Shuck, Rattle, & Roll Weekend

Shuck, Rattle 'N' Roll Weekend

Aug. 15 - 17

EVENT ONE: Gus Macker 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament

GUS MACKER 3-ON-3 BASKETBALL TOURNEY, America's largest outdoor basketball tournament celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2008, will be held in Olean for the first time on August 15-17, 2008.  The 3-day event will be organized and will benefit both the Olean High School Sports Booster and the Olean City School District Foundation.  The tournament is open to players of all ages and experience levels who are computer-matched by age, height and experience so that all participants can be competitive. The event, first held in Lowell, Michigan in 1974, is a family festival with food and  music along with  the basketball competition held on the streets in downtown Olean.

The Olean Gus Macker will feature the Dream Court, a special event introduced into the 2000 season of Gus Macker Tournaments. The Dream Court captures the appeal of the original McNeal family driveway, where the common hoopster becomes a star on center court.  Macker officials randomly select teams to visit a specially designed red, white, and blue All-American themed court. The experience includes bleachers, synthetic court surface, team benches, and sound stage. The contest is announced by expert play-by-play and color commentators. The goal is to provide the ultimate fun, family environment focusing on the nicknames and personalities of the players and spectators.

The Gus Macker Olean committee are also scheduling a kid zone with inflatables from the Olean Family YMCA, and a bocce court and a putting green also courtesy of Dr. Greenlawn.  Special contests that will take place include the Slam Dunk, a 3 Point, a Hot Shot, the I-86 Trifecta, and the Toilet Bowl.  Concessions will be provided by the Old Library Restaurant of Olean.  Opening ceremonies will take place Saturday, August 16.

EVENT TWO: Community Corn Festival & Wellness Rally
The Olean-Bradford Family YMCA sponsors the COMMUNITY CORN FESTIVAL & WELLNESS RALLY August 17, from 11 AM - 6 PM at Gargoyle Park in Olean. Families are invited to participate in this fun-filled day of alcohol-free activities. Wellness events include 5K Fun Run, 5K Fun Walk, Kids Fun Run, and a Wellness Fair.  Other activities include a Car Show, Children's Games, Family Challenges, Music by "DJ Dan Shembeda", Bounce Houses, Pony Rides, Corn-Eating Contest, Horse Drawn Wagon Rides, and a Petting Zoo.  Great Food includes Fresh Roasted Corn from Bockmier's Farm Market, BBQ Chicken or Ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, salt potatoes, macaroni salad, corn chowder, strawberry shortcake, nachos, soda and various baked goods.

EVENT THREE: Rally in the Valley
RALLY IN THE VALLEY MOTORCYCLE EVENT is expected to once again draw several thousand motorcyclists from across the region.  This year, the event will open with a FRIDAY KICK OFF to the RALLY concert featuring the Patti Parks Blues Band.  Games, vendors, food and fun will round out the night.  The event  runs 5:30 PM - 11 PM.  On Saturday, August 16, the stadium will be turned into a street festival  with a variety of activities, including a bike rodeo, bands, foods, and  vendors.  The event runs 11 AM - 11 PM.  

Come join us as a spectator or even better - a participant in the Rally Bike Rodeo.  Test your motorcycling skills and balance and compete for a chance to win cash prizes.  The bike rodeo includes slow ride (tests a rider's balance at a very slow speed in lanes 3 feet wide  and 50 ft. long), ball drop (passenger tries to place tennis balls on the top  of the cones), tire toss (passenger tosses bicycle tires on top of these  cones), and hot dog (the passenger attempts to bite off a dangling hot dog  covered in mustard).  Enter your rides in the annual BIKE SHOW.  Show them off, let everyone enjoy them.  Then let our judges make the tough decisions of who has the best bikes at this year’s rally.  We’ll be proudly presenting awards at least five different categories.  The Rally will also present the inaugural BYOBW-- Bring your own Big Wheel Adult Race!  Saturday’s music entertainment will include bands ~ Olean’s Blue Brothers and the band, Wildfire.  Saturday will also mark the return of the trick riders who use their bikes to climb over obstacles like  cars, tree logs, and fly over people!    

Sunday, August 17, the bikes will take to the run and complete an approximate 130-mile Advanced Monolythic Ceramics Dice Run ending at Bradner Stadium in Olean with a food, music, prizes and more.  The  bikers will compete for dice run cash prizes. Rally has lined up the band WEST to entertain from 2 - 6 PM.

-June 4, 2008