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I used to watch "George Micheal's Sports Machine" every Sunday night.

RIP George.

1 posted on 12/24/2009 8:14:54 AM PST by PallMal
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RIP George


2 posted on 12/24/2009 8:17:17 AM PST by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: PallMal
Oh man, same here. RIP.


3 posted on 12/24/2009 8:18:33 AM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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The Sports Machine was a late Sunday night ritual in my house for many many years. RIP George...you ruled it.


4 posted on 12/24/2009 8:19:37 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
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Good Guy from what I can tell. RIP. Prayers up for him and his family.

He is part of one of the funniest video clips out there.

Model Falls on Runway!

5 posted on 12/24/2009 8:20:02 AM PST by frogjerk
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Good guy, and DC institution. So sad for his family at this time of year. QDEP.


7 posted on 12/24/2009 8:24:08 AM PST by La Lydia
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I remember him when he was local in DC.


9 posted on 12/24/2009 8:24:54 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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Impossible to imagine ESPN without the Sports Machine. It redefined sports coverage, although he will never be credited as such. RIP.


10 posted on 12/24/2009 8:31:58 AM PST by montag813
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To: PallMal

RIP.


12 posted on 12/24/2009 8:33:57 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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He also was a DJ on Musicradio WABC in New York during the 70’s.


13 posted on 12/24/2009 8:34:46 AM PST by Revenge of Sith
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He was a good guy RIP


14 posted on 12/24/2009 8:34:46 AM PST by Mac from Cleveland ("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
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Used to see him on the local news when I lived in the D.C. area. He loved horses. I remember he lived on a big horse ranch out in Maryland somewhere and when the ‘96 blizzard snowed him in, the news station picked him up by helicopter.


15 posted on 12/24/2009 8:46:48 AM PST by lazypadawan
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Wow, I remember him when I was a kid, if there is a sportscaster Hall of Fame he’s sooo in there, RIP


18 posted on 12/24/2009 8:57:24 AM PST by cmsgop
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I still have a videotape I made of “plays of the month” and “bloopers of the month” over the years. He was truly a pioneer, and excellent at his job.


20 posted on 12/24/2009 9:30:34 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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When serving in Okinawa George’s Sports Machine was *the* link back to reality...never missed a tape delayed episode on FEN...


21 posted on 12/24/2009 9:39:02 AM PST by mugamba
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First the Redskins die, now George Michael. Well heck.


22 posted on 12/24/2009 9:57:51 AM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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Though Michael was made obsolete with the increasing success of ESPN's SportsCenter program, many of the things pioneered on the George Michael Sports Machine show became de rigueur on SportsCenter.

He will be missed.

23 posted on 12/24/2009 11:48:18 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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George Gimball (real name). I rememeber him at WFIL in Phaildelphia during the Sixties.


24 posted on 12/24/2009 11:48:57 AM PST by Publius (Do you want the people who run Amtrak to take out your appendix?)
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Damn it I though you meant the homo who ruined christmas song forever with the horrid “Last Christmas”! Anywho RIP!


25 posted on 12/24/2009 6:44:56 PM PST by crazydad
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Remember watching him on AFN while stationed in Germany. Always liked watching him. Prayers for his family.


26 posted on 12/24/2009 11:52:49 PM PST by politicalamity
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Oh wow... I listened to this man every night while I was in my room doing my homework back in the ‘60s. He was a DJ on WFIL (560am) in the Philly area. I even won “Boss Beads” from him in a contest one night. Another time he played a request from some girl I asked out on a date. The song was ‘Together’ by the Intruders and it was dedicated to me, by name. Yikes, that was embarrassing...

Anyway, rest in peace George Michael, along with my long gone youth.


27 posted on 12/25/2009 12:01:54 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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