Dick Button and Bud Palmer - Post 1961 Nationals
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@jmburry The toupee' helps!
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@altfactor I read recently that Jim McKay was supposed to be the main host of the Winter Games in Squaw Valley but had a mental breakdown so Walter Cronkite took over.Jim later switched to ABC and history was born.
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Bud Palmer is a smoothie! He does the presentation of the 1961 Monaco GP ...
A great, plainly a gentleman of considerable stature.
The world needs more Bud Palmers.
2 years ago 2
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Dick talks about hoping to keep up the good US showing, and then later on they had that crash that would kill all of that strong skating talent, and we wouldn't rebound until 1966 when Peggy Fleming would come on the scene.
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I think this aired on CBS.
ABC's "Wide World Of Sports", which for over three decades had a "lock" on major figure-skating events, didn't premiere until April of 1961.
It's my understanding Dick Button's first broadcast as a skating analyst was at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics for CBS.
It's my understanding he'll be one of NBC's skating commentors at Vancouver in 2010, which will give him fifty years as a newtork sports analyst.
That's got to be a record.
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Dick Button was a handsome guy back then! Where did you find this TV coverage?
4 years ago 2
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Yes Agreed! Dick Button was an extremely good-looking guy ...and I'm going to go out on a limb here and even say that Dick Button was Frggin' HOT! He really has made his mark on Figure skating and is a living legend!
jmburry 2 years ago 3
gah! dick button is IMMORTAL
Taan123 1 year ago 2