44 years ago today, Pat Summerall and John Madden called a Division-III college football game.
Wittenberg vs. Baldwin-Wallace
October 3, 1982
During the fall of '82, in the second week of the NFLPA's 57-day players' strike, CBS needed to get creative with its Sunday afternoon programming.
So on October 3, the network sent its top NFL broadcast team of Pat Summerall and John Madden to Springfield, Ohio to call Division-III Wittenberg's game against its rival Baldwin-Wallace — each school with an enrollment then of about 2,000 students.
Three other NFL on CBS broadcast teams were also assigned to call Division-III games that weekend.
Wittenberg, Baldwin-Wallace, and the Ohio Athletic Conference were each paid $10,000 for the game.
The video includes the CBS open and pregame introduction by Pat and John, the first several minutes of the game, and select highlights from this historic CBS broadcast.
A very rare and fascinating telecast — and quite a thrill for those players, coaches, students, and communities.
@JesseKellyDC My dad was in the Quartermaster Corps in around 1948-50. He was sent to Greenland to test cold weather gear. After Greenland he unit was sent directly to Arizona to see how they reacted going from extreme cold to extreme hot weather.
There was a small bees nest in a baseball dugout, so this farm looking old man was called in to get rid of it. How does he do it? With his barehand of course. A damn savage.
Craziest video you’ll see today. No doubt dude got stung and he reacted like nothing happened. You couldn’t pay me enough to do this
An #OKPrepsFlashback to 2006 with the Mark Rodgers Oklahoma Pigskin Preview featuring Pre-Season Top 10, All-Stars and Projected District Finishes for CLASS 6A
2006 CLASS 6A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
JENKS (13-1) over ENID (9-5) 28-7
JENKS coach: Allan Trimble
ENID coach: Tom Cobble
DISTRICT CHAMPIONS
6A-1: LAWTON
6A-2: WESTMOORE
6A-3: UNION
6A-4: BOOKER T WASHINGTON
JENKS finished 2nd in District 6A-4 when they lost to BOOKER T WASHINGTON 43-37
ENID finished 4th in District 6A-3 with a 4-3 record
Let's talk about some of these #OKPreps players and teams!
@JenksFootball@JTFootball_com@EnidAthletics@markrsports
@KalshiFB You got another list dead wrong. Louis Sharpe was a good lineman but you’ve never heard of Dan Deirdorf or Conrad Dobler, or Tom Banks. And Larry Wilson or Aneaus Williams aren’t in the secondary? Really?