Quite: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BGy-BDYs9HE/TNM7QmesbrI/AAAAAAAAAKI/d3zV7T20dP4/s320/BillieJeanKing.jpg
Almost totally off topic, but I remember back when the UConn women first won the national championship there was a sign greeting visitors to Connecticut: Welcome to Connecticut, where men are men and women are champions. Dunno where I read that.
In professional tennis matches, the players change ends every two games, and they take short breaks when they do. These are called changeovers. There’s no break after the first game of the match, but after the third game (which is the second changeover), fifth, and so on, they sit down for a minute or two. King might not have needed a break, but that doesn’t sound like a rule that was set up to help Riggs.
What frustrates me is that we can’t watch this match to decide for ourselves. The “Mothers Day Massacre” earlier in the year, in which Riggs defeated the the top-ranked women’s player Margaret Court, has highlights on YouTube. But despite reports of the Riggs-King match having been watched live by 90 million people (50 million just in the U.S.), the only video I’ve ever seen of it is match point. Someone is jealously guarding the legal rights to the rest of the video, but to what end? I’d pay a couple bucks to see it, but I’m not being presented that as an option.
Please note this is almost a five-year-old thread.
Sigh… Every time I post on an older thread, people tell me this like I don’t already know. If the PTB don’t want so-called “zombie threads”, they can lock them or (one presumes) have them lock automatically after a certain period of idleness. Since they do not do that, I can only assume it’s OK to post on them. (I also regularly reply to IMDb comments that are much older than this thread, and frequently post replies to AV Club comments about TV shows that aired months or years ago, because I have finally gotten to them. I think this is actually a really cool thing about the Internet which email notifications facilitate, but on all of the above forums, there is no shortage of people who think I’m being really weird, or maybe that I’m just confused.)
You’re free to start a new thread … your subject material deserves a fresh look … I agree it seems strange that the video can’t be had on YouTube.
I just prefer to add to existing threads if such exist. 
When it’s a veteran doper reviving an old thread, I always figure they know it’s an old thread. The only time I say anything, is when it’s a new poster, who most likely found the thread through a google search.
I bought it, it was about $29 on DVD. I don’t remember where, but I’m sure it can be found.
It’s also useful for notifying other participants who may read earlier posts and try to reply to them.
Powers &8^]
Seems fine to reply to them, IMO. As I say, on IMDb I frequently reply to posts that are a decade or more old, and often–thanks to email notification–get replies back from the people I’m replying to! [ETA: Besides, if people reply to old comments, won’t they do so before they get to your “this is an old thread” caveat, anyway?]
Una, thanks. I will look for that DVD.
It’s OK, you’re not doing anything wrong. It’s just that we’ve found there is sometimes confusion generated when an older thread is revived. Some people are no longer around to address their previous comments, and some posters here get annoyed to reread an old thread, especially if it’s several pages only to have a dumb “me too” stuck on the end. Adding a new relevant comment shouldn’t be a problem, and yours seemed fine to me.
The notice serves as a reminder of those things.
Yes, and not just to the person who revived the thread - for everyone else who starts posting after that, many of whom IME don’t look too closely at dates.
Una, I have looked all over Amazon, and then more broadly on Google, and I find no hint of this DVD. All I see is a PBS American Masters video about the match as a cultural moment. What I want is the match itself, with all the serves, returns, and rallies. Judging from the trailer, the PBS deal just has still photos.
This puts me to mind of my complaint last year about rightsholders just sitting on content: not letting it go up on YouTube, but not selling or renting it either.
Maybe Irving Berlin’s estate wouldn’t give permission.