Papa Tiger loves to watch sports on TV. He’s quite ecumenical – loves everything from sumo to Aussie rules football. You name it, he watches it.
But this afternoon he was watching a PUTT-PUTT competition on TV.
Good grief, if this is what having 79 gazillion cable channels means, I think the bottom of the barrel has been scraped. Surely there is NO sport dumber than putt-putt to televise!
Mundane and pointless, yes, but I think I’d rather just watch the grass grow! (Which around here is practically visible, it grows so fast!)
You’ve obviously never seen ESPN2. World’s Strongest Man competitions are one thing, but the reruns from the 70s are quite another (yes, I watch them anyway)…
He watches both of those, too. What’s with you guys and anything they call sports on TV, anyway? Surely there’s something more time-wasting you can find to do?
Lately (including last night), they seem to show a lot of trick-shot pool on ESPN2. It always seems to be this one biggish, gray-haired guy with a Southern accent against an ever-changing opponent.
I saw Putt-Putt Skins before, years ago – isn’t that the one where they have to make the hole in one stroke (if you can call it that with Putt-Putt)? In fact, years ago when I was miniature golfing, some man was there with a real putter and a real ball and looking quite serious.
I was somewhat taken aback by that rerun of the WSM competition from 1977, but I watched it anyway. I was pleasantly surprised by the presence of attractive clothes worn by the women at the “girl-lift” rather than the two Band-Aids™ and a string they would probably wear nowadays.
Didn’t they televise marbles (ringer) quite a while back? I wouldn’t be surprised to see it televised again one of these days; can you imagine the commentary?
Well, before ESPN became the official name, it was known as the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
I think they meant for other things to be shown since the beginning, and they’ve been pretty consistent in that regard since they started broadcasting.
You mean like World War III breaking out? They MIGHT interrupt a track meet or lacrosse game to mention it, but only if the star athletes were going to be drafted!
