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My Top 10 Things I Miss About ESPN In The 90's
Don’t Get Offended This Is My Damn List (No Particular Order)
2 min readJan 4, 2022
- Stuart Scott- The “IT” factor that sportscasters such as Charles Barkley, Shaq, and Shannon Sharpe have now, Stuart had it first and did it the best. He cared about sports, the athletes, and delivering a stellar show every time he was live on air.
- The Focus Being On The Highlights
- The Classic Catch Phrases From The Sportscasters- Phrases like, “He must be butter, because he’s on a roll” or “He’s as cool as the other side of the pillow” or “Back, back, back, back, back, goneeeeee” will never be forgotten.
- The Signature Dun Dun Dun, Dun Dun Dun Opening Theme Music
- The Repeat Episodes- In an era when there was no internet and no smartphones, your only way of seeing sports highlights was watching them on ESPN. If you missed a highlight on one show, you could catch it on the repeat episode.
- Damn Near Being Late For School Because You Wanted To Stay And Watch ESPN Highlights In The Morning
- The Funny Athlete Commercials
- Not Having All Of These Talking Heads Screaming Back And Forth At Each Other- It gets annoying hearing grown-ass men screaming at each other over who’s opinion is right.
