now the headquarters of the Miami Nation of Indiana who purchased the gym for $1 in 1990. According to former Tribal Council Member Erin Oliver, the tribe purchased the building due to being an affordable property that met the business and cultural needs of its members.
Tig-Arena Entrance, Photo by Marc Viquez, Stadium Journey.
The gym is now used for various activities that include community-wide events, tribal council meetings, fundraising dinners, theatrical and musical performances, and sporting events such as wrestling and mixed martial arts.
The tribe is open to basketball played and welcomes people to contact them if they have an interest. There were open gyms for basketball and softball offered up until recently, and the gym is public to morning walkers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, bingo is it’s biggest economic gain.
It is offered three nights a week and attracts a little over 100 people per session. Tables are spread out on the court, a bingo scoreboard is located at one end of the seating bowl, and there is even a full-service concession stand offering hot dogs, nachos, pizza, and Coca-Cola products.
The Miami Nation is preparing to open a museum exhibiting donated family heirlooms and memorabilia in the coming months. There is also the Crane’s Nest gift shop where visitors can purchase items from moccasins, t-shirts, wind catchers, and photographs.
The only basketball that is played at the gym these days is the occasional shoot around by workers or volunteers. However, a little over ten-years-ago basketball returned to the Tigers historic venue and transported many back in time.
On December 4, 2009, basketball made its return to the building for the first time in 19 years when the Tigers hosted Wabash High School. Peru athletic director Brian Strong hatched the idea that summer after dropping off his son at child care in the building. The Miami Nation was more than happy to house the event, and the only major expense was refinishing the floor that was 90 percent covered by a floor service company.
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The night was a success, and Peru knocked off Wabash 81-35 in front of a near-capacity crowd that included 75 former players and alumni. For one night, it was once again the golden era of Hoosier Hysteria at the Tig-Arena.
“Tig-Arena was a basketball mecca,” said former coach Bob Biddle in the Indianapolis Star at the time of the game. “It’s a true basketball arena, not a bad seat in the house. It was packed every game. It was hot, and it was loud. It was a true showplace, a great venue for basketball.”
Tig-Arena Bingo Tables, Photo by Marc Viquez, Stadium Journey.
There was hope for more games at the gym that also included girls and middle school contests. However, there has not been a Tigers held since that night 11-years-ago. During our visit, the staff worker indicated that there was an ongoing conversation about possibly hosting another high school game sometime in the future.
The facility still has a lot of grace and elegance; the Art-Deco design and lettering above the entrances still commands attention. There is an array of historic venues that once housed basketball in Indiana spread across the small county roads and highways; all of them have their piquancies, but Tig-Arena stands near the top of that list.
It is a symbol of another era of basketball, and perhaps the only crime from this writer is that I never attended a game inside of it. Alumnus Joe Kelly, who now lives in Springfield, Missouri, can still smell the popcorn when he enters the building. He attended games as a student selling 10 cent bags of popcorn and bought season tickets after he graduated from 1974-1976.
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“The gym was always packed, and you had to have season tickets to watch a game when Mr. Basketball Kyle Macy was playing. The place was built for basketball, unlike the new gym. There was nothing quite like the atmosphere. The acoustics were loud, and it was not muffled. By the time you get to everybody inside packed together screaming and cheering, it would be a tough place for our rivals from Kokomo and Logansport to play in. It was a great place to be.”
Tig-Arena Exterior, Photo by Marc Viquez, Stadium Journey.
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