I've been watching a lot of vintage football and baseball games lately on Youtube, finding them tremendously relaxing to take in. I know the cat's out of the bag and we will never go back, but there's something I just miss about sport being just sport...without all the lights/pyrotechnics, loud music, drama, stupid draft outfits, hero worship, etc? Even watching the Saquon video above had a WWE vibe to it which I think is just tacky but I guess that's what's appealing these days.
Yeah I'm a curmudgeonly old fart at this point, but man there is just something pure about watching these vintage games that I sorely miss today. Anyone else agree or am I on an island (like usual)?
Down in front!
No, I don't want to go back.
I don't think it is a matter of being curmudgeonly, I think it is a factor of you want sports to be just like they were when you first started loving them when you were a kid. Sports change as everything else does, but people will always pine away for the first days when everything seemed perfect, even if there were a ton of imperfections they didn't notice.
"Just a bit, with subtlety" - no media company ever.
I won't watch the UFL or whatever baloney they put on tv in the spring because those guys have all the celebrations down pat even though they can't play worth a shit.
"Just a bit, with subtlety" - no media company ever.
That's pretty much what I was trying to say but you said it better!
is that creating a story is critical. The rest is window dressing.
Cool.
Contrast that with the look on Hostetler's face before he ran out the tunnel at SB 25. THAT is organic and real.
Something else, not seeing a consistent score box on the presentation. Watching old games with no distraction and just the game was nice.
If I remember right, prior to then teams picked either defense or offense to have introduced. right?
Either way, even if it was both, I loved that they said f-this, we're a team, we're coming out of that tunnel together. no one is above anyone else.
That's not razzle-dazzle - what the Patriots did - in fact quite the opposite.
Dye your hair green and they notice you. Celebrate a first down. Do the Rumba when you score a TD. It doesn't matter as long as people remember it. Most people don't know the number on your jersey, but they'll recognize the hair.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all. Example: Any insurance ad on TV.
If you didn't live in a big city, high school and college sports dominated the local papers, and Television was not saturated with sports the way it is today. There were only half a dozen TV channels to choose from anyway. Cable TV changed all that.
Now you have six or more football games a week, highlights of all the other games, and football talking heads on several channels all day long. The sheer volume of it all reducess its impact on viewers, so it takes a lot more to impress viewers now than it did 50 years ago.
And Jerrah's.
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Me too..and kid oriented and everyone is relaxed and enjoying the day/evening. We got a hi A team a couple years ago and it's a blast. Great atmosphere and good baseball. Just a joy like it used to be.