On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:20 PM, televisiongirl <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Don Meredith, the Cowboys' first real star, Monday-night NFL >> broadcaster, passed last night following a brain haemorrhage in a >> Santa Fe hospital. 72. >> > > > Frank Gifford was just on ESPN's halftime show. He had a number of really > nice things to say but was nearly crying at the end of the interview. Very > sad. > It was an unusually honest moment for this kind of thing. But Frank was not too sad to take out the knife and stick it a little to Howard. He also said that MNF drove "I Love Lucy" off the air, but he must have meant "Here's Lucy", which went off the air in 1974, which would have been (I think) MNF's 4th season. I was a young kid when MNF started - young enough that my regular bedtime was an hour before the games usually ended around 9:00 pm in CA. When I explained to my Mom that they were going to have football games on Monday night and I wanted to stay up to watch it, she was sure I was trying to pull a fast one on her just to stay up. I had to sit her down in front of the TV to watch the beginning with me. I had to agree to get my homework done before 6:00, and to go to bed an hour early on Tuesday night, in order to get her to let me stay up, both of which I happily did for all of that first season. I could not get enough of both Don and Howard (Frank would not join the party for another year). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
