Syracuse, N.Y. — The scene at Steve’s bar on Tipperary Hill was the same at 1:30 p.m. yesterday as it was March 16 a year ago: Six graying men tossing back domestic beer while watching reruns of “Match Game” from 1975 on the Game Show Network.
“Weren’t we just here yesterday doing the same thing? Or was it last year?” Mark Scanlon, a Steve’s regular, asked as he pulled his stool closer to the bar to debate the others over whether “Match Game” host Gene Rayburn would succeed on a television game show in 2021.