RIP Greg Gumbel

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Greg Gumbel revealing the bracket every year on selection Sunday was one of my favorite times of the year

You'd get an instant lesson in nicknames every time. "And Kentucky will face the No. 15 seed, South Dakota State, the Jackrabbits!"

 

[I Should Coco]

Prior to joining ESPN, he was on locally in Chicago, and had a report on Disco Demolition:

Johnny Morris and Bill Kurtis! My parents were regular WBBM Channel 2 news viewers (although I was only 7 at this time, so I would have been asleep by the time these 10 p.m. newscasts aired).

No sign of Lorelei, the blonde WLUP girl who rode around with big bad Steve Dahl in the Jeep. Not the first and certainly not the last publicity stunt of Dahl’s career, but the most infamous.

 

[Typist Clerk]

Johnny Morris and Bill Kurtis! My parents were regular WBBM Channel 2 news viewers (although I was only 7 at this time, so I would have been asleep by the time these 10 p.m. newscasts aired).

No sign of Lorelei, the blonde WLUP girl who rode around with big bad Steve Dahl in the Jeep. Not the first and certainly not the last publicity stunt of Dahl’s career, but the most infamous.

Plus Jim Ruddle of Channel 5 right at the start, and Chuck Henry with Greg.

 

[I Should Coco]

Plus Jim Ruddle of Channel 5 right at the start, and Chuck Henry with Greg.

There were a lot of national broadcasters who came through Chicago in that era, and through WMAQ (Channel 5/NBC) in particular.

Besides Greg Gumbel and Bill Kurtis, there were Deborah Norville and Lester Holt, both of whom worked in Chicago in the 1980s.

 

[HanSenSE]

Prior to joining ESPN, he was on locally in Chicago, and had a report on Disco Demolition:

On top of all of that, nice to see original Comiskey again.