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<blockquote data-quote="Old South Stands" data-source="post: 269975" data-attributes="member: 1036"><p>It's hard to fathom that in 1990, it was still a big deal to see your game televised nationally. You probably remember Saturday football in the '70s and '80s, where you had only a few choice games on ABC, NBC or CBS... Prior to ESPN and the widespread appearance of cable TV in people's homes, ABC was <em>the</em> sports channel... the very best sports programming and commentators on TV at that time. If your game was on ABC in those days, it was a big, big deal. Most teams didn't get to be on national TV. Many games didn't even get televised in the regional coverage. Each week, people maybe saw Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Penn State, Nebraska, USCw, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, etc., and kind of become fans of one of those teams in addition to Tech. Eventually, it was possible to pick up a regional game down on one of the U-channels on a network like Turner Sports, but generally speaking, if your team wasn't on one of the main three channels, you didn't get see them play. On Saturday, you might have watched USCw play UCLA live on TV, but had to read about Georgia Tech and UGA in the papers the next day to see how that game went. Much different era!</p><p></p><p>A recording of the 1990 Tech-UVA game (with commercials):</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]id=cvXa9KsMpCs;t=7[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old South Stands, post: 269975, member: 1036"] It's hard to fathom that in 1990, it was still a big deal to see your game televised nationally. You probably remember Saturday football in the '70s and '80s, where you had only a few choice games on ABC, NBC or CBS... Prior to ESPN and the widespread appearance of cable TV in people's homes, ABC was [I]the[/I] sports channel... the very best sports programming and commentators on TV at that time. If your game was on ABC in those days, it was a big, big deal. Most teams didn't get to be on national TV. Many games didn't even get televised in the regional coverage. Each week, people maybe saw Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Penn State, Nebraska, USCw, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, etc., and kind of become fans of one of those teams in addition to Tech. Eventually, it was possible to pick up a regional game down on one of the U-channels on a network like Turner Sports, but generally speaking, if your team wasn't on one of the main three channels, you didn't get see them play. On Saturday, you might have watched USCw play UCLA live on TV, but had to read about Georgia Tech and UGA in the papers the next day to see how that game went. Much different era! A recording of the 1990 Tech-UVA game (with commercials): [MEDIA=youtube]id=cvXa9KsMpCs;t=7[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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