“The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition!”
If you happened to grow up in an era of single digit televisions channels and limited sports coverage, that’s a phrase you’ll likely recognize instantaneously. You may even hear the voice of a particular announcer narrating it as you read.
ABCs Wide World of Sports lasted long past it’s debut in 1961, and continued into my early childhood, but by that time its most famous narrator had left his post, and it was up to my father to hunt down old VHS tapes in order to more fully expose me to the phrase that he loved to jokingly employ at even the slightest of inconveniences.