Top 10 things in Sports you wish were still around.

I will see you Alcoa Fantastic Finishes and raise you "IBM Presents you Make the Call."

Shoeless, nice reference to the Cannibal.

 

Thank you. Thank you.
Technically he's still around and even riding, just not the same as 35 years ago.

 

NBCs Major League Baseball game of the week.

 

1. Jim McKay.

2. The Winnipeg Jets and whiteouts.

3. Tickets to anything for less than $10.

4. ABC's "Wide World of Sports".

5. Dick Enberg, Al McGuire and Billy Packer working together on college basketball.

6. Houston Astros' rainbow stripes uniforms.

7. Jack Nicklaus in contention at a major on Sunday.

8. Maple Leafs Gardens and Montreal's Forum.

9. Male tennis players who actually served and volleyed, wooden rackets.

10. Steelers-Raiders rivalry featuring Bradshaw, Swann, Lambert, Stabler, Hendricks, Upshaw, Biletnikoff, etc.

10. (tie) College players who played for four years.

 

You, sir, are a man after my own heart. All these years, I thought I was the only one who did that. I raise a toast to you!!!

 

Not to mention the Padres mustard uni, Braves powder blue and The Montreal expos.

The Knicks actually making the playoffs.

 

1. I will second wooden tennis rackets and add wooden drivers for golfers.
2. Every game in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament being played east of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
3. Every Steeler (or Jet or Bill or Dolphin, etc...) Sunday home game being played at 1 p.m. Enough of this 4 p.m. crap.
4. When Sportscenter showed the results of games and not 25 things that might happen in games not yet played.
5. The Liberty Bowl, the Bluebonnet Bowl, the Orange Bowl... F naming rights. The same goes with stadiums.
6. Old NFL logos. Enough of this stylized flowing pieces of crap.
7. Names spelled conventionally. Chone, Sian, Shawon, etc...
8. Players earning a name by actually playing 3-4 seasons of college basketball.
9. When I knew the names of 10 active boxers.
10. When baseball stories did not include cream, clear and needle.

 

Well done.

I'll add

1. The Superstars
2. The National
3. Boxing on the networks on weekend afternoons
4. Bowling on ABC with Chris Schenkel
5. Peter Puck

 

Off the top of my head

1) Real brooms in curling
2) Cooperalls
3) Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club
4) Tony Kubek doing colour on Jays games
5) Mashie-niblick

 

JR ... you gotta have 'hockey that ended in April/May' in there.

 

1) Daytime World Series games
2) Gillette College Football Scoreboard
3) Curt Gowdy hosting American Sportsman

 

1. College football season that ended on New Year's day; didn't involve a BCS and the best games are on ABC
2. The old NBC NBA Finals music. DA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA DA NA NA NA NA NA
3. The traditional offense at Michigan
4. Flip Saunders and Chauncey Billups on the Pistons.
5. Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers, Minnesota North Stars - the Wild, Hurricanes and Blue Jackets and Predators all suck.
6. 3 divisions per conference in the NFL, instead of four.
7. THE CITRUS BOWL - It is not the Capital ONE!!!! ARGGGHHHHHHHHH
8. Keith Jackson calling college football games
9. Wayne Fontes coaching the Lions