re: What was life like in the 1970s as an adult

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Seeing LSU football on TV seemed like a lifetime event. One or two NCAA games a week, all on ABC. Hearing Keith Jackson say the players names was monumental.

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During the summer you only got one baseball game a week on Saturday afternoon -- with Tony Kubek and Joe Garagiola. For a couple of years, we got Monday Night Baseball with Howard Cosell. THAT was all the baseball you got. Almost every New Orleans kid I knew was a Reds fan because they appeared most often on the Saturday game of the week. That and Johnny Bench was the host of The Baseball Bunch on Saturday mornings.

Basketball was even more scarce. They didn't even show playoff games live -- you had to stay up and watch a tape delayed version.

As my parents weren't much into professional sports (other than the Saints), I did most of my sports watching on a 12" B&W television. Almost every kid I know had one in their room. Mine was very similar to this one --



To the youngsters, those are knobs to the right. You had to get up and change the channel manually. Even our parents' "big" 19" color TV didn't have remote until the late 70's-early 80's.