You wish you could hear the tapes. But the probability of the recordings of college-radio sports talk that aired more than 20 years ago surviving until this day is roughly equal to the chances of hitting the Powerball jackpot.

Who knows what became of them? One host of the weekly program that aired in the late 1980s and early ’90s on Boston College’s student station WZBC suspects the tapes were discarded by some underclassman engineer charged with tidying up the studio.