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Originally posted by BobbyTheDon
Ohio U also boast, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton! I listen to him EVERYDAY on extra sports 690 and 1150
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Bobby,
When I was directing some NFL Football for NBC, I was doing a San Diego at Dallas game (Trying to think of our color commentator's name -- former Charger and now SD TV guy -- I'm sure you know who I mean). Anyway, I was checking out of the hotel and Lee Hamilton came up and introduced himself. (That's not his real name, BTW) We were undergraduates together, although he's a year or two younger than me. We had a good chat. We had not seen each other since college. That was at least ten years ago. Later that day as I arrived back at the Denver airport, someone called my name, and it was a former girlfriend from Ohio U. who was just passing through. Interesting day.
In those years at OU, we also had Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page (now with the Trib Syndicate) and Joe Esterhaus who wrote FlashDance and a bunch of other screenplays working at the Ohio University Post -- the then student newspaper.
OU was, and is, a great Radio/TV and J. School.
Sorry for the hijack.
ETA -- I remember Roman Gabriel, very good pro QB. Rams and then Chargers? Memory get a little fuzzy.