Live Stream: New York Giants Victory Parade

Hey, is that a float honoring our Iraq vets? Nope. 

Another disgusting use of the word, “hero.”

 THE 1983 SUPER BOWL GAME INTERRUPTED

                                    BY

                            ALAN ABEL

     
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Hermadite •  New York, New
York  •           Here’s an
exclusive scoop sports fans. During the Super Bowl game of 1983 (Miami Dolphins
vs Washington Redskins) at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, referee Jerry
Markreit suddenly halted the game in the 3rd quarter when he realized an
additional official had whistled down 4 prior plays.

                     As NBC
cameras focused on the overhead blimp,and stayed there, 123,000 fans in the stands
shouted and applauded when a heavyset policeman chased the phony Back Judge
down the sidelines. Both teams watched this Mack Sennett comedy in disbelief.
The cop collared the imposter and the crowd booed its displeasure.

                     Redskin
running back John Riggins, still laughing with the others, told his team it was
time to turn the game around and win! And so they did! BTW the fake uniformed
Back Judge was actor/athlete Ray Williams and the cop was actor Frank Murgalo.
It was a great caper and is fully described in a forthcoming book, “Abel
Raises Cain,” bound to become a best-seller.

         PS
A few years ago actor/writer Paul Hiatt, a member of the Merry Pranksters, was
driving a NJ cab with passenger John Riggins. Riggins corroborated the charade
on that Super Bowl day and added:

      “we were not favored to win and
down by 14 points; the hoax stunt made us all laugh so hard we lost our tension
and energized our resolve to win.”

    
Nevertheless, the NFL decided to deny the event occurred and warned
reporters they could lose future junkets if they covered it. The Time-Life
photo department destroyed all their still photos. Most others complied except
Phil Reisman with Gannett Newspapers and Mal Sharp, a San Francisco radio
reporter. Then too, there were 123,000 witnesses.