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[quote="oldecapecod11"]by Moran » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:50 pm
While visits to Toots Shor's were few and far between, many a flagon was quaffed at P.J.'s and with many a celeb in sight.
In the city that never sleeps, there is a celebrity on almost every corner. It is no big thing. It is just the way it is - or was.

Is. I've been to NYC exactly once in my lifetime. Encountered Philip Seymour Hoffman watching some playground hoops in Manhattan. BTW, Hoffman (God bless him) was a real fan of the NFL.
He played HS ball, and grew up loving NFL Films. He equated what an NFL player did on sundays with what an actor did on stage or in front of a camera. Both took tremendous skill, dedication, and intelligence. I think he was taken aback by the way some in the arts dismiss the physical intelligence inherent in athleticism.

Frank Gifford would have been 85 today.
Some remembered...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/k ... ailsignout

Here is the way remember Frank Gifford's beginnings in broadcast.

CBS Radio, specifically WCBS-AM seemed to have an art of taking New York Football Giant players and turning them into professional sportscasters, broadcasters. Perhaps the first one was Pat Summerall. He was doing spots even while he was still playing. Eventually there were Summerall, Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote, Al De Regoddis, a couple who's name escapes me. Some did post-game interviews, some color. They had a lot of announcers on Giants games.

That was a time when only road games were televised. And the TV channel showing the Giants gaames was WCBS-TV. Back then, while there were network games shown to most of the country, most used local announcers. Frank Gifford and Pat Summerall were there. There was also Marty Glickman, if I recall, but maybe not on TV? Gifford was the first to move over to the network, though he may have stayed on the radio

luckyshow wrote:Here is the way remember Frank Gifford's beginnings in broadcast.

CBS Radio, specifically WCBS-AM seemed to have an art of taking New York Football Giant players and turning them into professional sportscasters, broadcasters. Perhaps the first one was Pat Summerall. He was doing spots even while he was still playing. Eventually there were Summerall, Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote, Al De Regoddis, a couple who's name escapes me. Some did post-game interviews, some color. They had a lot of announcers on Giants games.

That was a time when only road games were televised. And the TV channel showing the Giants gaames was WCBS-TV. Back then, while there were network games shown to most of the country, most used local announcers. Frank Gifford and Pat Summerall were there. There was also Marty Glickman, if I recall, but maybe not on TV? Gifford was the first to move over to the network, though he may have stayed on the radio

Sam Huff almost certainly was another, as he did radio broadcasts for the Redskins with Sonny Jurgensen for more than 30 years.

luckyshow wrote:Here is the way remember Frank Gifford's beginnings in broadcast.

CBS Radio, specifically WCBS-AM seemed to have an art of taking New York Football Giant players and turning them into professional sportscasters, broadcasters. Perhaps the first one was Pat Summerall. He was doing spots even while he was still playing. Eventually there were Summerall, Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote, Al De Regoddis, a couple who's name escapes me. Some did post-game interviews, some color. They had a lot of announcers on Giants games.

That was a time when only road games were televised. And the TV channel showing the Giants gaames was WCBS-TV. Back then, while there were network games shown to most of the country, most used local announcers. Frank Gifford and Pat Summerall were there. There was also Marty Glickman, if I recall, but maybe not on TV? Gifford was the first to move over to the network, though he may have stayed on the radio

I think Marty Glickman did the Giant's games on the radio.