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The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that have broadcast the Soccer Bowl, which was the annual championship competition of the North American Soccer League. The NASL was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.

Further information: North American Soccer League on television

1980s[edit]

Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Touchline reporter
1984 Sportsvision
TSN 		Howard Balson Ken Stern
1983 USA
CTV 		Bob Carpenter Gordon Bradley[1] Al Miller
1982 USA[2]
CTV 		Spencer Ross[3] Werner Roth[4]
1981 ABC[5]
CTV 		Verne Lundquist Paul Gardner
1980[6] ABC[7]
CTV 		Jim McKay Paul Gardner Verne Lundquist

Notes[edit]

  • 1984 - Sportsvision televised the series in the Chicago area; this coverage was simulcast on the then-new TSN (which had started up a month earlier) cable channel in Canada.

1970s[edit]

Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Touchline reporter
1979 ABC
CTV 		Jim McKay[10] Paul Gardner[11] Verne Lundquist[12]
1978 TVS Jon Miller Paul Gardner[13]
1977 TVS[14] Jon Miller[15] Paul Gardner Walter Chyzowych[16]
1976 CBS
CBC 		Jon Miller[17][18][19]
1975 CBS[20] Frank Glieber Jack Whitaker[21]
1974 CBS[22][23] Frank Glieber Clive Toye and Kyle Rote Jr.
1973 Not televised
1972 Not televised
1971 Not televised
1970 Not televised

Notes[edit]

  • 1978 - This would be the final NASL game broadcast TVS, as the league signed a deal with ABC Sports in the fall of 1978.[24] Gardner would continue as the color analyst for ABC's coverage, while Miller would move on to a long career announcing Major League Baseball.
  • 1974 - Although the Aztecs had a league-best record and points total, and rightly should have hosted the championship final, CBS intervened and strongly influenced the NASL's decision to play the match in Miami. CBS was under contract to air the game live and was unwilling to black-out the large Southern California viewing audience. At the time it was the standard in many U.S.-based sports for the host market not to broadcast games locally unless they were sold out. At the time, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum had a capacity of 94,500 and, even in a best-case scenario, an Aztecs sell-out was unlikely. Moreover, in an effort by CBS to capture more viewers during the peak East Coast time slot, a Los Angeles-hosted game would have begun at 12:30 (PDT) local time. The league recognized that both these factors would be detrimental to ticket sales and agreed to move the game to the Miami Orange Bowl with a 3:30 (EDT) local start. CBS had also stepped in the previous week and forced the Toros to play their semifinal match at the much-smaller Tamiami Stadium in Tamiami Park. This was done so that if Miami did win, CBS's production crews would have a full week for set-up in the Orange Bowl stadium.[25]

1960s[edit]

Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Touchline reporter
1969 With only five teams in the league, no championship event was held that year. In a close finish, the NASL trophy was awarded to the Kansas City Spurs, the team with the most points at the end of the season. The season was completed on August 31, 1969.[26][27]
1968 CBS Mario Machado[28] Clive Toye
1967 CBS Jack Whitaker Danny Blanchflower[29]

Notes[edit]

  • In 1966, a group of sports entrepreneurs led by Bill Cox and Robert Hermann formed a consortium called the North American Professional Soccer League with the intention of forming a professional soccer league in United States and Canada. However this was just one of three groups with similar plans. The NAPSL eventually merged with one of these groups, the National Soccer League, led by Richard Millen, to form the National Professional Soccer League. A third group, the United Soccer Association was sanctioned by both the USSFA and FIFA. Because of this the NPSL was branded an outlaw league by FIFA and players faced sanctions for signing with it. Despite this the NPSL, which secured a TV contract from CBS, set about recruiting players, and announced it would be ready to launch in 1967. In December 1967, the NPSL merged with the United Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Soccer Bowl 1983 Tulsa vs. Toronto". youtube.com. October 1, 1983. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  2. ^ 1982 New York Cosmos Soccer Bowl Press Kit (PDF). p. 2.
  3. ^ "Sports View, Soccer's Samuels Says Thrill As Tv Host ... - Page 14". The Telegraph. September 11, 1982. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  4. ^ "Soccer Bowl 1982 New York Cosmos Seattle Sounders". April 27, 2021.
  5. ^ "Sunday September 27 Day And Night. - Page 14". The Madison Courier. September 25, 1981.
  6. ^ "Soccer Bowl 80: Facts and Figures". The Washington Post. September 19, 1980. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  7. ^ "The Times-News - Page 20". The Times-News. September 19, 1980.
  8. ^ "The Year in American Soccer – 1980". Soccer History USA. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  9. ^ Yannis, Alex (September 25, 1981). "Soccer Bowl Notebook; Clubs Are Angered by Lack of Live TV". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  10. ^ Mackin, Bob (September 8, 2018). "Where were you on Saturday, September 8, 1979?". theBreaker.news. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  11. ^ 1979 Soccer Bowl '79 Media Guide (PDF). p. 2.
  12. ^ "St. Petersburg Times - Page 25". St. Petersburg Times. September 8, 1979. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  13. ^ "NASL TV: A Short History". Kenn Tomasch. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  14. ^ McDonald, Frank (August 28, 2017). "ONE GAME'S PROFOUND LEGACY". The Frank MacDonald Blog. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  15. ^ Sepich, Scott (December 10, 2021). "Before the 2021 MLS Cup hits Portland, a look back at Soccer Bowl ′77 at Civic Stadium". The Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  16. ^ Farnsworth, Ed (January 21, 2010). "Great Philly soccer teams: Ukrainian Nationals". The Philly Soccer Page. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  17. ^ Miller, Hyman, Jon W., Mark (2000). Confessions of a Baseball Purist: What's Right, and Wrong, with Baseball, as ... JHU Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780801863165.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Lalas, Greg (August 24, 2011). "Soccer Almanac: The explosion of soccer on TV". MLSsoccer.com.
  19. ^ "The Year in American Soccer – 1976". Soccer History USA. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  20. ^ Yannis, Alex (August 24, 1975). "N.A.S.L.'s Best to Meet in 'Soccer Bow1‐75". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  21. ^ Martz, Ron (August 25, 1975). "TV coverage unfair to NASL". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1-C. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  22. ^ "The Year in American Soccer – 1974". Soccer History USA. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  23. ^ "North American Soccer League Finals On Cbs. - Page 13". The Dispatch. August 23, 1974. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  24. ^ Kleiman, Carol (May 9, 1979). "Banking on American dollars, ABC to televise NASL soccer games". Boca Raton News. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  25. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19740814&id=UDw0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=yesFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4148,1615343&hl=en [dead link]
  26. ^ NASL. "NASLSoccerBowl - History - Past Winner". North American Soccer League.
  27. ^ NASL. "NASL 1968-1984 - Yearly Result". North American Soccer League. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013.
  28. ^ "MLS & NBC Sports have agreed on a 3-year deal". BigSoccer. August 11, 2011.
  29. ^ Maule, Tex. "Kickoff For A Babel Of Booters," Sports Illustrated, 24 April 1967.

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