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| You don't see Notre Dame and USC cancelling the football rivalry. |
They did take a temporary break in that series once. |
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| Posted: 06/12/07 2:54 pm ::: |
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Translation...when college football wasn't nearly the sport it is, in terms of revenue, media exposure, etc.
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| Posted: 06/12/07 2:55 pm ::: |
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Translation...when college football wasn't nearly the sport it is, in terms of revenue, media exposure, etc. |
Kind of like WCBB is now, in other words.
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| Posted: 06/12/07 2:58 pm ::: |
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| Kind of like WCBB is now, in other words. |
The media attention WCBB gets now is MUCH bigger. Unless you forgot television and the Internet weren't quite what they were back in the 1940s...
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| Posted: 06/12/07 3:01 pm ::: |
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| Posted: 06/12/07 3:45 pm ::: |
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| CamrnCrz1974 wrote: |
Translation...when college football wasn't nearly the sport it is, in terms of revenue, media exposure, etc. |
Actually, college football was much bigger in the 1940s than it is today, in terms of relatively popularity. The NFL and pro basketball were pretty much also-rans, while boxing and horse racing were much bigger deals than they are now. College football was #2 after Major League baseball.
That said, I suspect that Notre Dame-USC took the break because of war time travel restrictions, not because they wanted one.
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| Posted: 06/12/07 3:57 pm ::: |
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| Actually, college football was much bigger in the 1940s than it is today, in terms of relatively popularity. The NFL and pro basketball were pretty much also-rans, while boxing and horse racing were much bigger deals than they are now. College football was #2 after Major League baseball. |
Relative popularity? College football wasn't nowhere the business it was then than now in terms of dollars and media exposure. Sports are a much, much bigger part of the national landscape now than they ever where (and yes, that does factor into account many more sports).
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| Posted: 06/12/07 7:29 pm ::: |
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| If UConn and Tennessee were to play at the same time of Army/Navy, I'm watching Army/Navy, flashback to UConn/Tennessee. Army/Navy is a much more important rivalry to me and my family than UConn/Tennessee will ever be.
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| Posted: 06/12/07 7:46 pm ::: |
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| CamrnCrz1974 wrote: |
| You don't see Notre Dame and USC cancelling the football rivalry. |
They did take a temporary break in that series once. |
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WWII have anything to do w/ that?
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| Posted: 06/13/07 12:56 am ::: |
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*resists Alexis Hornbuckle/gun joke* |
have no idea what that means BUT, OK, why? why? why? would you do that to YO? That is a terrible picture of a truly sexy woman.
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| Posted: 06/13/07 4:37 am ::: |
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| Al Gore invented the internet in the 30s |
Any jerk that would post this particular Bush lie doesn't really deserve to know that truth about anythng but here it is for those who really want to know what Al Gore said and did regarding the internet.
http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm
This is one of many summaries of what Al actually did to make this communication possible today.
Anybody who continues to think Dumbya is clever enough to deserve repeating needs their head examined and possibly preserved for posterity.
You certainly don't deserve an explanation from Pat that hasn't aready been given.
Sorry for the interruption but I can't abide this kind of stupid parroting of a stupid lie Same goes for the poster who replied with the laughing emoticons. This wasn't accurate or funny 7 years ago and you're still laughing? Wake up.
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| Posted: 06/13/07 1:58 pm ::: |
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| Orange][Krush wrote: |
| *resists Alexis Hornbuckle/gun joke* |
have no idea what that means BUT, OK, why? why? why? would you do that to YO? That is a terrible picture of a truly sexy woman. |
A while ago, Alexis posted pictures of her holding a gun on her facebook.
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| Posted: 06/13/07 2:36 pm ::: |
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| Joey Nations wrote: |
| Al Gore invented the internet in the 30s |
Any jerk that would post this particular Bush lie doesn't really deserve to know that truth about anythng but here it is for those who really want to know what Al Gore said and did regarding the internet. |
Apparently someone missed the low-flying sarcasm plane...
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| You certainly don't deserve an explanation from Pat that hasn't aready been given. |
And when was that explanation actually given? I don't recall Pat giving one.
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| Posted: 06/13/07 4:25 pm ::: |
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| Actually, college football was much bigger in the 1940s than it is today, in terms of relatively popularity. The NFL and pro basketball were pretty much also-rans, while boxing and horse racing were much bigger deals than they are now. College football was #2 after Major League baseball. |
Relative popularity? College football wasn't nowhere the business it was then than now in terms of dollars and media exposure. Sports are a much, much bigger part of the national landscape now than they ever where (and yes, that does factor into account many more sports). |
I'm guessing that nobody on this board is old enough to have actual memories of what things were like in those days.
That said, I'm not sure that a measure in absolute dollars or total number of games on TV/radio (just radio in those days, of course) tells you how important college football was to U.S. society at the time. Keep in mind that "media" covered a much smaller range in those days. Even in sports, Sports Illustrated wasn't being published yet and The Sporting News covered only baseball (seriously, that was it). Even so, as a proportion of sports news on radio, in print and in newsreels, I'd venture that college football got as much coverage as the NFL gets today (or more), and maybe as much coverage in proportion to all news as well. The pie may have been smaller, but there were a lot fewer players, so each one had a bigger share of that smaller pie than would be the case today.
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