There was a time when hockey didn't have advertising on the boards or on the ice. The NFL didn't take TV time-outs, and the play of the game wasn't brought to you by Viagra. When ever I think about old time hockey, or Bill Mazeroski's walk off home run I think of Al Pacino's quote in Any Given Sunday "It's TV, it changed everything, changed the way we think forever. I mean the first time they stopped the game to cut away to some fucking commercial that was the end of it. Because it was our concentration that mattered, not theirs, not some fruitcake selling cereal."
I love to listen to the old radio and tv calls from classic games. I love watching old highlights. It reminds me of a simpler time, a time when sports were pure and atheletes didn't have twitter accounts.
Kirk Gibson's Homerun
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