Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Happy Birthday
To ESPN. It's been 25 years!
(I still hope that Chris Berman will retire the nickname schtick)
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The jubilee reminded us that before ESPN, viewers were sated by Saturday afternoon-only college football, "Wide World of Sports" and three-minute sports reports on the local news...
We didn't know - heck, nobody knew - that ESPN would become a wide world all its own with a manifest destiny to devour all sports and all manner of media. ESPN has become Microsoft...
(I still hope that Chris Berman will retire the nickname schtick)
