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What you'll never see again in sports

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by RubberSoul1979, Apr 27, 2011.

  1. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    -The Olympics really being about anything altruistic.
    -Final Fours being played in actual basketball arenas
    -Kids playing all college sports - not just the non-revenue/Olympic sports - for the love of the game. Thanks, NCAA. Thanks a lot.
    -Alcoa's "Fantastic Finishes"
    -IBM's "You Make The Call"
    -Highlights of the Sunday games during "Monday Night Football." And I mean during the game, not a rerun of Chris Berman's highlights from Sunday. Different presentation, and by different, I mean better.
    -New Year's Day bowl games, their finality of the season and the fact that it meant the best teams were playing.
    -Another Keith Jackson announcing the game.
    -Knowing that a baseball player or cyclist really did accomplished what he/she did without PEDs.
    -More players too short/too small/too light/not strong enough being given the chance to succeed. Evolution, specialization, training and nutrition have come a long way, but stop making it about the point guard needing to be "this tall," a defensive lineman needing to weigh at least this much or telling any linebacker he's too short to get the job done.

    "Brass Bonanza" in your honor. BYH will gladly cuss out Peter Karmanos on your behalf:

     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Athletes not showing their dong on the internet

    George Michael revving up the Sports Machine

    Basketball players dunking and then not pounding their chest to show that they have heart

    Super Bowl halftime shows without Septuagenarians.
     
  3. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    -Affordable tickets to the masses. Blue-collar guys only to be seen in person by the whitest of collars.
     
  4. Gator

    Gator Well-Known Member

    1) When fans, and not corporate hacks, paid reasonable prices and sat in good seats at Fenway Park.

    2) Short shorts and basketball scores in the 130s.

    3) 50-cent packs of baseball cards that you had stacks and stack and stacks of.
     
  5. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    A winning Pirates season (unless they get moved to AAA at some point, and then all bets are off).

    one-piece goaltender masks.

    Actually woods and irons in normal sizes.

    And here is a "hear:' no artifical noise being blasted into an arena/stadium.
     
  6. king cranium maximus IV

    king cranium maximus IV Active Member

    New teal uniforms.
     
  7. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    The Oakland Raiders being a team to be feared (rather than laughed at).

    The Stanley Cup Finals and NBA Finals finishing before Memorial Day.

    World Series games played in the daytime.

    White players on the All-NBA team (Larry Bird, Bill Walton, John Havlicek, etc.)

    A tennis player winning all four majors in the same calendar year.

    An NBA lottery pick playing his senior season in college.
     
  8. dirtybird

    dirtybird Well-Known Member

    And we are all worse off for that.
     
  9. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    The red, white and blue basketball.

    A pitcher making 40 starts in a year.

    A Jack Tatum signature hit on a WR.

    Stadiums/arenas without luxury suites.

    A 30 game winner in baseball.
     
  10. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    A bowl system that means something.
    NFL season ending before February
    MLB season ending before November
    College coaches who spend most of their careers in the same place (As soon as JoePa retires)
     
  11. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    Players who spend their entire pro careers with one franchise.
     
  12. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    A) I wouldn't even have needed a second guess to figure out who wrote this.

    B) Apparently Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki don't count as being white.
     
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