1970's+Sports

=Sports Impacting the 1970s=

People in the 70s (mainly men) that watched[| television] had a great impact when[| Monday Night Football]came out men would get together in their house enjoying their favorite food and drinks.Television made this possible because in America at this time nearly everybody had a television. This increased the popularity of sports and more people getting invovled into sports. == [] = = = = =‍**1970 Sports Financial Era**= = = [|sport]s have been around since the late 1800's but they werent as serious as they were in the 1970's. That's when the money started to get involved with sports. Thus made sports more popular. Money was not involved until the T.V. network jumped in and women also. Then rivalry and gambling came into it also which caused growing thirst for betting and even more money, T.V., and [|gambling]rivalry everything made it very popular.

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=‍1970 Sports Timeline=

1970-[|Pele] won his first world cup and scored his 1,000th goal 1972- [|Mario Andretti]- Won the World Grand Prix of South Africa 1972-[|A.J. Foyt] won the Indianopilis 500 1973-[|Roberto Clemente] was the first latin american that made it in the National Baseball Hall of Fame 1973-[|Evel Knievel]jumped across 50 cars in L.A. (stunt driver) 1974-[|Hank Aaron]made his 715 home run of his carrer breaking the record that [|Babe Ruth]set 1975-[|Martina Navratilova]turned pro, creating one of the hugest rivalries in the womens tennis match with Chris Evrt, Martina 43, Evrt 37 1977-[|Tai Babilonia] and [|Randy Gardener] won the U.S. figues skating titles four times in a row 1978-[|KurtThomas] was the first to win a first place gold metal in the floor exercise at the world gymnaistics championships
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