1979
Annie Roboff is on my list of people to kiss.
Also on this list are Tina Fey, Jessica Biel and Shia LeBeouf (don’t ask).
But why pick Annie? There’s one simple answer: She created the Sportscenter theme song.
If you smoke, hearing this song is like having that first cigarette of the day. If you work out, it’s like that first burn. If you’re a lover, it’s like the first – well you get the picture.
Inside this sports news program, anchors go over the daily action in sports and usually discuss topics that have been lingering like injuries and player drama.
But it’s so much more than that.
It’s the simple yet funny narrations to the highlights.
It’s the comfort of seeing the stars still shining.
It’s the sick play that you missed from another game.
It began 30 years ago and has aired over 30,000 unique shows and has been shown more than any program in TV history.
And to this day Sportscenter is what makeup is for girls.
It can be known as a real-life soap opera, they bring you the drama around all the major leagues and college sports like a soap has different storylines.
It can be known as a light-hearted comedy as the anchors poke fun at professional athletes and contend against each other with quips and jokes.
The list goes on and on but one of its signature highlights that no one, whether you like sports or hate ‘em, can rip on: the “Top 10”.
They countdown the top 10 best plays of the day from all around the country and bring it to you in five minutes or less as the show wraps up.
Who could ask for more?
Once the introduction music hits no matter what mood you’re feeling it all seems to go away as the crane lowers onto the two always-happy anchors.
One of the best parts about Sportscenter are the commercials.
They sometimes mock and let you into a pretend world if the athletes actually worked with your favorite anchors. Here are a couple good ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZooFJBks9YU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSuePNS3tYY&feature=related
The anchors bring a human side to reporting and most of the time make your local sports anchors look like jokes as they struggle to figure out which cliché to use … or does Del Rodgers really just suck?
Either way Sportscenter is a great program because it’s almost always on when nothing else good is on and there is that therapeutic melody that let’s you know that everything will in fact be OK.
Da da da, da da da.
2008
1 comment:
As a casual sports fan, I used to make a habit of catching the show when Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann were on. I haven't watched it much since then. It seemed to drop in humor after Olbermann left. Perhaps I should give it another look see.
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