A Century of Sports Bloopers, Volume 1

Perhaps the most entertaining aspect of A Century of Sports Bloopers is not the bloopers themselves, but the narrator who is adept at mimicking everyone from President Clinton to Walter Cronkite to Howard Cosell and many others. Some of the bloopers are not so funny (such as a race horse crashing into a fence, leaving the jockey helpless on the guide rail). Some aren't bloopers at all, but practical jokes played by athletes on other athletes (I won't give them away here). And some are simply dangerous situations ("bull" poker in which four men sit at a table playing cards while a bull charges--last man seated wins). Basically, the tape seems to suggest that if there's a lot of pain and/or humiliation involved, but no deaths, then it's funny. I'm not so sure I agree. Not a necessary purchase. A Century of Sports Bloopers, Volume 2 is also available for $12.98. Aud: P. (S. Fisher)