[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 17 2006, 12:58 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Jan 17 2006, 07:51 AM\']This obviously doesn't matter 12 years after the fact...but how was he eligible for Caesar's Challenge?
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What all about being a professional athlete disqualifies you from appearing on a game show? Yeah, if you're a big name, you prolly did TV appearances or something and therefore have a SAG or AFTRA card, and that would disqualify you, but if you were in the trenches and otherwise a no-name, I can't think of any reason you couldn't. And if you were far enough down the foodchain (and if he was a benchwarmer, he might have been), he may not have spoken more than a dozen words to Ahmad.
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However, the story I've always heard is that even if you've just briefly met Ahmad at a party, S&P has the right to call you ineligible. I still suspect that I didn't get on "Wheel" back in 1982 because I got a static electricity charge from Susan Stafford in a Chicago hotel lobby when shaking her hand (not to mention ol' dumbass me saying that I was trying out for "Wheel" with Nancy Jones standing next to her). On the other hand, I was extremely annoyingly perky during the tryout, so that could've been a bigger factor. (I know, that could get me on the show easily now.)