How Football Officials Know When To Call A “TV TIME OUT”
How NFL TV Timeouts Were Handled Early On…
Back in the 50s and 60s, televised pro football had what were called “hat men” on the sidelines. They were connected by headphone to the director and here, from the Washington Evening Star, is an October 8, 1963 article on what their job was. Thanks to Maureen Carney for the image. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
“Today”…60 Years Ago Martin & Lewis, With Jerry Running Camera The video at the link above is cued to start just before Dean and Jerry Come out to close the live “Today” show from Atlantic City, July 26, 1956. Soon after, Jerry takes over the RCA TK30 equipped with a new RCA Electrazoom lens. Garroway […]
‘Star Trek’…Intro To The Second Pilot, Unaired This may be the only show that had two different pilot episodes. This is the opening from the second pilot ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’ and this segment was never aired, but, the rest of this pilot did air as the third episode that had the new […]
The Poor Bastards Never Had A Chance…The NABET Strike, 1987 As we know, Dave loves to play with the staff and crew, but when the technicians strike rolled around, management had to step in and Letterman pulled all the stops to “play” with them. This should start at the intro to ‘Dave’s Record Collection’ which […]
Exclusive New Photos From NBC Brooklyn…2 of 4 Thanks to Peter Katz, here is another of four photos taken on the set of ‘Amahl And The Night Visitors’ at NBC Brooklyn. After posting the first one yesterday and mentioning the show was finally recorded in color in 1963, we found out that someone accidentally erased […]
Isn’t this how it is still handled? I knew 2 people who were assigned as a ‘Red Cap’ for Buffalo Bills games in the past. Besides the cap, one used day glow red gloves for signaling the Referee for time outs.
People in the stands are a tad confused at times but at home watching TV they are clueless.
Was sideline SM for a college game years ago. My problem I was on a wired headset nailed down at the 15 yard line and almost all the action was at the far end of the field. I flapped the red had as much as I could to get the ref’s attention. Of course, the truck had put an extra time out into first quarter and that pissed the refs.