Is it me, or did the racquetball players from back in the day hustled more? Maybe if we switch to a smaller racket like they had, the game might get more exciting? Smaller racket forces us to move more? 🐺 🐺 🐺
Does anyone know what's the deal with the other semi final being shown 2 weeks later? Was this common? Wouldn't the actual match have happened the same day or next day?
Yeah, I thought that was weird too. It must have something to do with the TV's time slots. I'm sure both semis would have been played the next day. Nobody's going to hang out in Winnipeg for 2 weeks for the next match.
I love Charlie Brumfield, but I also was shocked that he would say that, and more shocked that no one said anything. I like to think he wouldn't say anything like that today.
It was 43 years ago. It was on Canadian cable TV. It was re-aired on US cable TV on a tiny ESPN that could only show obscure 3rd tier sports and often at 3am. It was Charlie Brumfield, who was more colorful than John McEnroe. Standards were much different, and they often said worse on SNL and network sitcoms. Ref: All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons.
@@realSamAndrew Well said. My dad in San Diego, CA actually recorded at least some of these matches for me on his VCR. I showed that tape to my university racquetball classes for years, who laughed at the clothing, and somehow I lost that tape. I was so excited when these CBC matches turned up on the tapes that Karin Walton loaned me. I've also compared Brumfield to McEnroe, both former champions who had a talent for colorful commentating. Someone else made the comment to me that back at that time white men could say anything and get away with it. In the Christmas Classic which I will post soon, the interviewer introduces Lynn Adams as "this little lady" beside me. I could tell she had to restrain herself not to react.
@@classicracquetballv1501 Mad Men is set 20 years earlier, but it is one long running list of cultural "gaffes". Even the state song of Kentucky, which they sing before every Kentucky Derby, had to be revised because of certain innocent references which would be offensive today, even with context.
Folks I’m not arguing over if times have changed and morals of yesterday vs now. But that was inflammatory then and now. I’m pretty confident we are all white guys. And that alone means no real perspective. All good, but Brumfeld was inflammatory and wrong. Period
Excellent! Thank you for posting.
They ralley at 21.20 was crazy!
That is amazing! 21:20 to the end is the best part of the video.
Is it me, or did the racquetball players from back in the day hustled more? Maybe if we switch to a smaller racket like they had, the game might get more exciting? Smaller racket forces us to move more? 🐺 🐺 🐺
Brumfield was the best !!! LOVE Strandemo as "The Rat" !!!
Does anyone know what's the deal with the other semi final being shown 2 weeks later? Was this common? Wouldn't the actual match have happened the same day or next day?
Yeah, I thought that was weird too. It must have something to do with the TV's time slots. I'm sure both semis would have been played the next day. Nobody's going to hang out in Winnipeg for 2 weeks for the next match.
Racquetballs greatest generation. Have the Yellen-Peck semi ?????
Seriously???? More confusing than Father’s Day in Harlem!?
Seriously? I sure hope this guys not in broadcasting?
I love Charlie Brumfield, but I also was shocked that he would say that, and more shocked that no one said anything. I like to think he wouldn't say anything like that today.
It was 43 years ago.
It was on Canadian cable TV.
It was re-aired on US cable TV on a tiny ESPN that could only show obscure 3rd tier sports and often at 3am.
It was Charlie Brumfield, who was more colorful than John McEnroe.
Standards were much different, and they often said worse on SNL and network sitcoms. Ref: All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons.
@@realSamAndrew Well said. My dad in San Diego, CA actually recorded at least some of these matches for me on his VCR. I showed that tape to my university racquetball classes for years, who laughed at the clothing, and somehow I lost that tape. I was so excited when these CBC matches turned up on the tapes that Karin Walton loaned me. I've also compared Brumfield to McEnroe, both former champions who had a talent for colorful commentating. Someone else made the comment to me that back at that time white men could say anything and get away with it. In the Christmas Classic which I will post soon, the interviewer introduces Lynn Adams as "this little lady" beside me. I could tell she had to restrain herself not to react.
@@classicracquetballv1501 Mad Men is set 20 years earlier, but it is one long running list of cultural "gaffes".
Even the state song of Kentucky, which they sing before every Kentucky Derby, had to be revised because of certain innocent references which would be offensive today, even with context.
Folks I’m not arguing over if times have changed and morals of yesterday vs now. But that was inflammatory then and now. I’m pretty confident we are all white guys. And that alone means no real perspective. All good, but Brumfeld was inflammatory and wrong. Period