SPORTSPAGER???
- Thread starter jmizeus
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opcorn2
Reminds me of a dial in service the local newspaper used to run in the mid 1990s.
You would dial in to hear recorded sports scores that you could access 24 hours a day!
It was just a guy reading the scores, looped over and over.
You would dial in to hear recorded sports scores that you could access 24 hours a day!
It was just a guy reading the scores, looped over and over.
What a great service that was. Be out to dinner, running to a pay phone to call, have to listen to all sorts of BS ads for touts.
Worst was during season when it was NBA/NCAAF/NHL all in one, and you were betting some late hockey game, you'd have to wait til they went through most of day's scores since hockey was so low in the rotation # system.
Great memories...guy would go over the lines and say "the following information is for news matter only"
Remember calling once, and having to wait for a later NCAAF game, and I said something like "jesus, I just want the USC/UCLA score" and the voice literally saying "Sorry, I have to read all the other scores first" Bizarre.
I'm not sure the young guys know how well they have it these days. I can remember paying .95 a minute to get updated scores. Finding the late games like Hawaii was sometimes impossible.
The good thing about those days is that most of my locals used the Dallas Morning News and then lines in there on Saturday mornings.
I lived for Weds when the football weekly handicapping newspaper/magazine would hit the stands.(I can't remember the name of it but damn it was my favorite thing to go get)
I'm pretty young, as far as these things go, but I guess I was bound to have my first "back in my day... something something... 5 miles in the snow... something something" moment eventually.
1800-555-TELL was free and the best
you would call in and yell sports, then football, then idaho st.
you would call in and yell sports, then football, then idaho st.
This is the one I always used.
You would say "florida state"
And the fuckin thing would come back and say
"Oregon st"
No, "flordia state"
"Weber state"
And eventualy would be right.
"Currently, the florida state noles are beating the ncst wolfpack 16 to 10"
Its still available. I use it when have no internet service in mountains but just enough cell reception
888-247-2425 now
"Florida fuckin state"
Currently, florida state is beating ncst 16-10
