The Real Story Behind 'The Battle Of The Sexes'
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. |
| 0:01.8 | It was on this day in 1973 |
| 0:06.8 | that at the |
| 0:08.3 | Astrodome, before mentioned Astrodome, |
| 0:12.0 | the Battle of the Sexes occurred. |
| 0:18.1 | And |
| 0:20.4 | well, |
| 0:23.6 | I've always thought this was silly |
| 0:26.3 | because it was between a 55-year-old Bobby Riggs |
| 0:32.3 | and a 29-year-old Billie Jean King. |
| 0:37.3 | It went three sets because, well, |
| 0:42.3 | it went three sets because |
| 0:45.3 | it was meant to. |
| 0:49.3 | And I don't think people should celebrate this. |
| 0:53.3 | Unless you understand exactly what it was, |
| 0:56.3 | which was an ego project for Bobby Riggs. |
| 1:00.3 | Bobby Riggs was 55 years old at the time. |
| 1:03.3 | I've had people tell me, well, he wasn't even that good, |
| 1:06.3 | the hell he wasn't. |
| 1:07.3 | He was number one in all of tennis, internationally, |
| 1:11.3 | several times. |
| 1:13.3 | But it had been 25 years. |
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