[Other Sport] RIP Dickie Davies

[Billy in Bristol]

First there was David Coleman (1958 - 1968 BBC) then came Dickie (1968 to 1985 ITV). In these days of live sport and unlimited channels it's unbelievable that back then we had a few hours on a Saturday. Still cant work out how the wrestling always ended at 4:34 in time for the results at 4:40 (10 min 1/2 time back then as well).
To me he was the voice of sport.

Don't know if you are being serious...but 4.34pm was all in the wrestlers script for that afternoon...I had a student job in Bristol doing the time keeping hence ITK

 

[Official Old Man]

Don't know if you are being serious...but 4.34pm was all in the wrestlers script for that afternoon...I had a student job in Bristol doing the time keeping hence ITK

So it was live but Big Daddy had to win at a certain time, very pro.

 

[Billy in Bristol]

So it was live but Big Daddy had to win at a certain time, very pro.

I do feel very guilty for spoiling your youthful sporting memories...

 

[Flagship]

Also remember scrambling, speedway and hill climbing were regular sports on his shows. Always seemed that the competitors got totally caked in mud.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

RIP

So much better than todays offerings.

 

[drew]

RIP

So much better than todays offerings.

Part of my youth growing up (albeit tended to be more Grandstand than WoS) but do you really think fake wrestling interspersed with 4 or 5 horse races is better than what you can watch now?

 

[studio150]

As a youngster when the Albion were away. it was always an afternoon switching between Grandstand and World Of Sport depending on what sport they were showing at that particular time.

Fond memories

RIP

 

[Seagull58]

WoS the first UK programme to show NFL games - must have been the early 1980's as the Steelers were winning everything!

Channel 4 showed the NFL for an hour every Sunday afternoon from 80 or 81 onwards

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I also loved BBC Sportsnight on Wednesday’s for boxing and football, and ITV aired highlights of magical European club games with the likes of Gerald Sinstadt commentating.

Dynamo Dresden, St Etienne, Grasshopper's.

For some reason I remember AEK Athens were big around this time as well

 

[Icy Gull]

RIP, what a run but I’m not sure how he got to be 94 if he was born in 1933

 

[portlock seagull]

A great anchorman.

 

[Weststander]

Ice speedway from communist Poland rings a bell too.

 

[Weststander]

Channel 4 showed the NFL for an hour every Sunday afternoon from 80 or 81 onwards

Late 82 when it was launched?

Was it C4 that aired the Super Bowl live from the mid 80’s, for example the Chicago Bears with The Fridge in 1988?

 

[NooBHA]

I thought he was already dead years ago.
Ooooops

I don't even remember what his voice sounded like because I only remember him from seeing him through the window of the Radio Rentals TV shop in Motherwell where everyone used to gather after leaving Fir Park so that they could see the results of all the other matches coming in. Back in the days when everyone kicked off and finished at the same time.

Except of course Torquay United. They always seemed to be an evening kick off. Never ever did find out why they played in the evening back then ?

Answers on a postcard to ...........

 

[jakarta]

Channel 4 showed the NFL for an hour every Sunday afternoon from 80 or 81 onwards

Oops must have been mid seventies if the Steelers were winning everything. I remember poor old Dickie trying to explain the rules one week...

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

I also loved BBC Sportsnight on Wednesday’s for boxing and football, and ITV aired highlights of magical European club games with the likes of Gerald Sinstadt commentating.

Dynamo Dresden, St Etienne, Grasshopper's.

Sportsnight was a great programme - maybe Sportsnight with Coleman at some point?? I think the wonderful Harry Carpenter is worth a mention too but yes RIP Dickie Davies - another stalwart of Saturday afternoons for us of a certain age!

 

[Seagull58]

Late 82 when it was launched?

Was it C4 that aired the Super Bowl live from the mid 80’s, for example the Chicago Bears with The Fridge in 1988?

Yes, it was. The Bears with The Fridge, Mad Mac, The Samurai and Mr Perfect Walter Payton was 85 though.
The Giants with Lawrence Taylor was 86.

 

[Weststander]

Sportsnight was a great programme - maybe Sportsnight with Coleman at some point?? I think the wonderful Harry Carpenter is worth a mention too but yes RIP Dickie Davies - another stalwart of Saturday afternoons for us of a certain age!

Harry Carpenter on Sportsnight was simply a sports fan, one of us, who’d fallen into his dream job.

Seemed such a great bloke too, he loved the sporting heroes and let them steal the show. None of the look at me crap from some of the noisy equivalents now …. Fletch.

 

[Weststander]

Yes, it was. The Bears with The Fridge, Mad Mac, The Samurai and Mr Perfect Walter Payton was 85 though.
The Giants with Lawrence Taylor was 86.

I always loved 49’ers teams …. Montana was like a god, Jerry Rice.

 

[drew]

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