Just having the opportunity to watch the event was a treat in and of itself!
Ali - Frazier / Championship Fights were often held on Friday nights and televised 'closed circuit' Friday nights.
Those who did not have the ability or resources to watch the event live were thrilled to watch it tape delayed on programs such as ABC's Wide World of Sports.
If you were a baseball fan, you followed your team every evening listening to a transistor radio and perusing an actual print newspaper for details of your team and the rest of the league.
The appetite and void of sports programming during that time period has led us to the oversaturation of sports programming that we have available today.
One of the plusses to that thirst for TV sports programming is that we all actually played sports. Particularly the boys....
