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re: What was life like in the 1970s as an adult
Posted on 8/27/18 at 2:32 am to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 8/27/18 at 2:32 am to Fewer Kilometers
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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.
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.
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 2:49 am
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Posted on 8/27/18 at 6:01 am to MMauler
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Most every New Orleans kid I knew was a Reds fan because they appeared most often on the Saturday game of the week
That's the exact reason I am a Reds fan today. Grew up watching them as a kid in the late 70's and have stayed the course.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 1:46 pm to MMauler
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Seeing LSU football on TV seemed like a lifetime event
My father cme to the US for grad school in the late 70's. He had a 21" color TV and a new fangled VCR in tow. Back then even Bama or ND would only be on TV 2-3 times a year even if they were top ranked or undefeated. LSU would only be on TV if they played a team like Bama or LSU. Everyone would watch all the bowl games because even game like the Liberty Bowl would have ranked teams.
My father would carry that TV over to his girlfriend sorority house where it would be the official TV on weekends. He had cable in his apartment but it was only 13 channels. He did get Showtime and HBO later. Girls still cooked. Getting a pizza was rare so was a bucket of KFC. It was like Sunday dinner.
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