Posted on 05/12/2009 9:32:41 AM PDT by buccaneer81
Check out some of the Bruins-Canadiens bench clearers from the early 1970s. They were fantastic. I was going to give you a link, but YouTube is down right now.
That hasn’t happened. Yesterday afternoon, while sports fans were watching ESPN’s SportsCenter, Versus was airing a 30-minute infomercial for prostate relief pills.
LMAO...amazes me how these cable networks do this all the time..7 hours of info-mercials. Insanity...even Comedy Central and F/X still after all of these years and the tons of available programming go to info-mercials.
I like Vs. but let’s get real...ESPN/ESPN 2 was indeed the best place for NHL to have ANY kind of life. I am not sure what Vs. will turn into when the NHL goes back.
Not so sure I agree on the Panthers thing there. In the 1990s I went to Panthers games all the time and it was always sold out...14,440 strong. When they moved to Sunrise it dipped because of ticket costs but it’s a bigger arena and they still attract 14k a game on average.
Rodeo, hunting and fishing, I imagine.
My bad - it was the Sunday Wings/Ducks game 5 4:00pm CT start that wasn’t shown on NBC because of TPC coverage.
Versus needs to make itself known. A few bucks spent on promotion would go a long way.
Since VESUS is owned by Comcast I would bet that it’s a problem on non-Comcast cable systems. ON my Comcast VS is on channel 44 right next to ESPN/2 on channels 46 and 47.
My basic Dish Package does not carry Versus so I do not see the playoffs unless it’s on NBC.
Probably 1 out of every 100 bench clearers had some real exciting fighting in them, I can remember a few. The other 99 though were 10 minute of 40 guys paired off and mostly not fighting, usually talking about a good place to go eat after the game.
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