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Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts) Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:35 AM Jan 2018

📺Spanning The Globe📺

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📺Spanning The Globe📺 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 OP

My favorite show, growing up. Dave Starsky Jan 2018 #1

Poor bastard! 😢 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #2

The agony of defeat. Dave Starsky Jan 2018 #3

Cool! 🥊 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #4

Oh hell, a thousand times. Never knew his name. Thanks. trof Jan 2018 #8

Cliff diving from Acapulco hibbing Jan 2018 #5

Yep! I had the good fortune to see it live a couple of times! Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #6

Oh yeah. nt Ilsa Jan 2018 #7

Growing up in the '60s WWS was pleasant break from "The Game of the Week" rurallib Jan 2018 #9

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

1. My favorite show, growing up.

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:14 AM

Jan 2018

I must have watched Vinko Bogataj eat snow about five hundred times.

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts)

2. Poor bastard! 😢

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 03:30 PM

Jan 2018

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

3. The agony of defeat.

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 04:19 PM

Jan 2018

At the 20th Anniversary of Wide World of Sports, Muhammad Ali asked Vinko for his autograph.

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts)

4. Cool! 🥊

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 04:31 PM

Jan 2018

trof

(54,274 posts)

8. Oh hell, a thousand times. Never knew his name. Thanks.

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:00 PM

Jan 2018

hibbing

(10,609 posts)

5. Cliff diving from Acapulco

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 05:48 PM

Jan 2018

Used to watch that back in the day when there were dead periods in sports on tv, unlike today. The cliff diving was always one I would watch.

Peace

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts)

6. Yep! I had the good fortune to see it live a couple of times!

Reply to hibbing (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 05:50 PM

Jan 2018

Ilsa

(64,566 posts)

7. Oh yeah. nt

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 06:56 PM

Jan 2018

rurallib

(64,828 posts)

9. Growing up in the '60s WWS was pleasant break from "The Game of the Week"

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:25 PM

Jan 2018

which was almost always some team from New York. Baseball it was always the Yanks, especially after CBS bought them.

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