What things about any sport do you miss and wish would still be that way? I have a few..
-MLB trade deadline being at midnight.
-NFL draft starting at noon on Saturday.
-NBA on NBC.
-Saturday afternoon NFL in December.
-Steroids in baseball...yes, I'm serious. I miss when baseball mattered nationally. I miss Barry Bonds AB's being cut into by ESPN. It was much more interesting.
-Rivalries. They are few and far between now.
-Madden & Summerall.
What am I missing?
Madden and Summerall.
Shutting up Stan would also be damn fun to watch.
All NFL games played on Sunday afternoon except MNF and late season Saturday games
No interleague play in MLB
The World Series "home team" rotating each season by league (not based on All Star Game winner).
Just the 90's NFL in general even though we had a lot of crappy years.
The early-mid 90's Seattle Supersonics with Shawn Kemp and The Glove in their primes.
- Bat Day at baseball games.
- This Week in Baseball (and its great theme).
- The original Monday Night Football theme
- Madden, Summerall, Gifford, Cosell, Enberg, Charlie Jones
- A dominant Giants LB corps
- Alcoa Presents: Fantastic Finishes
- Wide World of Sports
nfl primetime, 1992ish, before the whole network became a fucking disgrace.
Wasnt like it is now where youve already seen every highlight 3x by 730pm. berman and tj no bells and whistles, no cmon man bullshit. just an hour more of football after dinner and before bed on a school night.
was a great time to be a little boy.
* The old, old Yankee Stadium with it's outrageous dimensions.
* Ebbett's Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
* Some of the great old NY coaches: Red Holzman, Bill Parcells, Casey Stengel.
* That old Knicks team with Willis, Debusschere, Bradley, Frazier and Barnett, even more so than when Monroe took over at SG.
* LT.
Amen.
nfl primetime, 1992ish, before the whole network became a fucking disgrace.
Wasnt like it is now where youve already seen every highlight 3x by 730pm. berman and tj no bells and whistles, no cmon man bullshit. just an hour more of football after dinner and before bed on a school night.
was a great time to be a little boy.
do you remember "Monday Night Matchup" on ESPN with Allie Sherman as lead analyst? Then Phil Simms joined after he retired, was his first gig
Less sideline interviews.
Less focus on the crowd/celeberties.
Focus on plays and the game. We don't need 6 reporters and commentators for a game.
I miss that teams had different styles of play. The NHL has become so homogenous and generic
God I loved when we would here someone was getting a physical.
BBI - Glovedone with his asshattery
I always thought daytime baseball postseason games were weird. Especially on weekdays. So many people are at work. I guess it isn't that big a deal in a DS.. but in a CS or WS it was crazy to me.
Basically football pre-Roger Goodell
Morganna!
YES!!
When sports in general was more about competition than marketing
When we didn't know the every move of every athlete and there was actually mystique with sports
Get off my lawn
I miss NFL teams not being decimated by injury
I miss my NFL team being primarily on Sunday at 1pm or 4pm or the rare MNF game. No SNF, THNF, London games, etc.
I miss two-a-day NFL training camps and "real" training camps
I miss ESPN having sports and sportscenter being watchable
I miss Fenway NOT playing Sweet Caroline in the 8th inning
I miss the NBA where there wasn't a 3 pt shot most of the time (or a lot of the time)
I miss those gambling slips I used to play growing up
I don't
I miss the days when AAU and sneaker companies didn't poison high school and college basketball.
Very true.
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Also, howard cosell doing the halftime highlights on MNF.
I saw them in Saratoga 2 weeks ago. Fun show, they still have it.
Hank - ( New Window )
Giants Stadium
Giants 80's endzone colors
Pre-games about the games rather than idiots laughing like there is some inside joke none of us are in on.
Giants players being introduced rather than the whole team running out of the tunnel
Jim Gordon announcing Rangers (TV) Giants (radio)
Wide World of Sports Boxing
The Patrick, Adams, Norris and Smythe Divisions
The Houston Oilers
Big East Basketball
Rangers fans screaming during the playoff National Anthems
Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers
Los Angeles Rams (check, they brought them back)
Spuds MacKeenzie and Less Filling/Tastes Great debates
Bill Parcells
Summerall and Madden
goalies using their sticks to clear the crease!!!
NHL on ESPN
Watching preseason Giants games on tape delay.
Watching WKRP in Cincinnati before MNF.
