January 14, 1994

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[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.)

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 17 2006, 01:58 PM\']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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That's actually where I was going with this...and given that I know exactly nothing about the make-up of a football team, I could be totally off-base.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'dave15292\' date=\'Jan 14 2006, 04:52 PM\']January 14, 1994 is known as "Black Friday"

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I would think that June 20th 1980 might come closer to fitting that description with three games being scuttled for a talk show. Or possibly even March 24th 1989 as that was the last day of NBC's three-hour game block. At least in those days most affiliates were pretty good about carrying network shows at specified times throughout the land instead of the "oh, just pick it up off the bird and beam it whenever you please if you even run it at all" system NBC Daytime has these days.

[ChuckNet]

At least in those days most affiliates were pretty good about carrying network shows at specified times throughout the land instead of the "oh, just pick it up off the bird and beam it whenever you please if you even run it at all" system NBC Daytime has these days.

The Midwest NBC affiliates seemed to pioneer that technique in the late 80s...a 1987 promo from WOWT (Omaha/Council Bluffs/Lincoln) showed their lineup was all over the place, running soaps on the half-hour, game shows in the afternoons, etc...in fact, they didn't even carry the last year of $otC, opting instead to run Hour Magazine in the slot where it and (I assume) another GS previosuly ran, from 88-onward.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")