Rolf Benirschke profile on ESPN

[davemackey]

Since last night's Monday Night Football game involved the San Diego Chargers (for the first time in seven seasons), ESPN for its pre-game package prepared a little story on Rolf Benirschke, and specifically his role in coming back to play in the 1981 AFC divisional playoff after his initial health battles with inflammatory bowel disease. The Chargers won that game in overftime over Miami 41-38. The winning score? A Rolf Benirschke field goal, of course.

The piece briefly touched on various aspects of Rolf's post NFL life, including a seven-second clip from an episode of "Wheel Of Fortune" with Rolf as host.

[J.R.]

Did anyone snap some pictures of that mini-story ? Those would look great on my Rolf Fan Site !

They showed WOF clips, I would of figured Rolf would of wanted those banned ?
-Joe R.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Oct 28 2003, 05:17 AM\']Since last night's Monday Night Football game involved the San Diego Chargers (for the first time in seven seasons), ESPN for its pre-game package prepared a little story on Rolf Benirschke, and specifically his role in coming back to play in the 1981 AFC divisional playoff after his initial health battles with inflammatory bowel disease. The Chargers won that game in overftime over Miami 41-38. The winning score? A Rolf Benirschke field goal, of course.

The piece briefly touched on various aspects of Rolf's post NFL life, including a seven-second clip from an episode of "Wheel Of Fortune" with Rolf as host.[/quote]
Of course, the voiceover erred in saying that Rolf got the WoF gig in 1987 (IIRC, he took over with the 1/9/89 episode).

I wonder if Goen had been tabbed initially to replace Sajak that NBC wouldn't have let the show go to CBS to begin with (as NBC reacquired the show about a year and a half later).

Doug -- soon to celebrate 200 posts