{"id":10509,"date":"2011-11-28T22:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T03:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2011-11-28T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T03:58:08","slug":"in-search-of%e2%80%a6high-quality-uncut-video-clips-of-abc%e2%80%99s-1978-extravaganza-rock-%e2%80%98n-roll-sports-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/in-search-of%e2%80%a6high-quality-uncut-video-clips-of-abc%e2%80%99s-1978-extravaganza-rock-%e2%80%98n-roll-sports-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of\u2026High-Quality, Uncut Video Clips of ABC\u2019s 1978 Extravaganza, <em>Rock \u2018n Roll Sports Classic<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be nothing I regret missing and altogether forgetting more than this 1978 TV special, <em>Rock &#8216;n Roll Sports Classic<\/em>, which appeared on ABC, the network behind &#8220;jiggle tv&#8221; classics like <em>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/em>, <em>Three&#8217;s Company<\/em>, and the awesome <em>Battle of the Network Stars<\/em> series. What the hell was I doing that night that cause me to miss this show? How is it that I fail to recall even missing it in the first place? Was I already too cool for school, sitting out a legendary sports-rock event because it didn&#8217;t pair off members of\u00a0<strong>The Clash<\/strong> vs <strong>The Band<\/strong>?<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C16NXJ0AGtM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Check out this washed-out clip and tell me <strong>Townsman alexmagic<\/strong> wouldn&#8217;t trade 5 to 10 years off his life to have been able to watch this thing in real time? Shoot, I could have invited you over for our first live RTH event, all of us gathered around the television in my Mom&#8217;s basement!<\/p>\n<p>There are some better-quality clips of this show posted on YouTube, but they were edited down by some <strong>Runaways<\/strong> fanboy. I never liked <strong>Joan Jett<\/strong> and that crew from the git-go, although they do dominate the field in some of these events. When they&#8217;re introduced for the sprint in this fanboy&#8217;s edited clip, however, he skips over all the members of the blue team. Eff that!<\/p>\n<p>My request is for someone\/anyone to help us locate high-quality, uncut clips from this broadcast. We need to be able to put our heads together and study the moves of not only the women from the Runaways but <strong>Dash Crofts<\/strong>, <strong>Marilyn McCoo<\/strong>, and <strong>Kenny Loggins<\/strong>. If we can find high-quality footage of this show we may have to schedule a live get-together to break it down. Help a brother out, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/bands-on-the-run\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Previously<\/em>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be nothing I regret missing and altogether forgetting more than this 1978 TV special, Rock &#8216;n Roll Sports Classic, which appeared on ABC, the network behind &#8220;jiggle tv&#8221; classics like Charlie&#8217;s Angels, Three&#8217;s Company, and the awesome Battle of the Network Stars series. What the hell was I doing that night that cause <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/in-search-of%e2%80%a6high-quality-uncut-video-clips-of-abc%e2%80%99s-1978-extravaganza-rock-%e2%80%98n-roll-sports-classic\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}