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Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:01 pm to Purple Spoon
That's true.
But there is a reason it got left out of the BCS...
It was DOA...long before that.
1978 was the epicenter of last true greatness.
1984 was still important
From 1995 on...total joke. #21 USC vs. unranked Texas Tech.
But there is a reason it got left out of the BCS...
It was DOA...long before that.
1978 was the epicenter of last true greatness.
1984 was still important
From 1995 on...total joke. #21 USC vs. unranked Texas Tech.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:16 pm to sms151t
It's not the world series. That's rediculous.
It's the Indy 500. Come on guys.
It's the Indy 500. Come on guys.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:19 pm to sms151t
Boxing heavyweight bouts
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:19 pm to sms151t
U.S. Open in tennis. Also Wimbeldon.
I remember as a kid watching Jimmy Connors and McEnroe and everyone cared. Bjorn Borg. Ivan Lendl. Even women's tennis was huge.
Indy 500 was a big deal. The Kentucky Derby was big. No one pays attention now.
Heavyweight boxing matches were huge. I have no idea who the champion is now. I always used to know.
I remember as a kid watching Jimmy Connors and McEnroe and everyone cared. Bjorn Borg. Ivan Lendl. Even women's tennis was huge.
Indy 500 was a big deal. The Kentucky Derby was big. No one pays attention now.
Heavyweight boxing matches were huge. I have no idea who the champion is now. I always used to know.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:07 pm to BeachDude022
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Stanley Cup?
NHL has more fans now thanks to the recent playoffs. That could probably be said every offseason.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:11 pm to AlaTiger
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Indy 500 was a big deal.
Big, big deal. I remember in the 80's.
I wrote a report on Rick Mears in 3rd grade...and I wasn't coming from a racing part of the country.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:28 pm to Zamoro10
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From 1995 on...total joke. #21 USC vs. unranked Texas Tech.
But that ties in to the SWC issue. 95 was the last year of the SWC and typically it would have been Texas v USC in the Cotton Bowl following that season as Texas won the conference that year. But that was during the Bowl Alliance Years and Texas was sent to the Sugar to play VT. Since the new Big 12 was tied to the Fiesta starting with the 96 season, the Cotton had no conference champion as its anchor…major reason it got left out. Check out the match ups of the early 90s…Miami, ND, Fla St (all were major players at that time) to name a few played in it and all of the match ups featured top 10 teams up to that 95 season.
This post was edited on 9/12/14 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:30 pm to Zamoro10
Wimbledon
Indy 500
Tour de France
For me, the NCAA Basketball Tournament- havent watched it in years. Used to get excited about it in the 80's and 90's.
Indy 500
Tour de France
For me, the NCAA Basketball Tournament- havent watched it in years. Used to get excited about it in the 80's and 90's.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:32 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
Good point.
But it really had lost it's luster by the mid-80's.
So many of the SWC teams had fallen off the map and it was just Texas.
And even by mid-80's that was the last of a great big game matchup.
But it really had lost it's luster by the mid-80's.
So many of the SWC teams had fallen off the map and it was just Texas.
And even by mid-80's that was the last of a great big game matchup.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:33 pm to Purple Spoon
Olympics. No one pays attention anymore. End of the cold war made them irrelevant.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 11:34 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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Wimbledon
I sort of agree...it used to feel bigger. You'd wake up for breakfast at Wimbledon. Mac, Borg, Becker.
But I think this is just a case of more options.
It's still Wimbledon and still big...and one of the greatest (if not the greatest match) in Wimbledon history happened recently with Rafa and Fed.
Posted on 9/13/14 at 12:00 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Boxing heavyweight bouts
This. I think the last one I watched was Lennox Lewis vs Tyson.
Posted on 9/13/14 at 1:41 am to sms151t
Heavy Weight boxing 
Posted on 9/13/14 at 5:05 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Boxing heavyweight bouts
Good one. I love boxing, but the klitschko strangle hold on the division now, following years of underwhelming matchup before they took over, has killed heavyweight boxing.
Posted on 9/13/14 at 7:43 am to sms151t
Boxing.
You used to have huge fights on national TV. Promoters saw that pay-per-view could be more lucrative (and it was) but as a result the general public slowly started to lose interest.
You used to have huge fights on national TV. Promoters saw that pay-per-view could be more lucrative (and it was) but as a result the general public slowly started to lose interest.
Posted on 9/13/14 at 8:33 am to Zamoro10
I thought Rosè bowl when i saw this thread. Until the BCS you had no chance of SEC or Big XII teams playing in it and the PAC 10 and big 10 have been slowly deteriorating the last 20 years
Posted on 9/13/14 at 8:55 am to fleaux
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the PAC 10 and big 10 have been slowly deteriorating the last 20 years
Uh, USC and Oregon and Stanford and before that Washington and Arizona State.
Since 1996 - The PAC-12 has had a team finish in the Top 5 of the final AP rankings EVERY YEAR (except for '99, '09 and '13.)
And in 2010 just recently the Pac-12 had TWO teams finish in the Top 5.
Posted on 9/13/14 at 9:06 am to Zamoro10
i meant the conference as a whole , not just the top couple of teams..... Its easy to win a bunch in games in conference and have a great record when most of it sucks
Posted on 9/13/14 at 10:08 am to fleaux
horse racing is still popular as it was as long as there are decent horses running. There were over 150k people at this year's kentucky derby. It never was the country's past time or anything.
the world series for my money has taken a nose dive. I used to really get into it. now i could not even name the last 3 teams that won the WS
the world series for my money has taken a nose dive. I used to really get into it. now i could not even name the last 3 teams that won the WS
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