You old timers will know what I mean. You youngsters will be scratching your heads.
When I was a kid, we had to sometimes work magic to get TV38 to come in. Sometimes getting a decent picture and sound at the same time was a real chore. Finely adjusting the top dial - nuancing it somewhere between the inexact notches on the dial somewhere between say 36 to 39 territory. Impossible to know where because it sure as hell wasn't digital. That effort was done in concert with careful adjustment of the rabbit ears, sometimes even the orientation of the set itself, often a few whacks on the side as if that would do something. It required patience, a deft touch, and the ability to experiment - but not too wildly. Like adjusting the derailleur on a bike. Small changes, reset. Small changes, reset. Start getting bold and changing everything at once? Usually a poor result. And if there was bad weather? Times all of that by two.
It also required the ability to sometimes accept something that was working just fine, if not absolutely 100% perfect. Actually, often perfection was very much the enemy of perfectly fine.
You know who Jim Montgomery is? That asshole who -- in the middle of the game while we are all settled in our seats with beers and happily watching -- starts f***ing with the antenna to make it "perfect". The guy who ends up costing us all the better part of the period watching static -- after he screws up a good thing and then starts essentially from scratch.
There was usually a bench clearing brawl we'd hear about on the snippets of audio while he's ham handing things to boot. No worries though, we could just "rewind" once the signal comes back on, right???? f*** that, we could.
No. You know who Jim Montgomery is???? He's the guy that did that to us last week and now has the f***ing audacity to do it again THIS week.
Can't remember too many times I've been more angry as a Bruins fan in 50+ of watching endless games.
