So often, as a long-time watcher of televised sports, I've been fortunate to have lived my life in the Pacific time zone. Oh my, has it ever mattered.
Particularly because of one of my weird favorite things in sports that likely not many others share -- my love for overtimes and extra innings, long games with no idea of when they will end.
This is the part where my personal life and professional life take opposite turns, by the way. As a writer and broadcaster, those games make you crazy. They are terrible. You need to get your work done and you can't even start it.
Even as an in-arena spectator at a long game, it's as if you're being held hostage. You don't want to leave, but it's late and the concession stand is out of food and you have to get up early in the morning or you need to get the kids home to bed.
But at home, watching such a game on TV? Bring it on!
The best hockey game I ever watched was the five-overtime, six-hour and 56-minute playoff game in 2000 between the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins.
And I was so lucky to be watching on the West Coast because with the three-hour time-zone advantage, I was able to stay awake for the finish.
If you never watched that game (or even if you did), NBC Sports Philadelphia is producing this week's edition of "Sports Uncovered" -- an in-depth look at the incredible event that's a fun "podumentary."
There is audio from a good many of the participants and even doctors who had to treat players for all sorts of ailments based on their exertion throughout what's been called the "Marathon on Ice."
My mom couldn't watch the game anymore. At around 11:30 she said, I can't take this stress. So she turned it off and she woke up at 1:30. She goes, I gotta go find a score. She turned it on and the game was still going. So you know, they ran out of beer in the Pittsburgh arena. People were sleeping in the stands. It was, it was crazy. - Ron Tugnutt, Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender
It was a tense contest and I remember all the great opportunities that were missed that could have ended the game sooner and how fatigued the players got as the thing dragged on. They were cutting their lines down to shifts as short as 10 seconds to try to keep them as fresh as possible.
I had a couple of shifts in the game, where I jumped on the ice and the bench was right near the center ice red line. I took three steps one way and stopped, went back three the other way, stopped and turned to the bench and said "change" and just jumped on, so I can guarantee you I had a couple of shifts that were less than ten seconds long. - Keith Jones, Philadelphia Flyers right wing
It was an amazing happening -- a heart-stopping saga to watch and fun to relive two decades later.
And I remember such a mix of excitement and relief when Keith Primeau, all 6-5 and 220 pounds of him, finally scored the game winner. He had been dominant much of the game and throughout the night was my pick to end it.
And as long as I'm comfortable in front of the tube, I love the drama in those games that could end any time but seem as if they never will.
My favorite, all-time baseball game came on July 4, 1985, when the Mets needed 19 innings and six hours and 10 minutes to beat the Braves in Atlanta 16-13. It was an incredible game full of twists, turns and high drama.
And I think the Trail Blazers' four-overtime, not-so-instant classic win over Denver in the playoffs last season would have been a lot more fun had I been sitting at home in an easy chair rather than changing my writing focus a dozen times at Moda.
But take a listen to Sports Uncovered and find out about a hockey game that kept even the West Coast up late. And the podumentary is a lot quicker than sitting through the five overtimes.
To never miss an episode, be sure to subscribe to Sports Uncovered and get every episode automatically downloaded to your phone. Sports Uncovered is available on the MyTeams app and on every major podcasting platform: Apple, Google Podcast, iHeart, Stitcher, Spotify, and TuneIn.
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