Not every sports fan got to experience ESPN when it first debuted in 1979. So when sportswriter Leigh Montville finally got his first taste in 1981, he turned the experience into a column for the Boston Globe. OnlyAGameNPR
Leigh Montville
When ESPN first went on the air on Sept. 7, 1979, the new cable channel wasn't available everywhere ... yet. So when then-Boston Globe sports columnist Leigh Montville finally got his chance to watch ESPN while in Florida, he found himself enthralled. "People in Boston would kill to be 20 feet outside my motel room door, sitting at the pool on a workday Wednesday afternoon with a piña colada and a smile in the 80-degree sunshine," Montville wrote in his April 3, 1981 column,"The Tube That Won't Let You Up.""I was watching Leroy and Potsdam on my glow-in-the-dark little television, located two feet from the flyswatter and the Gideon Bible.
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