ESPN World Roller Hockey League open (1993)

Here's something you'd thought you'd never see again.

This is the opening for ESPN's made-for-TV World Roller Hockey League. The WRHL was a creation of promoter David McLane.

You gotta love this intro, featuring a metal riff logos of the eight teams in the league, plus clips of WRHL in the background.

This was ESPN's first foray into the world of roller hockey, but it was not their last. They debuted Pro Beach Hockey in 1998.

This intro was taken from a TSN broadcast of the WRHL. Yes, some of its games found their way northward.

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[HISTORYBUFFPA]

Wow!!

So glad I found this!

Haven't seen it in years.

Thanks for posting it.

[yettibrad]

Holy shit. . .hadn't seen this in ages. Came on around the same time I started playing hockey.

[PeteMAnderson]

Wow, the days when ESPN really, really needed to fill programming time.

[wall91nutz]

I used to watch these the summer between 9th and 10th grade...i played hockey that year too great stuff

[tamagoMMA]

Why must you bring back all of these awful memories? ;)