ParanoidObsessive posted...
As an adult? Maybe (
I'd say it objectively sucks and always has, but I won't fight with people who love it
).
As a child in the 80s? No. When you were a kid, college sports were universally terrible and boring. And the ultimate sign that the fun part of the day was now over and TV would be utterly worthless to you for the next two days (at least). It was the hard cut-off where you went from all of the major channels showing cartoons made explicitly for you to suddenly being a vast wasteland of
nothing
.
Unless you had a pathologically-obsessed sports dad who watched (and forced you to watch) and basically programmed you to love it as well (which I consider to be a form of child abuse), odds are you didn't give a shit about NCAA anything when you were 8 years old.
Bummer.
Whomever did the Saturday programming for our Fox affiliate was an absolute badass.
They usually ended the morning with shows focused on the older boy demographic Spiderman, X-Men, Exosquad, The Tick, Batman.
After the cartoons ended, they almost always had a double feature that almost always played into this demographic with martial arts, robots, aliens, monsters, shoot outs etc. They often paired a movie with its sequel or something thematically similar.
A huge portion of my pop culture exposure came from the Saturday afternoon Fox movies. I could be misremembering a where I saw a few of these, but at least 90% or better I have specific memories of seeing them for the first time on KLJB Fox TV.
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Predator 2
Gremlins
Gremlins 2
Terminator
Terminator 2
Robocop
Robocop 2
First Blood
First Blood: Part II
Rambo 3
Rocky I-V
Over the Top
Bloodsport
Universal Soldier
Hard Target
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Chopping Mall
Night of the Comet
Big Trouble in Little China
Overboard
Smokey and the Bandit
Duel
Maximum Overdrive
Final Countdown
Batteries Not Included
Mad Max
Road Warrior
Thunderdome
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Legend of Fong Se Yuk
Legend of Fong Se Yuk 2
Masters of the Universe
Cyborg
Willow
Romancing the Stone
Top Gun
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Highlander
The Fly
Batman 89
Batman 66
Last Starfighter
Enemy Mine
Planet of the Apes
Blackhole
Im sure I'm forgetting even more.
We had Sunday cartoon as well here, not as densely packed, as Saturdays but I was always bummed to miss them having to go church. I recall Ghostbusters, Bucky O' Hare, and Mighty Max being Sunday toons here.