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The Garo pass. In the same game, vaguely recall seeing Griese trying to avoid a sack and losing massive yards close to the end zone.
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Had to be the demolition derby. 1960 or so.
My 6th grade teacher brought in a small portable tv to school in 86 so we could watch one of the Celtics-Rockets Finals games live during school hours.
Eric
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Franz Klammer downhill at the olympics in 76
The Eagles winning the Super Bowl.
Everything else before that I've blocked out.
Montreal Canadiens winning another Stanley cup with Maurice Richard on CBC television.
As a youth i will always remember watching Maurice's last cup win on television and my brother and i were in tears because we knew it was the end of his career.
ABC Wide World of Sports, "The thrill of Victory and the agony of Defeat" was a staple on Saturday afternoons.
the PBA was also on Saturdays and we were a big Bowling family.
NASCAR on Sundays with the old-time drivers like Richard Petty.
these were all in the early 60's before Baseball, Football and Basketball were widely televised.
Yup. Wide World was spectacular. Loved the cliff diving. Watched bowling as well. In Detroit we picked up Hockey Night in Canada and Curling on Sunday mornings, 50 years before the world discovered that it was cool.
Vinko Bogatai that poor bastard over the ski jump every week . They had a motorcycle racer wipeout too sometimes they both looked like ragdolls bouncing over the ground limbs flailing
Home Run Derby
Lafayette Grading Set
Packers - Giants 1961 Championship game. Watching it with my father and brother. All long gone now. Swift fly the years.
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Friday night fights (Boxing), Make That Spare (Bowling show).
I remember watching Home Run Derby. I remember watching OSU Basketball before the Lucas, Havlicek era. Not sure which was first.
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Ralph
1972 Olympics: Olga Korbut on the uneven bars, Dave Wottle in the 800M, Mark Spitz in nearly every swimming event. Vasily Alekseyez in the clean and jerk, US vs. Russia basketball, Kip Keino in the 1500M... I still remember that Olympics like it was yesterday.
Ice Bowl. Packers vs Cowboys. I was a wee lad and sat on my Dad’s lap the whole game. I cried when the Cowboys lost. Those were the days where one could actually still root for them
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
1975-1977 time frame, I was laying on my parents bed watching a football game and either a kickoff or punt Into the end zone and the returner ran it back all the way to the 1 yard line, I remember asking my father “What team is that” and he told me it was the Dallas Cowboys. I said that was my favorite team and loved them till about the time Drew Bledsoe joined the Patriots
Secretariat!
Monster truck racing in 1986. Back then it was actually racing, and not just a flip over contest it is today. I still have the vhs tapes we got back then, but am afraid to play them.
The first stick & ball sports I remember clearly are the 1992 Olympics, although my family tells me I watched the 1988 games as well, I have no memories of it even though I remember other things from '88.
Chick Anderson on the call. “He is moving like a tremendous machine”. Chills
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I've read where Anderson had used that call before in some other races he had announced previous to this. So it wasn't the first time he said it, but it couldn't have been a better time in what was a great race call in a great historical race.
Little known fact - that was Sham's final race.
Secretariat sucked the life out of Sham who was a fine horse in his own right. I’ve never seen a move like that after a mile. It went from 1 length to 8 lengths in a what seemed like 2 seconds. They actually had to pan the camera to fit them both in the screen
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I still remember the 72 Olympics and Mark Spitz. Then all what happened after.
I also remember seeing Franz Klammer's run and remember thinking he has put it all in.
I also remember Secretariat and that amazing run. At the end of the race you knew you were watching once in a lifetime history.
I watched early nascar....Pearson, Yarborough, Petty, Allison and even older guys. I remember seeing a circular Tractor (yes the front part of tractor trailer) race with A.J.Foyt drivng. What a hero he was to me. He cold drive everything from skateboards to space shuttles.
I loved watching Joe Namath throw a 40 yard missile straight up the middle. I have not seen a QB since that had his arm. It just kills me when I hear people who never saw him play and look at just his stats and say he's overrated.
I would watch the superstar competitions. O.J. ran away in the 100 yard dash.
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You must have loved it when Drew eventually went Dallas. I know it never came close to happening but how awesome would a Brady/Belichick vs Bledsoe/Parcells Super bowl match been?
Eric
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Erik that would have been epic! Imagine the cat n mouse with that matchup WOW
Another early memory I have is watching Theismans leg getting snapped by LT.
Joe "Willie" had the quickest or at least the top 5 quickest releases I have ever seen.
Early 1960's my dad called me over to the TV saying "Let's see if Harmon hits one for you". Had no idea what he was talking about, went in to the living room and saw Killebrew for the first time. Must have been about 6 or 7 years old.
By coincidence I saw the Mike Tyson-Buster Douglas fight broadcast from Japan.
Stopped by a friend's house late and he had the fight on. Didn't pay much attention and finally said to my friend, which one is Tyson? Had to make sure as he was getting his butt kicked.
Mine would be the 1972 Munich Olympics, World Series with Tenace, Rudi and Fingers, and The Immaculate Reception, all from August - December 1972.
Steve
1970's heavyweight fights with Ali, Foreman, Holmes, Frazier and of course called by Cosell were spectacular.
Love him or hate him, Howard Cosell knew boxing and was always astute and entertaining in calling a match. Except towards the end when he got tired of boxing and decided to quit calling the matches, i think it was the Holmes-Cobb fight was his last call. I watched that fight, and Howard's diatribe was awful.