ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights is a 144-page recounting of the 25 greatest highlights in that television network’s history. Since ESPN is the premier sports television network ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights is an essential book for sports fans and should appeal to everyone. The book was written by longtime ESPN editor Chris Hirschberg. It has a foreword by famed broadcaster Chris Berman. There are many pictures in this book. It has coffee table potential. Do you watch sports programming
Summary of ESPN 25
ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights has seven chapters, and each contains multiple top 25 lists. As such, the book should provide a lot of fodder for sports arguments. There is a list of top draft picks, top uniforms, top venues, top mascots, top athletes, top sports quotes, top everything you can imagine.
The network first went on the air in September 1979, and the company believed that there was room on television for dedicated sports programming. At the time, sports programming was considered a risk, and ESPN a maverick. Now they are huge and have merged with the Disney Corporation.
ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights was written twenty-five years later, and ESPN is the worldwide leader in sports. The network influences the way we think about sports, the way the media covers sports, and how we perceive athletes. The network covers all sports, even cornhole. The book celebrates the people behind ESPN, the sports they cover, the athletes who play their hearts out, and, of course, the fans who care.
Bound into the book is a free DVD containing the ever-popular, and now classic, SportsCenter commercials. Beginning in May 2004 and running through September 2004. Some of the commercials are very funny. The book is perfect for both the serious and casual sports fans. That is a nice addition.
20 Iconic Uniforms
There are lists of just about everything in ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights and it would be interesting to give the reader a taste of what is in the book by reviewing the top 20 uniforms of all time. These could even enhance your wardrobe. Some lists are top twenty lists and some are top twenty-five, or greater lists. There does not appear to be a rhythm or reason to these deviations from twenty-five.
- New York Yankees home pinstripes
- Oakland Raiders home uniforms
- Los Angeles Lakers home uniforms
- Indianapolis Colts home uniforms, they had the same home uniforms in Baltimore
- Los Angeles Dodgers home uniforms
- St. Louis Cardinals Road uniforms, the blue ones
- Detroit Red Wings white uniforms, road version
- St. Louis Rams have the same iconic uniforms now that they are in Los Angeles
- Late 1970s Portland Trailblazers, when they won the National Basketball Association title
- Penn State Nittany Lions, white
- 1970s San Diego Padres
- 1970s Pittsburgh Pirates
- Marshall Thundering Hurd home uniforms
- 1070s Cleveland Indians
- 1981 Chicago White Sox
- 1982 Chicago White Sox
- 1979 San Diego Clippers
- Orlando Rage of the XFL from a little-known football league
- Houston Rockets home uniforms
- New York Mets home uniform
Conclusion
ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights is a great book for sports fans. The book should be of high interest to them. With a variety of top twenty and top twenty-five lists, there is good fodder for discussion in the book. In that way ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights is an essential book for sports fans to own. There are also a bunch of great pictures that take the reader through some iconic moments in sports. On the Table of Contents page, there are a series of pictures of Ozzie Smith doing one of his famous back flips.