Tougher Athletes
Less whiny athletes
Less commercials during games
Better commentators
ESPN before it became E Network-Lite
Coaches and Players wearing Starter team jackets on sidelines
1986
Bo Jackson
Strat-o-matic baseball 1983-1990
Even though I'm on a message board now, I miss the old days where trades and speculation was discussed in newspapers and talk radio. Watching the local news for Sports.
Giants playing at 1 or 4 on CBS with Summerall and Madden
The nights Gooden was on the mound at Shea. Ralph Kiner and Tim McCarver.
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I miss fighting, the positioning in front of the net and the stick work, the red line, and the blind eye to marginal interference. Hockey used to have a huge element of brute force to it, every year it becomes more of a finesse sport like every other one. A guy like Scott Stevens today would maybe play 10 games before being suspended forever.
goalies using their sticks to clear the crease!!!
Fuck yeah. Also the classic blocker to the back of the head, very underrated. I pay to watch jacked millionaires abuse each other for entertainment not some pansy long haired euro trash skate fast.
Only half kidding.
I also miss pre-millennium NFL. Back when smashmouth football existed, and not this new-age NFL where guys can't even lay a finger on their opponent without getting flagged.
Madden and Summerall.
Big East football on CBS.
Battle of the Stars.
This week...iiiiiiin Basebalwwlll!
Keith Jackson announcing college football games.
Mike Tyson fights pre-PPV.
The Scooter and White.
USA Network WWF wrestling on Sunday mornings at 11a.
Home Run Derby replays from the 1950's in black and white.
Rosen and JD doing Rangers games.
Real Big East Basketball.
The Real Big East Basketball Tournament.
Marv Albert's "YES!" when a Knick hits a three.
"I'm going to Disneyworld!"
Giants Stadium
Giants 80's endzone colors
Pre-games about the games rather than idiots laughing like there is some inside joke none of us are in on.
Giants players being introduced rather than the whole team running out of the tunnel
Jim Gordon announcing Rangers (TV) Giants (radio)
Wide World of Sports Boxing
The Patrick, Adams, Norris and Smythe Divisions
The Houston Oilers
Big East Basketball
Rangers fans screaming during the playoff National Anthems
Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers
Los Angeles Rams (check, they brought them back)
Spuds MacKeenzie and Less Filling/Tastes Great debates
Bill Parcells
Summerall and Madden
Great list.
- Up Close with Roy Firestone
- Kiner's Korner
- The font CBS used in the late '80s
- Watching football without a bunch of shit all over the screen
- Tom Landry dressing like a man instead of an NFL shop mannequin on the sideline
- Jimmy the Greek
- Inside the NFL in the late '80s
- More than anything else, having NFL teams stay together long enough to be able to actually become great. Seeing more or less the same cast of Giant players and coaches take years to climb to the top and knock Montana from the top of the mountain is as gratifying as it gets for a fan.
Even when they added Collinsworth - which was a fuckin abomination! - it was awesome.
Now they have Adam Schein and Boomer? Disgrace.
Frazier/Reed Knicks
Billy Martin losing it.
The Park/Ratelle Rangers, as well as the Brian Leetch Rangers.
NHL before the trap.
NBA before Daley/Riley sluggo ball, where teams passed the ball and hit the open man.
Before interleague baseball
When the all-star game meant nothing
Bernie/Jeter/Mo
Yankee legends like Mickey, Yogi and Joe D still being around.
Yanks being great
Even when they added Collinsworth - which was a fuckin abomination! - it was awesome.
Now they have Adam Schein and Boomer? Disgrace.
Same here. Whoever that narrator was, I want him to narrate my day to day.
- Leetch/Richter Rangers
- Madden & Summerall
- NCAA Football video games
- Bo Jackson in a Raiders uniform
Fuller (broader) sports coverage
TV coverage of the actual play on the field; and not the human interest storylines or broadcasters in the booth.
All We Need is One Pin Rodney - ( New Window )
Oh, and a winning Giants' season, of course.
The Olympics being meaningful.
The Nebraska-Oklahoma game around Thanksgiving every year.
New Year's Day bowls being meaningful.
That was longtime Phillies announcer Harry Kalas, who passed away in 2009.
I had so many great ones when I was in grade school. I can't believe I got rid of 90% of them. Dumbest thing I ever did.
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I had so many great ones when I was in grade school. I can't believe I got rid of 90% of them. Dumbest thing I ever did.
