VHS

Detroit Water & Sewerage Department Presents...
Third Annual Friends of the Rouge Basketball Game
DWSD All Stars vs. Celebrity All Stars

VHS tape containing footage of the Third Annual Friends of the Rouge Benefit Basketball Game played at the Redford High School gymnasium between the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department All-Stars and the Celebrity All-Stars on March 3, 1990 shot by the Detroit Cable Commission. After a pair of title cards, the video opens with announcers Michael Giles and Rosemarie Bully discussing the Rouge River clean-up efforts undertaken by the Friends of the Rouge organization. John Mason of WJLB (and future Detroit Pistons announcer) then announces the line-ups of both teams:

Celebrity All-Stars (in Yellow)
13 - Keith Butler - Detroit City Council member
24 - Rex Nelson - Director of Communications for the Detroit Pistons
11 - Terry Duerod - former University of Detroit, Detroit Pistons, and Detroit Spirits player
23 - Mike Redford - WJBK anchor
35 - Harry Hairston - WKBD reporter
33- Randy Henry - WDIV producer
15- Gerald McBride - WJLB personality
12 - Chris Edwards - WJBK weatherman
22- Paul Gross - WDIV weatherman
Coach - John "Spider" Salley - Detroit Pistons player
out with an injury - Frank Hayden
out with an injury - Earl Higgins
absent - Dave Lewallen - WXYZ sports reporter

DWSD All-Stars (in Blue)
34 - Dave Fisher - DWSD Assistant Director
33 - Dan Krickbalm - Director of Detroit Recreation Department
42 - Bernard Kilpatrick - Wayne County Commissioner
35 - Arthur Blackwell - Wayne County Community Chairperson
15 - Richard W.H. Mustafa - head of DWSD security
41 - Cliff Russell - WWJ reporter
11 - Thomas Wintfrey - DWSD main office
42 - Dennis Kirkpatrick - DWSD main office
23 - Doug Rice - Waste Water Treatment Plant
25 - Ed Brown - North Yard and Harbor
31 - Anthony Austin - Treatment Plant
43 - Mike Johnson
44 - Otis Milhouse - DWSD main office
22 - Charlie Williams - director of DWSD
Coach - Bennie L. Benjamin - Deputy Director of DWSD
absent - Larry Simmons - executive to the mayor
present, but not suited up - Gil Hill - City Council Member

Florence Anderson then sings the National Anthem. The game is covered by several cameras. Mason provides commentary and calls raffle numbers over the gymnasium's loudspeakers, while Giles and Bully comment via voice overs for the broadcast. A free throw contest is held for fans between quarters.

At half-time, the a speaker from the Office of Program Management mentions prizes from Panasonic and Pepsi, and thanks the Detroit Police Reserves and Water and Sewerage Security officers at the event, as well as the Detroit Cable Commission for the broadcast. A segment in which Lawana Newby interviews spectators and coaches about the game so far follows. The program then cuts to cover the half-time entertainment--an "acappella showdown" between two doo wop quartets. Just Us perform The Dominos' Sixty Minute Man, and The Flamingos' Buffalo Soldier, while The Fabulous Four perform The Four Top's Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me and The Drifters' Dance With Me. The crowd's applause decides the showdown in favor of Just Us.

The game ends 86-83 in favor of the Celebrities. Rose Bully and Mike Giles conduct post game interviews with Rex Nelson, director of communications with the Detroit Pistons; Charles Williams, director of the Water Department; Mike Redford, WJBK anchor; Cliff Russell of WWJ; Harry Hairston, reporter for WKBD; Otis Milhouse of DWSD; and Paul Gross, WDIV meteorologist.

Shake Your Thang by Salt-N-Pepa and E.U. is played over both the opening and closing credits.

The video is on a T-130 tape with printed labels on the side and top. The tape is housed within a black cardboard 3M T120 sleeve.