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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Even if you're not a Celtic fan, like me, you gotta love Johnny Most's call on this play.

Here's my all time favorite Johnny Most call, he's easily identified by is raspy voice.

https://youtu.be/6v0t1aULRa0

[rbruno]

Being from Boston and a teenager in the 60's I had many years of Johnny Most "high above courtside" being the homers homer of broadcast announcers. The other teams were all full of villians and the Celtics could do no wrong. When they played poorly or were getting outplayed "they just couldn't get it going".
My favorite is the 86 championship against Houston when Ralph Sampson punched Jerry Sichtig. Most's take was... "And Sampson started the whole damn thing, Ralph Sampson is a gutless big guy that picks on the little guys"
Enough said John

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by rbruno

Being from Boston and a teenager in the 60's I had many years of Johnny Most "high above courtside" being the homers homer of broadcast announcers.

You were lucky.

I was also a teenager in the 1960's, a big Celtic fan (loved the team oriented approach, the fast break attack, and Bill Russell was my favorite player), but I lived in the New Haven / Hartford market and only saw them on television on Sunday's ABC Game of the Week.

No cable television back then. No ESPN, TNT, etc. No regional sports networks (I see the Celtics, Red Sox, and Bruins all the time on television today). No internet with streaming games. Most of my Celtics information came from the sports section of the New Haven Register, my subscription to Sports Illustrated, and whatever the antenna on my roof sucked in, ABC's Game of the Week came via WNHC-TV Channel 8, ABC's New Haven / Hartford affiliate.

When the Celtics would play the Knicks we could watch them on WOR-TV Channel 9 out of New York City, but the picture was always fuzzy. Because of the availability of Knicks games on television I actually became a Knicks fan (Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett, Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley), except when they played the Celtics.

Young'uns today don't realize how tough it was for us to see out of town games on television, especially those of us living in a small markets without major league teams.

Unless I wanted to watch the Yankees (WPIX Channel 11) or the Mets (WOR-TV Channel 9) both broadcasting from New York City, both with fuzzy pictures, my favorite show was the national broadcast of the NBC Baseball Game of the Week.

On Saturdays we would watch professional bowling which was a lead-in to ABC's Wide World of Sports. Anybody beside me remember Pete Weber and Earl Anthony?

https://youtu.be/P2AZH4FeGsc

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Anybody beside me remember Pete Weber and Earl Anthony?

https://youtu.be/P2AZH4FeGsc

Pretty sure it was Dick Weber...and I watched Gordon Soli...Pro Wrestling on Saturdays. I think it was WTIC...CBS affiliate out of Hartford

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

Pretty sure it was Dick Weber...and I watched Gordon Soli...Pro Wrestling on Saturdays. I think it was WTIC...CBS affiliate out of Hartford

Pete Weber and his father, Dick, were the first father-and-son combination to ever both earn a title on the PBA Tour.

WTIC is now WFSB, and was and is the CBS affiliate in the Hartford market. WTIC used to be owned by the Travelers Insurance Company, thus TIC.

[ChuckS]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Young'uns today don't realize how tough it was for us to see out of town games on television, especially those of us living in a small markets without major league teams.

I lived on Long Island in the early 70s, and the only way to watch home Jets or Giants games was Channel 3 (New Haven) or Channel 20 (UHF-Waterbury) - I may not have the cities correct. The famous Honeymooners Episode with Ralph directing Norton around the apartment with the antenna - that was our house every Sunday! And only away Knicks/Rangers games on Channel 9. The first home game I went to, when I saw the home white jerseys, was quite an experience!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by ChuckS

The famous Honeymooners Episode with Ralph directing Norton around the apartment with the antenna - that was our house every Sunday!

My Dad would be on the roof changing the direction of the antennae all the time. And when we watched the "portable" television (most televisions back then were like big pieces of furniture and were not very portable) we would crinkle aluminum foil (for some reason we called it "tin" foil) around the "rabbit ears" antennae to improve the reception.

As an adult, when I moved to my current location, our television reception got worse. When I lived in the New Haven area as a youth, we got reception from both the New York stations (a little fuzzy, but we could watch it), and the Connecticut stations. At my new location, between two high mountains, we just got the four Connecticut stations, affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. Four choices, period. No independent stations.

Then one Sunday afternoon, about forty years ago, the neighborhood heard that the cable television, new to our town, salesman was coming down our street. We were all waiting for him our front stoops, with checkbooks in hand, and he made a lot of easy sales in my neighborhood.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by ChuckS

The famous Honeymooners Episode with Ralph directing Norton around the apartment with the antenna ...

I couldn't find the "television" episode (at least not a short version suitable for posting), but I did find a short video of one of my favorite episodes, the Chef of the Future ("Can it core a apple?") episode.

Classic. Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/W_dE9aY0phE