You and me both! I could wear some of those today! Damn
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I had so many great ones when I was in grade school. I can't believe I got rid of 90% of them. Dumbest thing I ever did.
You and me both! I could wear some of those today! Damn
JKidd Mavs, Jamal Mashburn Mavs, Shawn Kemp/Gary Payton Supersonics, Chris Webber Warriors and Bullets, Rasheed Wallace Bullets, Penny Hardaway Magic, Latrell Spreewell Warriors, Glenn Robinson Bucks, Bobby Hurley Kings, Tim Hardaway Warriors, Jalen Rose Nuggets, Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson Suns, Zo/LJ Hornets, Damon Stoudamire Raptors, Allen Iverson Sixers.. I could go on and on. That was only about 60% of what I had. I would 100% still have worn them now if I had them. :(
the garden crowd love affair for the knicks during the '73 championship run and not ever hearing the national antham
the '69-73 knick teams, their style of play, and the rivalries with the celtics, bullets, and sixers
nba's era of dominent centers, especially Russall, Chamberlain, Thurmund, and Kareem who could defensively intimidate the entire opposing team
the '94 rangers stanley cup team's style of play under Mike Keenan and the team he had that year
watching the pre-incarceration Ali box with Cosell announcing
wrestling in the early 60's with the golden boy arnould skaaland, bobo brazil, bruno sammartino, and the fabulous Kangaroos
the '86 n.y. giants and parcells
the intro's to the "wide world of sports"
Before my time, but a reintroduction of this, maybe modified, could save the game from the hack-a-XXX (Shaq, Deandre, Drummond) shitshow. I guess it depends on which you think is worse -- the hacking or the guys who cant hit a FT.
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I had so many great ones when I was in grade school. I can't believe I got rid of 90% of them. Dumbest thing I ever did.
You and me both! I could wear some of those today! Damn
JKidd Mavs, Jamal Mashburn Mavs, Shawn Kemp/Gary Payton Supersonics, Chris Webber Warriors and Bullets, Rasheed Wallace Bullets, Penny Hardaway Magic, Latrell Spreewell Warriors, Glenn Robinson Bucks, Bobby Hurley Kings, Tim Hardaway Warriors, Jalen Rose Nuggets, Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson Suns, Zo/LJ Hornets, Damon Stoudamire Raptors, Allen Iverson Sixers.. I could go on and on. That was only about 60% of what I had. I would 100% still have worn them now if I had them. :(
They were so comfortable too! Fuck!
Players in sports really hating each other and being as devastated as we are when they lose
-Mel "how bout that!" Allen, Ernie "looooong gone!" Harwell, Harry Kalas, Scooter "Huckleberry" Rizzuto.
-Eddie Layton playing "Charge!"
-Bob Shepperd wishing me a "Good Evening" and welcoming me to Yankee Stadium also telling me "Hostetler to hold, Bahr will kick"
-John Condon welcoming me to MSG and telling me the goal is good when it's an and one and to " score the goal!" When it's goaltending
-Scott Stevens sending a physical reminder to keep your head up when coming over the blue line and telling anyone who had a problem with it "your next!"
Carl Banks resurrected the starter line and they're available again.
Not sure about the parkas but the satin jackets definitely are.
Yankee Stadium
NFL Defense
Relevant and popular Boxing
Bob Sheppard
the Starter factory was in New Haven, CT and we used to go there for their clearance sales all the time and pick up cheap gear.
That stadium cannot be replicated. My fandom started to waver when the new stadium was built, no real desire to go anymore.
the Starter factory was in New Haven, CT and we used to go there for their clearance sales all the time and pick up cheap gear.
Now it's a crossfit gym :(
That too.................
That stadium cannot be replicated. My fandom started to waver when the new stadium was built, no real desire to go anymore.
Not a Yankees fan, but my father and brother are diehards. And I spent a lot of my youth in Yankee Stadium.
My first game was there. When I was 5 or 6, my father (divorced) came by my house and said come on, "I'm taking you to Yankee Stadium".
We drove from New Haven, parked at the Stadium parking lot, and walked to the stadium.
I was mesmerized. Reggie Jackson, Mickey Rivers, Graig Nettles, Thurmon Munson, Roy White, Chambliss, Piniella, etc.
Jim Beattie pitched
Yankees lost, but Reggie, my hero at the time, had a huge game, hit a triple and I think got a hit every time he was up.
such a great day. so even as a Mets fan, I'll always fondly remember Yankee Stadium.
