{"id":20104,"date":"2020-05-18T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=20104"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:11:45","slug":"obit-watch-may-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=20104","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 18, 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/phyllis-george-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phyllis George<\/a>, former Miss America and former co-host of &#8220;The NFL Today&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/phyllis-george-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hired as a co-host of CBS Sports\u2019s weekly pregame football show \u2014 which featured the high-profile hosts Brent Musburger and Irv Cross and the gambling commentator Jimmy Snyder, or Jimmy the Greek, as he was known \u2014 Ms. George immediately became the most prominent woman in sportscasting.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/phyllis-george-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">But with her beauty-queen background and her modest television r\u00e9sum\u00e9, she was criticized for lacking the traditional sportscaster credentials. She was not a former sportswriter, like Mr. Musburger, and she was obviously not a retired football player, like Mr. Cross.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/phyllis-george-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She responded to her critics by saying that she knew enough about sports, especially football, to get by.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/phyllis-george-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI\u2019m from Texas,\u201d she told People magazine in 1976, \u201cand down there you follow the Texas Longhorns and the Dallas Cowboys or you don\u2019t belong.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Excuse me?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She was married twice: to John Y. Brown Jr., former Governor of Kentucky, and Robert Evans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/plane-crash-kamloops-1.5573930\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Jenn Casey<\/a>, Royal Canadian Air Force. She was a public affairs officer with the Snowbirds demonstration team: the plane she was in crashed during a demo in Kamloops yesterday. The pilot, Captain Richard MacDougall, ejected but suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcthag.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/out-of-envelope.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McThag has some thoughts on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phyllis George, former Miss America and former co-host of &#8220;The NFL Today&#8221;. Hired as a co-host of CBS Sports\u2019s weekly pregame football show \u2014 which featured the high-profile hosts Brent Musburger and Irv Cross and the gambling commentator Jimmy Snyder, or Jimmy the Greek, as he was known \u2014 Ms. George immediately became the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,35,16,21,80,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-nfl","category-obits","category-planes","category-sports","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20106,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions\/20106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}