You know that you're old school if you can....

... for the small-towners here, full-day Labor Day baseball cards at the local stadium, everything from Little League to sandlot (then known as "the town team").

 

Good call . . . I'd forgotten all about those.

. . . Frito Bandito commercials, before Frito-Lay figured out they were pretty damned offensive.

. . . Looking forward to the Jerry Lewis Telethon, because it was the only night of the year TV was on all night.

 

...And were actually "H"-shaped, instead of today's being attached to one pole?

 

--being all excited when the Sears Wish Book came out, because that's what you used to make your list to Santa Claus.
-- guys wearing turf shoes or baseball shoes to school.
-- the first time your parents paid more than $1 a gallon for gas.

 

If you can remember the drop kick and for bonus, how many points a good one was for the team that made one.

 

Fixed

 

And back then, it meant you stayed in the basement until the danger passed -- you didn't go running for a camcorder to get it on tape (something which, these days, many people -- by doing just that -- are proving that their common sense is lacking).

 

Remember the opening tag line used by one network when color came in before each show:

"The following program is brought to you, in living color, on NBC."

 

So did I. Practically every ticket was a winner. You could go up and buy a sundae, get a ticket with it, and get a free neal more times than not. I gorged at McD's.

 

When fall programming ACTUALLY BEGAN in September.

 

What memory is needed for that? Doug Flutie did that within the past couple years.

 

When there was no cable TV and you lived for the weekends, which is the only time you saw sports on the tube.