Take a trip back in time
We put on our bell bottoms, climbed aboard the Sportspoop wayback machine today and took a trip back to the 1970s, when disco was king and sports such as the NBA Finals were on tape-delay.
A little background first. There’s a tennis tournament going on in France. A big one. There’s a guy named Roger Federer in the tournament. He’s on the brink of tying Pete Sampras’ record of 14 Grand Slam tournament titles. Federer has never won the French Open, but his nemesis Rafa Nadal is out. Federer played Juan Martin del Potro on Friday in the semifinals.
Gratuitous photo of Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor. You're welcome.
OK, so after a busy morning — the life of a Pooper is quite hectic — we got home and discovered that Federer was down two sets to one. Merde! We knew NBC’s coverage started at 10 a.m., so we quickly turned to The Peacock because we didn’t want to miss Federer’s comeback.
Hmmm, Days of our Lives.
OK, it must be on the Tennis Channel.
There’s tennis on there (duh) but it’s a match between Sampras and Patrick Rafter. The senior circuit doesn’t interest us much, although it’s always fun to watch Sampras and root for his eyebrows to finally come together as one.
Confused, we tried ESPN (college baseball) and then ESPN2 (we’re not sure what that was, but it sure wasn’t tennis).
Sadly, we came to the conclusion that despite having more than 1,000 channels, we would not be able to watch history in the making. Here’s the explanation why.
WTF?
Seriously, NBC couldn’t put the damn match on one of the hundreds of other channels it owns? Hell, during the Olympics, we had softball on CNBC, boxing on MSNBC, rowing on USA, beach volleyball on …. beach volleyball on … sorry, totally lost focus there.
Anyway, the fact that the semifinal of a major sporting event was not shown live in the USA is a sure sign the terrorists have won.
We’re going to put on our ABBA records and lay on the shag carpeting. We would put on our mood ring, but it might explode.
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