Monday, September 7, 2009

ESPN, thirty years

I woke up this morning around 3:30 and went into the study and watched the sports news on ESPN and found out it was the thirtieth anniversary on ESPN. It happened when I was in the first few weeks of law school at Georgia and I don't think I was thinking much about sports, but on the other hand, it was quite a first year for the city of Pittsburgh. The Pirates beat the Orioles in the World Series. The Steelers beat the Rams in the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, Mario Lemeux was probably just a teenager otherwise the Penguins might have won the Stanley Cup. That would have been quite a year for the city of Pittsburgh.

It was only a couple of years until ESPN would take over sports from CBS and ABC and NBC. I do remember the advent of MTV and VH1 and all of the miniature dramas they played with the music in the 80's. Then there was Miami Vice, which looked a lot like a music video. Sometimes you need to go back and look at some of those shows and realize how lame some of those shows were when they were played. Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas. Fortunately, Edward James Olmos seemed to rise above his beginnings as the lieutenant on Miami Vice.

Well, it has been a long day and a long weekend. It is time to stop this reminicing and go to bed.

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