Posted 11/04/2011 2:50 PM

UPDATE: With 43 percent of the vote, the December 1, 1990 game against the SuperSonics in Seattle is the winner and will be played simultaneously at seven local Buffalo Wild Wings locations starting at 7 PM Wednesday.

The Portland Trail Blazers and corporate partner Buffalo Wild Wings have teamed up to give fans the opportunity to gather and watch classic games from the team’s rich heritage.

Starting Wednesday, Nov. 9, seven Portland Metro-area Buffalo Wild Wings locations will simultaneously air select Trail Blazers games every Wednesday for six weeks. The games will be voted on by fans each week at trailblazers.com starting today, with polls closing on Mondays. The winning game will then be announced on Trail Blazers Courtside on Monday nights. Go here for more information and locations of participating Buffalo Wild Wings.

To start out the Rip City Classics, we decided to go straight to the finish. The best finishes, that is. There have been some incredible late-game dramatics throughout 41 years of Portland Trail Blazers basketball, and we thought the best way to tipoff the next six Wednesdays at Buffalo Wild Wings would be to play one of those fantastic finishes. So we went through the archives and pulled the game footage from four games that featured the most thrilling conclusions. And it comes as no surprise that all four contests required overtime before the game was decided.

Now it is time for you to decided. You've got four options to choose from and you can vote as many times as you are able for the game you would like to see played in its entirety at all seven participating Buffalo Wild Wings. Voting is set to end right before Trail Blazers Courtside airs Monday night at 6 PM.

One last thing. Fear not if the game you want to see played doesn't win the vote this week. The "second place" videos from the first five weeks will comprise the voting options for the sixth and final Rip City Classic game. Sort of like the wild card race.

And now, your options for the first game of the Buffalo Wild Wings Rip City Classics. Vote for the game you would most like to see from the following:

January 22, 1983: Portland Trail Blazers v. Houston Rockets at The Summit
The Summit in Houston was the location of this overtime tilt between the Trail Blazers and Rockets in the winter of 1983. The Trail Blazers were outscored in three of the first four quarters before setting two records in overtime. One of those records will never be broken and the other still stands today.



December 1, 1990: Portland Trail Blazers v. Seattle SuperSonics at Seattle Center Coliseum
The Trail Blazers and Supersonics needed not one, not two, but three overtimes in one of the all-time classic games of the now-defunct I-5 Rivalry. Almost 15,000 fans watched at Key Arena as the Blazers and Sonics went blow-for-blow for 63 minutes before a victor was finally crowned. Also of note: a 25 year-old Nate McMillan played 19 minutes in this game.



May 5, 1990: Portland Trail Blazers v. San Antonio Spurs at the HemisFair Arena
Game 5 of the 1990 Western Conference semi-finals was a tiring affair, and not only because it took two extra frames to decide the final score. Head coach Rick Adelman had only eight players dressed, which is a tough row to hoe in a standard 48-minute affair, let alone a 58-minute playoff game. And after two Trail Blazers fouled out, Adelman was left with just one sub to work with until the final buzzer sounded.



March 3, 1991: Portland Trail Blazers v. Los Angeles Lakers at the Great Western Forum
There was much at stake when the Trail Blazers travelled to Los Angeles to take on the Lakers at the Great Western Forum back on March 29, 1991. Only 1.5 games separated the Trail Blazers, who were in first place in the Pacific Division at the time, and Lakers going into the home-stretch of the season. It looked as though the Lakers would run away with this one in the first half, but a third-quarter rally brought the Blazers back from the dead.