OT: World Champions Cincinnati Reds vs Super Bowl Champions Pittsburgh Steelers in 1976. Before watching this, make your prediction.
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CNN's Don Lemon, of all people, disagreed in an on-air segment that the USWNT should get paid as much as the USMNT brings in more revenue and because men's soccer is a more popular sport. The female co-host argued that its only more popular because male executives have been televising male sports over female sports for decades. I guess the thought process is if women's sports were televised in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, etc, they would be as ingrained in the American sports culture. Whether you agree with that or not, the fact that either ABC, NBC, or CBS televised an NFL team swimming against an MLB team, probably at 2:00 PM on a Saturday gives that argument some fuel. How the eff did that make one of the 3 channels we had back then? There was NOTHING else?
Going to go with the Steelers and Lynn Swann. I think his gracefulness with his body will benefit him in the pool.
These shows were usually the lead in to watching alpine skiing or a championship boxing match. So many good fights were on network television back then. Now there are none.
BTW USWNT just thrashed NZ in two friendlies. The Women's World Cup is coming up in Aussie and NZ.
As a kid I loved these shows. These, and the Battle Of The Network Stars. “The Fonz is up against Barbarino!” Better than some dumb adult detective show like Barnaby Jones.
Sure you were watching for Fonz against Barbarino. More like Farrah vs Adrienne Barbeau.
Ok, yeah that’s true. That’s why I rarely ended up watching the entire show.
