Yes, I was raised on television. I had one in my room as a kid. This probably had short and long range bad effects on me.<\/p>\n
That being said… I am always happy to discover something obscure. Even more so because I’ve made one of my first posts to Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n When I was a kid… (Let’s avoid the references to when the rocks were soft) there were 3 main stations. ABC, NBC, and CBS. (There was PBS, and a bunch of hard to tune UHF stations as well)… Oh yeah.. there was a lot of fuzzy white-noise space between them.<\/p>\n My one thrill a year was a program called, “Battle of the Network Stars.<\/a>” Back before greed had gotten out of control, the three networks would collaborate to host a series of fun physical challenges between teams made from the stars of their prime time shows.<\/p>\n The show stared Howard Cosell<\/a> as sports commentator. Cosell was a television institution that I regret is slowly fading from memory and history.<\/p>\n The show was fun. There was an obstacle course, tug of war, swimming, even one year a pinball contest (which ironically was quickly lost by Elton John) But my fondest memory was of “Simon Says.” Not even really a part of the competition it was one man calling the game vs. most of the stars. And the caller was deadly. For years… I’ve tried to remember anything I can about it. Some of my friends have even fallen prey to my ability to make them lose “Simon Says” in less than 5 moves.<\/p>\n Well tonight while YouTube surfing on my AppleTV (A prize I won at work for helping to test our software), I found a video of Simon Says. The video gave me the master’s name. “Lou Goldstein<\/a>” (Who despite being probably 80<\/b> may still be travelling and entertaining. Damn those Borscht Belt<\/a> mensches!<\/i>)<\/p>\n So, I appended the article<\/a>. There was no information on Goldstein. The article now references him and includes an external link to the footage<\/a>.<\/p>\n In some ways it may seem dated. But it’s a pearl of history. And I’m very, VERY, VERY<\/b> happy to see it still exists. I wish I could explain the really warm feeling I got… get from putting this piece of Television history in Wikipedia.<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>