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Watching the British Open this past weekend...

posted 2 years ago by GolfnGuitars (3110)
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...made me think of him.

I remember John F. Kennedy, Jr. for two things:

1) He was the one who caused Elaine to lose "The Contest" on "Seinfeld" ("John F. Kennedy, Jr.")

2) The weekend he passed away. He died during the weekend of the 1999 British Open, which ABC aired back then. However, they pre-empted Saturday's round to cover the search for his plane. And covered it and covered it...but no plane. I didn't have cable TV back then and I don't even think there was another option to watch The British Open back then, except for ABC.

I was livid. I always love waking up early and watching the British Open...but no golf that day. I didn't see a single shot of Saturday's round, thanks to the coverage of JFK Jr. If I remember correctly, they finally found the plane and their bodies well after the British Open coverage would have ended, so they could have televised the British Open after all. That made me even madder! 😃

Hard to believe that's been 24 years ago now. By the way, I got to watch the British Open coverage Sunday. That ended up being a really memorable British Open...Jean Van de Velde made that infamous triple bogey on the 18th hole to cause a 3-way playoff with Paul Lawrie and Justin Leonard, which Laurie won (I've always thought Van de Velde got one of the worst breaks ever on his second shot...it just wasn't meant to be for him). This weekend reminded me of all of that.

[–] ADBruno1985 (3577) 4 months ago

Poor you. I'm sure everyone really regrets that you couldn't watch golf. They should've scheduled the corpse-finding better for you. I remember that weekend well too. Maybe because I was only 14, but I don't remember being angry at a dead person because I had to miss my entertainment.

[–] GolfnGuitars (3110) 4 months ago

You're darn right they should have! 👍👍

[–] Nanook (2047) 4 months ago

I remember being in a room full of basketball fans watching a game, when they interrupted it to show a low speed pursuit of a guy doing a Cleavon Little in the back of a white Bronco.

[–] GolfnGuitars (3110) 4 months ago

Yes...the late Orenthal James Simpson. I think that was Game 5 of the Rockets-Knicks Finals (which was a great series). When the chase started, it was on a little square in the corner while the game was on the TV. However, as the game went along, it eventually got moved to the little square while the chase took up most of the screen.

[–] Nanook (2047) 4 months ago

Oh my yes. That was quite the tenses.

I imagine Norm is telling amazing OJ jokes in heaven, and winning every wager, I'd wager, by golly.

[–] Satan2016 (26186) 2 days ago

They had CNN, MSNBC and Fox back then. No need to interrupt other networks.