Does anyone actually watch these airings of old sporting events?

I personally like to watch some archive events even when I know the outcome. For example I recently watched some EURO 2000 matches, only to feel that atmosphere, experience the history on myself, I can said. I agree with you, it's nice to actually feel the emotions of live events, but there is plenty of other reasons why to try some past ones . It's just individual case.

 

Maybe I might watch if it was a truly classic game but I don't care so much about sports nowadays. I do listen to some sports podcasts still but not as much as I used to.

 

Nopes! To even see a small soccer gif opens a gaping wound in my chest. I miss playing and being active.

 

Yeah I will watch classic hockey games every once and a while. Honestly I don't watch today's hockey because I can't stand what they did to the game.

The NHL just seems like a cheap gimmick to me now. Hockey highlights constantly are showing what sportscasters call the alley oop and let me tell you if I wanted to see that I would just watch basketball.

Modern sports now bend over backwards for the casual fans and usually what casual fans want are high goal scoring games. So the NHL has changed certain rules and started calling more penalties to try and increase scoring. It's the equivalent of the NBA with their endless unnecessary foul calls.

I would rather watch a lower scoring game rather then changing the rules so there's more goals and that's why I will watch classic hockey and sports in general if I watch any.

On top of that they have totally wussified the sport which doesn't sit well with me at all either.

 

Yeah I hate that they took the two line pass rule. I used to love watching how all the teams had to make creative short passes and skate the puck to get the puck in the offensive zone. Now all they do is shoot it up ice and then tip the puck in it's very tedious and boring to watch.

On top of that I lost what little interest I had in the nhl when the fired Don Cherry. The way the did it was extremely disrespectful (doing it on remembrance day) and just turned me off the sport entirely. Honestly getting tired of all the Anti White propaganda in all North American sports leagues I think it's just better if I stay away from them.

Honestly getting tired of Anti white culture in general.

 

Old time hockey they used to call it war on ice.

 

Yeah that game was policed by the players themselves. I like how back in those days if a player was doing cheap shots the refs would stand back as that guy got pummeled. Now the refs protects players like that which is why cheap shots keep happening.

Bob Probert was not just a goon he actaully put the puck in the net pretty regularly.

 

I can't watch it I don't have netflix anymore lol not a big fan of their programming. Yeah I did hear he was a fighter though but I don't know what to believe and what not to believe. You have to remember being the toughest guy in the NHL was a curse in a sense.

Not only would every hockey tough guy coming into the league would want to test his fighting skills against Bob but I would imagine every drunken up bar hopper would also want to prove themselves against him. In other words I think he would have been constantly harassed to fight whenever he was out and maybe that's why he did such things.

Derek Boogard had the exact same problem.