West Point actually beating Navy in football
ECAC Hockey Tournament (pre-Hockey East) at old Boston Garden
As a kid I was in something called the NFL Superpro Club, which gave you one of these nifty posters to track the standings
that's a good memory? Classy.
Griffey Jr hitting a bomb to the RF upper deck, as a kid I was in awe
--The old, old Yankee Stadium.
--Regularly scheduled double-headers on a Sunday afternoon in the old, old Yankee Stadium.
--Going to any given sporting event where the actual game itself didn't seem to be a means of someone reaching deep into my pocket.
Ah, yes! Back in the 70's they held a 4 team Holiday Tournament at MSG around Christmas. They would play a double-header Friday night and the consolation/championship games Sunday afternoon.
More times than not the Rangers were playing Sunday night, so by the weekend was over, I was all hockey-out.
FWIW, I loved Cornell and the noise their band and fans brought to the arena. ;>)
As a kid I was in something called the NFL Superpro Club, which gave you one of these nifty posters to track the standings
70s-00s Yankee Stadium - I wish I got to see the original
Showtime Lakers
Bob Sheppard
Marv Albert doing Knicks and Rangers games - YES!
The old Garden PA guy saying Patrick Ewing's name
Hey [fill in the Yankee name], this Bud's for you.
Holy Cow! - From Scooter, not Harry Caray
White/Messer/Rizzuto
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was when Clements beaned Mike Piazza, I was right behind home plate, upper deck though.. lol
that's a good memory? Classy.
To witness a historical baseball event yes.. no Met hater here.
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was when Clements beaned Mike Piazza, I was right behind home plate, upper deck though.. lol
that's a good memory? Classy.
To witness a historical baseball event yes.. no Met hater here.
Sorry, I shouldn't have commented on it. Everyone has their own reasons for nostalgia. and I shouldn't judge others.
I don't find anything historic about Clemens beaning Piazza (regardless of the teams I wouldn't change my opinion), but whatever, my opinion is no better than anyone else's and I apologize for suggesting you weren't classy for your opinion.
Haha, yeah those count. Nothing since has come close texture and tastewise, let alone the WWF star that comes on each one.
2nd place was Jeter's 3000th hit
Another was a 14 K performance by Guidry in the 80s. If I remember correctly, it was not long after a DL stint and they pulled him after 7, I think. I thought he had a shot at besting his 18 Ks that day.
I don't recall the opponent or year, but going to an actual scheduled daytime doubleheader.
Sheffield hitting an opposite field upper deck HR. I have not seen that in Yankee Stadium before or since.
Loved Reggie Jackson ABs. - The only time I rooted for a non-Yankee while playing the Yankees was in Reggie's first game in the stadium as an Angel. I made my dad get me tickets and wore an Angels Reggie replica jersey. I wanted the Yankees to win, but so desperately wanted a Reggie HR. it felt weird when i got my wish off of Guidry of all people.
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was when Clements beaned Mike Piazza, I was right behind home plate, upper deck though.. lol
that's a good memory? Classy.
To witness a historical baseball event yes.. no Met hater here.
Sorry, I shouldn't have commented on it. Everyone has their own reasons for nostalgia. and I shouldn't judge others.
I don't find anything historic about Clemens beaning Piazza (regardless of the teams I wouldn't change my opinion), but whatever, my opinion is no better than anyone else's and I apologize for suggesting you weren't classy for your opinion.
Yes. Absolutely counts. These were legendary.
I stopped watching wrestling 15 years ago but I will never forget watching Superstars every Saturday afternoon when I was a kid.
Man, the nostalgia is killing me right now. I miss the 90's.
Never one of the good teams.
Also.. not sports related but when the Ellio's frozen pizza boxes had the ninja turtles cutout masks on the back of them that was outstanding.
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was when Clements beaned Mike Piazza, I was right behind home plate, upper deck though.. lol
that's a good memory? Classy.
To witness a historical baseball event yes.. no Met hater here.
Sorry, I shouldn't have commented on it. Everyone has their own reasons for nostalgia. and I shouldn't judge others.
I don't find anything historic about Clemens beaning Piazza (regardless of the teams I wouldn't change my opinion), but whatever, my opinion is no better than anyone else's and I apologize for suggesting you weren't classy for your opinion.
