Australian Rules Football on ESPN2. I miss the early days of ESPN when you could find all sorts of sports like this being aired.

What is the Irish game where they hit the ball with the stick. Hurling? Or something like that?

I remember there used to be a local sports channel that would play Aussi Rules Football every weekend. They also had a show with the 4 or 5 old sportswriters that sat around a table talking sports. When the show would go to commercial it had a typewriter sound effect. Kinda cheesy and way outdated for the mid-90s.

Can't remember the name of the channel. Wnet away to college and when I came back after the first semester, the channel was gone. They must have depended on me watching to stay alive...

Thought this was going to be about a new Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase movie.

I remember there used to be a local sports channel that would play Aussi Rules Football every weekend. They also had a show with the 4 or 5 old sportswriters that sat around a table talking sports. When the show would go to commercial it had a typewriter sound effect. Kinda cheesy and way outdated for the mid-90s.

Can't remember the name of the channel. Wnet away to college and when I came back after the first semester, the channel was gone. They must have depended on me watching to stay alive...

Not sure if you grew up in the Chicago area, but this sounds a lot like 'The Sports Writers on TV' show that ran on the old SportsChannel back in the day...

Thought this was going to be about a new Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase movie.

You would!

You would!

Haha! True, very true.

That was the Sports Reporters show. It ran on ESPN for a while.

Not sure if you grew up in the Chicago area, but this sounds a lot like 'The Sports Writers on TV' show that ran on the old SportsChannel back in the day...

Philly, but that sounds like it. A little searching shows SportsChannel Philadelphia closed on in 1997, which would be around the right time (that would have been my sophmore year).

The Aussie rules game from last night turned out to be really good. Richmond made a hell of a comeback to beat Sydney. I loved watching it.

They came back to win? I turned it off when it looked like it was becoming a route.

Philly, but that sounds like it. A little searching shows SportsChannel Philadelphia closed on in 1997, which would be around the right time (that would have been my sophmore year).

They may have had something like that on PRISM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28TV_network%29) too.

They came back to win? I turned it off when it looked like it was becoming a route.
Yeah, Richmond somehow managed to come back. Impressive stuff.

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All joking aside, that was a big comeback win for Richmond, considering they sit in 2nd to last place and new coach Damien Hardwick certainly doesn't want to start off his Richmond career with a wooden spoon.