Two popular professional sports teams, each consisting of three of its players, competed in a game of sports trivia. The teams could be made up of former players or members of the current team, solely dependent on who the show's producers were able to book. In the first four later three rounds, the teams were shown film clips of great moments in sports history. After each clip, host Enberg read a toss-up question about it to both teams.
It was Jan. So John Wooden had them hold the ball and stall, a tactic that was within the rules in the era before the shot clock. But it was also a tactic that created an obvious problem for a broadcaster with lots of dead air to fill. Enberg did what he could.
Raise your hand if you remember Sports Challenge. Almost no one here remembers Sports Challenge? Maybe you know it as the one that ran for eight years on a major network. How about the one that was announced by Dick Enberg, one of the top sportscasters of our time.