▪ NESN is producing two new original Bruins and Red Sox All-Time Fantasy Draft shows that will debut on successive Sundays (June 14 and 21) at 7 p.m. Adam Pellerin will host both shows, while six members of the respective NESN broadcast teams draft their all-time fantasy teams of former and current players in an S-Curve format. Gotta go Bobby Orr and Ted Williams with the first picks, right? Though Pedro Martinez is tempting.
▪ NBC Sports Boston took a week hiatus from airing old Celtics games, but it will be back with a new batch starting with a Monday night showing of a Lakers-Celtics regular-season game from January 1986. In fact, five games from the spectacular ’86 season are on the docket this coming week. Semi-facetiously, I’ve always thought a channel that just replayed the entire 1985-86 Celtics season from beginning to end would do well around here.
▪ If the NBA and its broadcast partners decide to mike up players or find other ways to mine for audio gold with no fans in the stands, they’d better put the broadcasts on at least a 10-second delay. If it’s live and you can hear everything being said on the court, your kids will learn composites of swear words that you don’t even know.
▪ ESPN has been pushing out “30 for 30” docs to try to sustain momentum after the success of “The Last Dance.” One I’m looking forward to seeing: “Long Gone Summer,’’ on the fun and ultimately fraudulent 1998 home run chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. McGwire and Sosa are interviewed at length for the doc, which debuts June 14 at 9 p.m. Don’t know about you, but I still remember that baseball summer well, as inauthentic as so much of it was.
▪ The “30 for 30” films are almost uniformly excellent. My one consistent gripe about them is that often they shoehorn in ESPN personalities that have little to do with the narrative. I still have no idea why Mike Greenberg and then-ESPN personality Marcellus Wiley were part of the otherwise superb Bo Jackson doc a few years ago.
▪ The game I’ve probably rewatched the most lately is Super Bowl XXXVI between the Patriots and Rams. I know there’s a fraction of Patriots fans that think Pat Summerall underplayed his call on the winning drive, but I love it, especially with John Madden alongside gradually realizing his declaration that the Patriots should play for overtime was going to look foolish. There’s something to be said for letting the moment breathe, and no one did that better than Summerall. The best call from one of the 12 championship moments this century in Boston sports remains Gil Santos and Gino Cappelletti’s call of Adam Vinatieri’s winning 48-yard field goal. Gil’s play-by-play — “And . . . it . . .is . . .good! It’s good! It’s good!” backed up by Gino’s giddy “Heyyyyy!” — perfectly captured the joy and surprise of the moment. But I’ll tell you, Dave Goucher’s “Get the duck boats ready!” when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011 is pretty darn close.
▪ And over here in the category of Old Games You Never Want To See Twice, NBC is replaying Super Bowl XX between the Bears and Patriots on Sunday at 3 p.m. Tony Franklin gives the Patriots a 3-0 lead with a 36-yard field goal 1 minute 19 seconds into the first quarter. You’re on your own after that.
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