Tag: USFL

• Who Wore It Better, Defunct Sports League Edition

  I confess: I haven’t really had the time to update this thing recently. Worse, I’m kind of low on ideas for a post. I blame the oppressive heat. While I languish in Creative Prison (a la Hollywood this summer) I’m turning to the time-honored last resort of desperate bloggers everywhere: a poll. But not just any poll! I think I…

  goldread

  2014-08-13

  ’80s, Sports

  Burt Reynolds, Lee Majors, Los Angeles Express, Tampa Bay Bandits, USFL

• Wasn’t The Afterschool Special Special?

      There are many relics from yesteryear that I (and in many cases, only I) look upon with fondness. The USFL. Music videos on MTV. Using my phone as, well, a phone. Whatever became of of the Afterschool Special? Growing up is hard, but this anthology of angst set us straight on the whatnots of adolescence, serving up…

  goldread

  2010-02-09

  Entertainment, Pop Culture, TV

  1975, Afterschool Special, Amanda Wyss, Beau Bridges, Better Off Dead, CBS Schoolbreak Special, Christopher Knight, Dana Plato, Escape From Witch Mountain, Eve Plumb, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Happy Days, John Cusack, Judge Reinhold, Largo Woodruff, My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel, Pssst! Hammerman’s After You!, Rob Lowe, Sarah’s Summer of The Swans, Schoolboy Father, Scott Baio, She Drinks a Little, The Brady Bunch, USFL