A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : SIX DEGREES OF JIM LAMPLEY: THE SUPER BOWL EDITION.Did you see Jim Lampley nearly run the wall during the special ``Jeopardy!'' sportscasters competition that aired Friday? He ate Al Michaels Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television sportscaster. Currently employed by NBC Sports after nearly three decades (1977 – 2006) with ABC Sports, Michaels is one of the most prominent and respected members of his profession. for brunch and Greg Gumbel Greg Gumbel (born May 3, 1946) is an American television sportscaster. He is best known for his various assignments on the CBS network (most notably, the National Football League and NCAA basketball). for a late dinner. Alex Trebek George Alexander Trebek (born as Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek [1] on July 22, 1940) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the game show Jeopardy! since September 10, 1984. nearly invoked the mercy rule A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. . OK, so you had to be there. But if there were a Super Bowl trophy for ``Jeopardy!,'' Lampley would have been hoisting it. Lampley also has a connection to the real Super Sunday. In fact, if we're not mistaken, the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga could just have easily named the championship trophy after him instead of that other guy, Vince Lombardi. The way it works: Vince Lombardi, the legendary Green Bay Packers coach, brought back to life in recent Nike commercials by Jerry Stiller, played himself 30 years ago in the movie ``Paper Lions,'' based on the first-person I-played-quarterback-for-the-Detroit Lions book by George Plimpton. George Plimpton, the well-known sports author who somehow has 18 actor credits in movies, somehow got onto the set of Howard Hawks' 1970 Western classic ``Rio Lobo'' (not to be confused with ``Rio Grande'' or ``Rio Bravo'') to play the role of ``Whitey's henchman,'' which was somehow overshadowed by the lead performance of John Wayne. John Wayne, not a bad football player himself (as Marion Morrison) when he attended USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. and actually had roles as a player in two silent movies called ``The Drop Kick'' (1927) and ``The Forward Pass'' (1929), starred as a colonel in the 1969 Western ``The Undefeated,'' that also included the first movie roles for former Rams stars Roman Gabriel (as ``Blue Boy'') and Merlin Olsen (as ``Little George''). Merlin Olsen was the analyst in Super Bowls XV, XVII, XX, and XXIII, with longtime broadcast partner Dick Enberg. Dick Enberg, a Super Bowl locker room reporter interviewing Rams quarterback Tom Jarrett (Warren Beatty) in the movie ``Heaven Can Wait,'' made the call on eight Super Bowls, including SB XXVII, which was hosted on NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. by Jim Lampley. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO no caption (Jim Lampley) |
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