705: Time Out
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There's a scene in the film, "I Am Legend," where, okay, civilization is over. The only person left alive in New York is Will Smith, and he is not able to find traces of anyone else alive, anywhere on Earth. And every morning, he wakes up and makes himself breakfast. He puts on videos of "The Today Show," from back before the Earth was destroyed. Just, you know, to make the morning seem normal. One of the sports fans on our staff, Matt, was saying the other day that is exactly what it's like today, watching the constant replays of old sports on television. He's watched the 2018 Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals came 7 from 2013, and old Yankees came from 1978, the Masters last year, the Tiger Woods won. All that glory from back one life was normal, and sports was part of it. Part of the thrill of the Michael Jordan documentary, "The Last Dance," was it wasn't just sports, but a prime time Sunday night sports event that you could look forward to, and you could watch, knowing other fans were watching, and talk about, and share memes, just like the world used to be. These two guys who write about college football, Jason Kirk and Spencer Halbert, this thing that I love about the lack of sports in our worlds today, these are guys who normally spend over 50 hours a week on a slow week, watching games and thinking about sports, who these days, like, hungry men raiding an empty kitchen pantry for any scrap of food, have resorted to watching old college games that they've seen before, and live Korean baseball in the middle of the night, in the German soccer league, Bundesliga. Saturday morning, the choice was between Bundesliga and Cornhole, the American tailgate game, where people throw sandbags at a wooden plank. That's Jason, here's Spencer, explaining what he's come to. I, yesterday, put on for the edification of my kids and their larger education, Ricky Steamboat versus Macho Man Randy Savage at WrestleMania III, and it's largely considered the greatest wrestling match of all time. And I realized that since I'm homeschooling my kids, they had to see the important classics of my culture.
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