Dating Plan: Yeah, That’s the Ticket
In a classified ad in a Tampa area newspaper, Michael Muhlbaier offered to sell a ticket to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ playoff game today against the Washington Redskins for $1--but only to a woman who would accompany him to the game on a date.
He got nearly 300 messages on his answering machine and 57 faxes--and that was early in the week. Two women learned his address and left notes on his porch.
Muhlbaier said he was simply having fun and looking for some company while he watches the game. The ad started as a bet between Muhlbaier and a friend, who dared him to follow through.
In any event, he disappointed a lot of women by selecting only one as his date.
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Trivia time: Who holds the NBA record for personal fouls in a season?
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The real Rocker? From comedy writer Jerry Perisho: “Atlanta Brave pitcher John Rocker gave his first interview Wednesday since his inflammatory comments appeared in Sports Illustrated.
“When the interview was over, Rocker slipped his white hood over his head and the Grand Wizard drove him home.”
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He isn’t laughing: Comedian Richard Lewis said he is deeply disturbed by two Ohio State basketball media guides that refer to him as a drunk.
Lewis, 52, is listed on a page in the 1999-2000 men’s and women’s media guides with other famous alumni and a brief description of their accomplishments. Under Lewis’ name are the words “actor, writer, comedian, drunk.”
Athletic Director Andy Geiger has apologized and promised to investigate.
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Creepy: In Spokane, Wash., five prosecutors and a defense attorney play on a recreation-league hockey team called Corpus Delict-ice. Their jerseys sport chalk-outline figures like the ones you see on the ground at crime scenes.
The lawyers, no fools, play in the no-body-checking division.
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No hang-up: Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon, who died Tuesday at 79, once said of his pitching career, “I never took the game home with me. I always left it at some bar.”
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More Lemon: Ronald Reagan once played Grover Cleveland Alexander in a movie called “The Winning Team,” and Lemon was hired to teach him how to look like a pitcher.
Years later, when Reagan was governor of California, he showed up at an Angel game, and owner Gene Autry took him around to meet the team.
“This is our pitching coach,” Autry said when they got to Lemon’s locker. “I know,” Reagan said. “I had him before you did.”
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Trivia answer: Darryl Dawkins of New Jersey, 386 in 1983-84.
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And finally: Randy Galloway in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones firing Coach Chan Gailey:
“Jones, in a totally classless act, delayed the inevitable for 48 hours, allowing Chan to be roughed up some more by the radio talking dogs. . . .
” . . . Chan’s failure in this job also means that Jerry hasn’t done a damn thing right, football-wise, in six years and counting.”