Started By
Message
ESPN fans - welcome to 1979
Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:53 pm
For those of us old enough to remember the early days of ESPN. They didn't have the rights to a lot of major sports back then so we got a daily dose of:
Arm Wrestling
Frisbee Games
Skeetshooting
Celebrity Fishing
Random soccer matches between two schools you've never heard of.
Arm Wrestling
Frisbee Games
Skeetshooting
Celebrity Fishing
Random soccer matches between two schools you've never heard of.
17
Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:55 pm to Auburn80
Need this:
Wide World of Sports
Wide World of Sports
Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:55 pm to Auburn80
Don't forget women's roller derby on Sunday mornings before church.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:55 pm to Auburn80
Just in time to show UGA win it all.
Highlights maybe.
Highlights maybe.
This post was edited on 3/23/20 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:56 pm to Auburn80
For younger folk that was called ESPN Classic.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 5:15 pm to Auburn80
Australian rules football.
Bernhard Langer playing golf against women.
Bernhard Langer playing golf against women.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 5:22 pm to Auburn80
Bring back the strong man competitions. That shite was worth watching regardless. Should be a regular feature.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 5:58 pm to Auburn80
I forgot Combat Juggling
Posted on 3/23/20 at 5:59 pm to Auburn80
The year I was born. 
Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:08 pm to Auburn80
I, personally, am hoping ESPN revives reruns of the old American Sports Cavalcade and World’s Strongest Man competitions. WWF could allow them to show WCCW from the Dallas Sportatorium also. I’d watch Ice Man King Parsons fight Colonel Skandar Akbar and Kamala, follow it up with some swamp buggy racing from the Florida Sportsman’s Park in Naples, Florida. Then cap the night off with Lou Ferigno vs Bill Kazmeier for the strongest man competition.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:12 pm to Enos Burdette
quote:
Bill Kazmeier
That’s a name from the past. He lived in Auburn while I was a student. Saw him driving a car that he barely fit into.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:14 pm to Auburn80
Mountain of a human. Should see some of his performances from the early 80’s on those old strongest men programs.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:24 pm to Auburn80
google:
"Super 70's Sports", when you finally take a break sometime tmrw afternoon you can thank me.
"Super 70's Sports", when you finally take a break sometime tmrw afternoon you can thank me.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:29 pm to Auburn80
They showed the chicks in Hawaii exercising early in the mornings before sports center came on too.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:31 pm to Auburn80
Wahhhh!
B-b-b-back iN mUh dAy...
Back in your day you couldn't get on the internet and complain about everything.
Sounds good to me!
B-b-b-back iN mUh dAy...
Back in your day you couldn't get on the internet and complain about everything.
Sounds good to me!
Posted on 3/23/20 at 8:24 pm to WilliamTaylor21
We used to talk to people about this stuff in person,you know,face to face,talking to one another.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 9:43 pm to Auburn80
quote:
Celebrity Fishing
This even being a thing is enough to make people fearful for the future.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 10:26 pm to Auburn80
Funny you mention this, because when people go off on ESPN about being terrible and what not, the entire time I'm thinking - you have no idea what they have done for sports.
Maybe if they listened to the majority of games on the radio and only got to see their team play in bigger games on TV, they'd have a different opinion. Or what sucks even more when your team isn't having a great year, is you only get to see them when they are playing a really good team, so they get their arse whipped.
Thanks to ESPN people get to watch every game on TV. And they don't have to pay for shite like Jefferson Pilot anymore either.
Maybe if they listened to the majority of games on the radio and only got to see their team play in bigger games on TV, they'd have a different opinion. Or what sucks even more when your team isn't having a great year, is you only get to see them when they are playing a really good team, so they get their arse whipped.
Thanks to ESPN people get to watch every game on TV. And they don't have to pay for shite like Jefferson Pilot anymore either.
Posted on 3/23/20 at 10:53 pm to 3down10
You’re spot on about how ESPN has change the nature of sports on TV.
I’d rather watch old NFL films than people yelling at each other.
quote:. People go off on ESPN not because of the sporting events, but because they feel the need to fill every moment that isn’t sports with commentary. Much of it awful quasi political commentary.
Funny you mention this, because when people go off on ESPN about being terrible and what not,
I’d rather watch old NFL films than people yelling at each other.
This post was edited on 3/23/20 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 3/23/20 at 10:58 pm to Auburn80
Need that Australian Football League back for it to be legit
Page 1 of 2
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News