Remember those days when ESPN would replay the NFL Films Superbowl highlights again and again and again the week leading up to that year’s big game? Seems like just a few years ago. It was as soothing as the 24 hours of “A Christmas Story”. Ah, for the good old days of watching Steve Sabol and his then non-graying hair. I could watch William Perry rumble into the endzone over and over.
Don’t count on it happening ever again.
Despite the WWL family having 206 different channels, only one will show what us nostalgiaholics love, said NFL Films Superbowl recap. In fact, ESPN has none of the half-hour game stories; ESPN 2 has a few of them during the week, then a 10-hour block from Saturday into Sunday morning. But guess which WWL net has zero of them?
ESPN Classic. You know, the channel that shows, um, ya, um, stuff like Superbowl replays.
What will ESPN Classic show the days leading up to the Superbowl? Yes, things like the Tom Brady SportsCentury. And other Superbowl-related programming like … the Gordon’s 9-Ball championship? American Gladiators? Great Outdoors Games highlights? Poker?!?!
There is an upside: For us Bengals fans, that awful Superbowl 23 highlight will only air one time. Make sure you avoid Saturday from 4-4:30 pm … unless you’re watching ESPN Classic, in which case you watch the dynamic replay of Notre Dame vs. DePaul basketball.
And honestly, WWL, no Superbowl could ever top the Irish and Demons on the court.
Try the NFL Network. They’ve been airing the entire ballgames the past week or so, which is a lot better (to me anyway) than the encapsulated highlight versions we’ve seen repeated forever on ESPN. I got to watch all of Super Bowl III, and man, football was just a lot different back then.