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Superstars. The Superstars was a televised sporting event featuring ten top athletes from ten different sports competing in events that were not their own. The idea was developed by Dick Button who shopped the idea to all three U.S. television networks. The show was sold to ABC which aired it as a two-hour ABC Sports special in the winter of 1973.
During the early 1960s, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle envisioned the possibility of playing at least one game weekly during prime time that could be viewed by a greater television audience (while the NFL had scheduled Saturday night games on the DuMont Television Network in 1953 and 1954, poor ratings and the dissolution of DuMont led to those games being eliminated by the time CBS took over ...
1977 in sports – Pelé plays the last game of his professional career in a friendly between the New York Cosmos and Santos FC; [3] Red Rum wins third Grand National. [4] 1976 in sports – Nadia Comăneci earns the first perfect score in the history of Olympic gymnastics. [5] Super Bowl X saw the Pittsburgh Steelers repeat as world champions.
Channel 5 (2008) Release. 31 December 1973. (1973-12-31) –. 29 December 2012. (2012-12-29) Superstars is a TV sports competition in which elite athletes from a variety of sports compete against each other in a number of events, resembling a decathlon. The athletes must not compete in the sport for which they practice as their profession.
4951. Updated on 22 June 2023. Brian Jacks (born 5 October 1946) [1] is a British judoka who won Britain's first medal at a World Championships taking a bronze in Salt Lake City 1967, [2] and gained a second bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics. [1][3]
author, actor, motivational speaker. Player stats at PFR. Robert Patrick "Rocky" Bleier (/ ˈblaɪər / BLY-ər, born March 5, 1946) is an American former professional football player and a veteran of the United States Army. He played as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1968 and from 1970 to 1980.
From left to right: Marshall, Larsen, Eller, and Page. The Purple People Eaters was a nickname for the defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from 1967 to 1977, consisting mainly of Alan Page, Carl Eller, Jim Marshall, Gary Larsen, and Doug Sutherland. The term is a reference to a popular song from 1958, the efficiency of the defense, and the ...
June 29. (2017-06-29) –. September 7, 2017. (2017-09-07) Battle of the Network Stars is a series of competitions in which television stars from ABC, CBS and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of 19 of these competitions were held between 1976 and 1988, all of which were aired by ABC. In 2003, NBC attempted to revive Battle ...