NFT: Sports Phone: A blast from the past

your link is much more interesting though. I don't remember dialing to get scores, it reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the movie listings.

or dealing drugs I was on the phone calling. The guy who does:did the announcing at Knick games was their voice

was a name i remember.

Was known as "Scott Randolph" on the updates to the southern US.

remember dialing up to find out who the Giants drafted. Was stunned to hear this name Phil Simms QB Morehead State.

Don't know which is harder for the young-uns to believe that 1)the only choices for up to the minute sports info then were CBS88 and WINS1010 at :15 or :45 or the sports phone or 2) hardly anyone gave a crap about the draft. It was held on a week day afternoon and only the big names were familiar to most fans. I literally had never heard of Simms and I was probably more up on the draft then 99% of football fans at the time.

And I also had one of those football phones...got it with my paid subscription to SI.

In comment 12397990 Headhunter said:

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or dealing drugs I was on the phone calling. The guy who does:did the announcing at Knick games was their voice

Headhunter, the line was used by organized crime to broadcast the daily number! They used to announce the total mutual handleof whatever race track was running, of which the last three numbers were the daily number.

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"We did the Tampa fishing phone from New York," Trautwig said. "You called this guy Bob who talked about Buoy 17 and the causeway."

Race results from the meadowlands to check and see if won if we left the track early before the late races.