Termyn8or
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Back when I was into it I was THE HOME of Monday night football. It was on ABC and they mixed the sound right. Crowd noise from the back speakers. My system could segregate this, but then I would also be able to switch the front channels independently to the local radio staion. Radio announcers are so much better, and with five or six hundred watts under the hood you could go to the john and not miss a thing. Hook all that up to an old Advent projection TV and you are the hit of the hood. If you don't remember those Advents, not a one of them really worked right, except mine. Near perfect geometry and convergence. Took me years to get it this way as well, it was not an easy restoration.
The sound, as I mentioned was awesome, and in the back speakers you would hear what you think you would never hear out of the crowd. All the cussing and shit that was really transmitted, but not heard by most was very apparent on my system. "Tommy, how many beers do we need ?.... ...... ...... OK gimme a hundred bucks and I'll be right back". "Sacked again, when are they going to get rid of that lanky MF ?". Shit like this. I also used to make boneless chicken wings, which are basically a breast cut into thin wedges, fried and spiced and supplied with sauce of course. The beer also flowed quite freely.
Yes, my house was THE place to be for Monday night football. I went sour on the whole idea of spectator sports at one time, but I have to admit, those nights were a good time. Movies too. My buddy owned a video tape rental store and I had a special contract with him, Movie is $0 a day, due back whenever I am good and ready, unless he got down to his last copy, in which case it was bring it back now. You can take it back tomorrow I just need it today. In fact he would bring it, as soon as he was assured of having a copy in stock to rent. See it wasn't the two bucks a night that was important to the business, it was having the hot movies available. That was what he needed to sustain the business. Other than that, I had Days of Thunder for months, a few Star Trek movies and all that, and a few of them simply never got returned. Nobody cares, unless he needs it and doesn't have it. I could get new releases under almost the same "contract" but he generally wanted those back alot sooner i.e. not a year. LOL.
One of the things that kept me into football for a time was that it was one game, do or die. Win or lose,,,,, TODAY. Baseball and basketball play sets of games, not in football and as the saying goes "On any given Sunday". But when I lost the illusion that "my team" was "my team" I lost interest. Not one fucking player was from Cleveland, the owner of the team was not from Cleveland, so how is that a Cleveland team ?
So yes I will now have a look at a football game, but I won't be hooting and hollering like the old days. It has been sufficiently delustered for me. Of course I would have to plug the TV in. I don't feel like reaching back there, do you ?
Just saying, I didn't just reject spectator sports, I reject the media period. Nothing personal. I have however expressed dismay for many years the fact that in this society, one can get paid more to play than to work.
I also have some memorabilia from the old Browns, the Art Modell Browns, not their replacement, the Al Learner Browns. Anyone want to buy it ? I have too much stuff !
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