Posted on 03/18/2020 3:34:38 AM PDT by C19fan
As essentially everyone in the world is being asked to stay indoors and away from others during the coronavirus pandemic, we no longer have the one thing that could reliably bring us together and keep us from vacating our couches: live sports. Nearly every active sports league has suspended games, including the NCAA’s marquee, March Madness.
Instead of spending this week pretending to be busy at work while secretly watching college basketball games at our desks and checking our brackets on our smartphones during meetings, many of us are stuck indoors with our pets, roommates, partners, and children — and there are no live sports to escape to. With normalcy gone in every corner of our lives, it’s even harder for us to do what we absolutely need to do: stay indoors and distance ourselves from people outside our households.
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I was thinking ESPN might have to go back to its early days of shows....World’s Strongest Man, curling, stuff like that.
Virtually any game you want can be found in youtube.
Redskins beating the Dolphins in the Super Bowl.
1980 Holiday Bowl. One of the best comeback victories ever.
Can we allow betting on those games? Just to spice up the interest...
Maybe this will usher in a new fad activity. It was the NHL strike a while back that kicked off the poker boom. ESPN decided to fill the NHL games they were supposed to cover with the WSOP coverage they had in the can.
Last night they were airing Mexican soccer from an empty stadium.
2. Maybe NBC can finally air the rest of the game that Heidi cut off?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-heidi-bowl
On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets—and no one sees it, because they’re watching the movie Heidi instead. With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in favor of its previously scheduled programming, a made-for-TV version of the children’s story about a young girl and her grandfather in the Alps. Viewers were outraged, and they complained so vociferously that network execs learned a lesson they’ll never forget: “Whatever you do,” one said, “you better not leave an NFL football game.”
Yep. War Eagle!
Oh my god what we do if we can’t watch sports!!? Oh, that’s right, live my life.
The entire 1987 World Series between the Braves and Twins.
The entire 1987 World Series between the Braves and Twins.
‘87 series was Cardinals. 91 was the Braves. Both great series.
Doh! You are right! That would make it even better as my better-half is from Florissant, MO.
As a life long, die-hard sports fan I will not watch ANY reruns of old games no matter what they are. These sports networks are all part of the same 3 or 4 conglomerates that hate Trump and by extension, they hate ME! EFF’m!
I can do without that one...
The epic AFC divisional playoff game between the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins that took place on January 2, 1982.
Here’s one of mine...
2001 GMAC Bowl - the highest scoring bowl game ever. East Carolina led 38-8 at half and Marshall came back to win it 64-61 in 2 OT’s. The 4th quarter was quite the jolter - especially the ending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_GMAC_Bowl
Author sounds like he is dissatisfied with his family life.
Ha. She is dissatisfied with her family life.
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