I don’t remember too many specifics about Sundays. I did watch football. But one thing that always gives me that blah feeling is the “60 minutes” ticking sound during the show. Every time I think of that show and hear that sound I always think about going to school the next day.
Hot take about Sundays. But you’re not wrong. Saturday morning tv was awesome. Sunday…that was the B team, and the it was church programs, cbs Sunday morning, and then infomercials. Even with wrestling, on Saturday we got WWF superstars, and on Sunday, I was lucky to get UPN Wrestling Challenge. I didn’t have cable so that was all I had for TV. We went to church on Saturday evenings but if I had a sleepover my family would pick me up at 9am to go on Sunday. No getting out of it. My mom always tried to keep us active, so we would go hiking or skiing, or so something outdoorsy on Sundays. Being Canadian, I also played hockey, so there was often a game on Sunday and a practice Saturday, or vice versa. If you can believe it, I also played in a youth symphony orchestra on Sundays for a few years. My brother and I would watch football and/or basketball on Sundays. We got that with our antenna. Some Sundays we’d go to Sunday dinner at my grandparents, sometimes just us, sometimes there’d be other relatives there who lived here in Montreal as well. The Simpsons was a pretty strong Sunday tradition. So, long story short, my Sundays were different, depending on the year or the circumstances.
Sunday for me was usually packing up my bookbag, getting school clothes out for Monday, watching the Simpsons, prior to Simpsons whatever show caught my interest. My dad always would watch some nature program. It usually was a quiet afternoon, sometimes I would just be in the backyard or play with a few toys.
Late 80s Sunday mornings for me was USA cartoon express all morning leading to all American wrestling then it was just kinda whatever..nfl if it was football season, if it was summer it was time to go outside . Night television was definitely the Simpsons and eventually the fox Sunday night lineup had in living color and I believe married with children too. Early 90s Sundays during the nba season was great, NBC would have the double and sometimes triple header games with those great match ups like the bulls vs Knicks, bulls vs Orlando, Houston vs phoenix, Utah vs San Antonio ..NBA on NBC was great in the 90s on Sundays.
I have two versions of Sunday. At home during the school year, it was get up early to eat what was usually a feast of a breakfast then get ready for church. That was an odd experience. Mom would give us each a hand full of change and send us off to church. They didn't go. At first we went. My sister went into a different building than I did. In my class we played games like, shark and midnight murder or murder at midnight. One of those. Yep, that one kind of scared me. So, we got up went through the motions and skipped church. Went to the store and got candy then walked around town being careful not to get seen by any one we knew. Then come home, finish any homework that didn't get done, get everything ready for school the next day, eat dinner, start the bedtime routine and be in bed by 8:00p.m. Sundays during the summer months at my grandparents house was the best! Not at first though. When we were still young we started Sunday the same way we did at home but then all of us went to church for what felt like all day. There was no children's class at that one. Seemed like the pastor stood up there towering above everyone yelling at us. It was loud and it made me want to run out the door as fast as I could. I remember thinking we were all going to die before the next day happened. I can't remember how old I was before my grandparents allowed us to stay home with my aunt. That changed everything! My grandparents still went to church. We ate whatever we wanted, played and had a blast while they were gone. The countdown was a must! We had a tape recorder and we'd record the songs we liked. We stayed up until it was over. Unless I fell asleep before but that didn't happen much. The basement rules were nonexistent for the most part. I really miss the basement with it's red shag carpet, smokey/musty smell, dark, cool, two doors, one to enter the room and one that went into the closet that had no back wall so you could go all the way around in a big circle. Rabbit hole! We all watched Americas Funniest Videos. And now, Sundays are rather boring. I miss going to church and I'm already up passed my bedtime If I want a full night of sleep before the 4 a.m. wake up alarm. But that's ok! I need to get caught up on videos. It's my time reserved for some fun.
Other than the WWF Cavalcade at 1:00pm there wasn’t much else going on. Until I got into football. We would watch the ABC Sunday night movie which sometimes was pretty decent, but the thought of having to start another week of school was blah!
Sundays in the fall were all about Sunday NFL Countdown, followed by two football games, then America’s Funniest Home Videos and the Simpsons. Those early seasons of the Simpsons were probably a little crass for the time, but they almost always had a good moral of the story and some solid family values underneath it all. Same thing with Roseanne.
Now that I think about it Sundays were kind of boring back then. It was church for me during the day and then I did my homework in the afternoon. That's about it.
Sundays in Toronto it would be astro boy wwf cavlecade ICW wrestling then maybe knight rider then I knew it was bedtime....Saturday was always the best day as a kid!
I loathed Sundays as a kid. My parents would blast gospel music in the morning on the stereo and it would be just church after that. Later it would be boring made for TV movies or 80s movie replays while playing with Legos or ninja turtles on the floor. Going to bed at 8:30pm-9:00pm. The best thing about Sundays for me were the Sunday dinners. My mom would go all out on the food.
