I would call him and talk to him. I think it was a pretty good depiction of our experience.With today's TV scene, do you think someone with Jimmy's personality would work in today's market?Absolutely.
I thought it was a pretty good description of our situation with The NFL Today and Jimmy The Greek. Also, with fantasy, it started with that as well.It seems like Every time someone says something dumb in the media that Jimmy is brought up. There were NFC teams there that were hot. I'm sure it was less saturated then it is now. Oh, and in the southwest, we had the Dallas Cowboys, who was becoming America's Team. Probably a Super Bowl.
How much bigger did it make the CBS show, since it was one of just a couple on the air at that time?That's really the key, it was huge. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." “Phyllis George was special. Cross joined CBS' NFL team in 1971, when he became the first African-American to work full-tim as a sports analyst on national TV. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football."
There are a lot of them. In my view, he was not a racist. He helped many student athletets secure aid.Irv, a lot of people don't realize you played in the NFL. Miss America in 1971, George joined Brent Musburger and Irv Cross in 1975 on “The NFL Today.” Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder later was added to the cast. I think I covered 17 Super Bowls over the years and enjoyed every one of them.
We had the NFC and we just dominated those markets.Did you stay in contact with Jimmy after his dismissal from CBS?I did. At CBS, we had the major markets, New York, Chicago, LA and Philadelphia, the top four TV markets. Cross was employed as an analyst and commentator for CBS Sports from 1971, when he became the first African-American to work full-time as a sports analyst on national television, to 1994. On Tuesday, we'll have Irv Cross, former co-worker of Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder stopping by to talk about "30 for 30 is an unprecedented documentary series featuring 30 films from some of today's finest storytellers, detailing the events that transformed the sports landscape from 1979 to 2009.
THat's about it.Did you know much about Jimmy before you started working with him at CBS?I knew of him, because as a player, we were aware of Jimmy's presence. There was no personality on the show more popular than Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder.
He was embarrassed by what happened. Welcome to SportsNation! He made a dumb statement and he apologized for it. now, that's not the case, there's more competition for those markets. He was looking over the game plan and he said he thought he might throw 5 TD passes. November 18, 2018 10:22 PM.
Cross played for the Philadelphia Eagles (1961–1965, 1969) and Los Angeles Rams (1966–1968). I won't read the letter to you, but I have one in which he apologized to me.
Football Sundays back in the 1970s all started the same way, as Irv Cross' deep voice echoed out of the television speakers, when he … We were often reminded to stay away form giving information to gamblers. It seemed like the floor was pulled out from him and his career ended abruptly. People aren't thinking along the lines of strategy.
IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. ET!Irv Cross is on his way over for the chat right now! that … Cross was the co-anchor for "The NFL Today" when it started in 1975 and he and Snyder worked together from 1979-87.Send your questions now and join Cross Tuesday at 3 p.m. I agree with you that often times people don't look beyond what's been printed. He was no longer Jimmy the Greek, he was someone who had everything he worked hard for taken away from him. We would know going into games, that we were favored or down.