Tell me this don't get you pumped!

[Brock Landers]

They should bring this back

[THE PROFIT]

cant say that its all that great

[Holtgetsback]

I was waiting for that guy to get hit for the whole ten years they ran that introduction

[Brock Landers]

cant say that its all that great

pretty cool for 1983, Vets like FISHHEAD and JJGOLD would appreciate it

[BeatTheJerk]

It shows your seniority actually.

[Brock Landers]

It shows your seniority actually.

i'm a history buff..this graphic i remember from when i was 9 years old

[THE PROFIT]

I was 7

[stealthyburrito]

i wasn't even a sperm.

[Brock Landers]

LT Profits would appreciate this

[THE PROFIT]

i wasn't even a sperm.

You weren't even a drunken glazed look in your daddys eye yet

[maersksealand]

[Brock Landers]

MS, WTF is with this propaganda??

[Sunde91]

I'm ready to run through a wall after watching both of those videos

[JohnGalt2341]

That's not bad. But what I like even better is the Old School Monday Night Football music. Back in the early to mid 80's there was probably nothing I looked forward to more than Monday Night Football.

[Brock Landers]

Jimmy "The Greek"!

[Brock Landers]

The Original MNF Theme..

[M@ximo]

its good..., but can be better....

[Snowball]

Tron movie knockoff.

[JohnGalt2341]

The Original MNF Theme..

I literally got goosebumps on my arms hearing that just now. No lie.

[Brock Landers]

JJGOLD, what is your opinion.

Fish, you got one??

[will2survive]

was 12 ---I think that it's cool--I remember when Jimmy The Greek Had a Picks contest on the phone.I would enter it and my mom would ask me--what's this on the phone bill? I would crap in my pants----He would pronounce The Bengals ----"Cincinnata".

I also remember sports phone original : 976 -1313 ----the counted as local calls and I had to fess up to my mon on why there was 255 local phone calls for the month

[Brock Landers]

Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Snyder

TV career

As a football commentator on television, Snyder was controversial. He would often give his picks for winners of games and touted his ability to make the right picks, which critics claimed were indirectly encouraging gambling. Snyder countered by saying that he never gave the spread of the games, so his picks couldn't be considered an endorsement of gambling. According to the autobiography entitled Jimmy the Greek by Jimmy Snyder, Steve Herskowitz (editor), and Mickey Herskowitz, he bet $10,000 USD on the 1948 election between Thomas Dewey and Harry S. Truman, getting 17:1 odds for Truman to win.
Snyder also commentated The World Series of Poker from 1973-1979.
On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy The Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell. Commentary was provided by, among others, Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Phyllis George from The NFL Today, plus one of Jimmy's sons, as well as a brother and sister.
Jimmy was also endorsed various companies, including Tuffy Auto Centers.


Controversy

On January 16, 1988, he was fired by the CBS network (where he was a contributor to the NFL Today program since 1976) after commenting to WRC-TV reporter Ed Hotaling in a Washington, D.C. restaurant that African Americans were naturally superior athletes at least in part because they had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery:
“ The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way — because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. This goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trading, the owner — the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid. ” According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments, remarking: "What a foolish thing to say."