Sports in the 1970s The first video game ever created was called Pong and created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. Pong was played exactly like tennis, but instead of having to play against a person you can play against the CPU if you wanted(Oxford). Cell phones were invented in 1973 which helped people all around the country or the world contact each other with a push of a button and revolutionized the way humans could contact each other(Goodwin). Sports in the 1970s changed because the historical and political events of the time.
In the 1970s, there were many different historical and political events including those that I will list. The triple crown is an award that has only been awarded 12 times and one of those times was to a horse no one expected it to go to. That horse’s name was Secretariat, Secretariat was a record breaking machine he broke the Churchill Downs track record with a time …show more content…
People would sometimes win thousands of dollars when betting on the right horse of that race. Secretariat made some people love him and made them rich in return because they had the confidence in Secretariat to put down a few thousand for a few hundred thousand dollars(Bayly). When Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali it shocked the world and made Joe Frazier a rich man, television became even richer. Television would get paid when viewers would tune in to watch not only Joe Frazier but the other boxers that the television would televise(Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction). Mark Spitz paved the way for the American swim team all across America, he inspired all swimmers by winning 7 gold medals in the Olympics. Mark Spitz was the reason swimming became a big deal in America, he was only 17 when he started breaking records and was 22 when he set a new trend in America(The American Scene Events.Vol 8. Danbury: Grolier, 1999.
In the 1970s, there were many different historical and political events including those that I will list. The triple crown is an award that has only been awarded 12 times and one of those times was to a horse no one expected it to go to. That horse’s name was Secretariat, Secretariat was a record breaking machine he broke the Churchill Downs track record with a time …show more content…
People would sometimes win thousands of dollars when betting on the right horse of that race. Secretariat made some people love him and made them rich in return because they had the confidence in Secretariat to put down a few thousand for a few hundred thousand dollars(Bayly). When Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali it shocked the world and made Joe Frazier a rich man, television became even richer. Television would get paid when viewers would tune in to watch not only Joe Frazier but the other boxers that the television would televise(Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction). Mark Spitz paved the way for the American swim team all across America, he inspired all swimmers by winning 7 gold medals in the Olympics. Mark Spitz was the reason swimming became a big deal in America, he was only 17 when he started breaking records and was 22 when he set a new trend in America(The American Scene Events.Vol 8. Danbury: Grolier, 1999.