I agree with you. I don't find anything historic or iconic about that moment. It is an odd favorite memory of a stadium filled with so many more legitimate huge moments.
No appology necessary, of course there were much better memories I was just stating one I happened to witness in person.
When they brought it back in line with Reggie's induction into the HOF, it wasn't nearly as good. I had one preserved for a while, but I no longer have it. I can't remember if I ate it or it just found it's way to the garbage.
The flip side, though, is how many greatly diminished and/or prematurely ended careers did we experience prior to TJS being a common thing?
HD TV - this is huge
continual score screen crawlers (I remember when I was a kid, every 20 minutes you'd hear that tone played and you look and they'd update scores across the bottom of the screen. Sometimes they'd cut in to your game with highlights from another but nothing like today. - but I have Sunday Ticket and they have the Game Mix channel which shows 8 games at once.
mobile watching (phone, tablet, etc.)
and that's just tip of the iceberg.
it's not all bad even amid the nostalgia reminiscing about all that was good with sports but no longer exists, I can recognize some positive change.
HD TV - this is huge
continual score screen crawlers (I remember when I was a kid, every 20 minutes you'd hear that tone played and you look and they'd update scores across the bottom of the screen. Sometimes they'd cut in to your game with highlights from another but nothing like today. - but I have Sunday Ticket and they have the Game Mix channel which shows 8 games at once.
mobile watching (phone, tablet, etc.)
and that's just tip of the iceberg.
it's not all bad even amid the nostalgia reminiscing about all that was good with sports but no longer exists, I can recognize some positive change.
Gretzky's stick, he used those Titans all the time. and the Jofa helmet - ugly as sin. Every now and then we get a guy in men's league that wears one. My father would kick my ass if he knew I was paying $150 for a hockey stick. I did have one replaced by Bauer that broke in the 30-day warranty period which was nice, but they don't last.
one hockey thing I disagree with others on is the Scott Stevens hit...I love toughness in hockey, but that was a dangerous play in any era, his signature move was he was usually the off D and blind-sided players with a high open ice hit. that's not tough. It's cheap and ended the careers of multiple players including Lindros and Kariya.
Removing that play from hockey was a positive move.
NHL, NFL (switch to standard definition and tell me you could watch it - youtube some 80's games that are still there even in part in SD, it's amazing), and even something like golf, which I was never a huge fan of on TV, but watch golf on TV in HD and it's just an amazing enhancement.
Of course that's the reason
me too. If I want to see a live game without going broke its Bridgeport Bluefish time.
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I think HD has actually had the biggest positive impact in the NHL. When I was a kid I used to lose the puck constantly on the tube and would have trouble seeing it. As I got older, I got better at following play to the point where I wouldn't need to even see it to know where it was.. and of course, FOXTRAX happened in the 90's.. but I just think the viewing quality in the NHL in particularly has been improved SO much by the HD technology.
NHL, NFL (switch to standard definition and tell me you could watch it - youtube some 80's games that are still there even in part in SD, it's amazing), and even something like golf, which I was never a huge fan of on TV, but watch golf on TV in HD and it's just an amazing enhancement.
I have zero interest in golf but when HD arrived I would actually watch it once in a while just because it looked so nice from an aesthetic standpoint. I was like.. "whoa! I can see actual blades of grass.. this is cool!"
it seems blurry
1986 NFC Championship game vs SF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzCl4EsovB8
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2011 NFC Championship game vs SF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DamokvLB1kw
of course you could watch it, but it's so much better in HD
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It doesn't require the sharpness and fine details that hockey or baseball does.
it seems blurry
1986 NFC Championship game vs SF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzCl4EsovB8
vs
2011 NFC Championship game vs SF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DamokvLB1kw
of course you could watch it, but it's so much better in HD
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I may be the only person who actually liked them. I really thought it was a great candy bar. I was at the game they gave them out and couldn't understand why anyone would throw them on the field.
When they brought it back in line with Reggie's induction into the HOF, it wasn't nearly as good. I had one preserved for a while, but I no longer have it. I can't remember if I ate it or it just found it's way to the garbage.
Reggie Bars had a Choclatety coating not a chocolate one.
The sight lines are terrible. Way too many seats where you can't see the whole field while sitting down.
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I've never gone for precisely that reason. Why should I drive 7 hours and pay those prices when I can just drive three hours to Baltimore and see them for a third of the price?
The sight lines are terrible. Way too many seats where you can't see the whole field while sitting down.