Does the name Vinko Bogataj mean anything to you?

I’ll admit, I had to look up his name on the Internet Monday afternoon.

But I thought about him last weekend. Chances are, if you’re, as I heard someone describe Saturday night, 35 or older and were a sports fan in the ’70s and ’80s, you thought about him, too.

Bogataj was the ski jumper who famously crashed to the words “... the agony of defeat” on TV every Saturday afternoon for about 30 years.

Those words, which, of course, began with, “The thrill of victory ...” were spoken by Jim McKay, the acclaimed ABC sportscaster and host of “Wide World of Sports” who died on Saturday at the age of 86.

McKay’s death, which, fittingly, I suppose, I learned about while tuning in to ABC and hoping to see the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 — we’ll wait another year, I guess — brought back a flood of memories to me and others who first became sports fans before ESPN seized control of the universe and gave us 24 hours of sports and sports news each day.

Yes, those of you born in the ’80s and ’90s, there was once a time when TV sports were pretty much limited to weekends, and “Wide World of Sports” was a staple.

Even with infinitesimal amounts of broadcast time on multiple national and regional cable and satellite channels — enough time to scream and shout and beat fans silly with every minuscule detail of Barry Bonds’ alleged steroid use, Michael Vick’s dog-fighting trial and Brett Favre’s retirement (or is it?) — the World Wide Leader doesn’t come close to showing us the things that McKay brought us for 90 minutes each week.

Sure, they think it’s cute to put the National Spelling Bee and the Little League World Series on every year, and, for some reason, they insist on showing hour after hour of Texas hold ’em poker tournaments late at night. But that’s hardly “spanning the globe” and bringing us “the constant variety of sport.”

When you’re looking for “the human drama of athletic competition,” there was only one place to find it.

We saw track and field, skiing and other Olympic sports, Ironman triathlons, championship boxing, crazy daredevil stunts and, one of my personal favorites, Acapulco cliff diving.

According to The Associated Press, ABC estimated that McKay traveled 4.5 million miles and to 40 countries for the show, not to mention his assignments for coverage of the Olympics and major golf tournaments.

McKay changed “our view of sports and our world experience of sports,” Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said in an interview with AP.

“Wide World of Sports” even inspired a variety of young people to decide they wanted to cover sports of all kinds for a living — to watch different people in action and tell their stories.

Whether it’s in the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat or even just for the fun of it.