Melissa Manchester ain’t no Ella Fitzgerald…..as we at ImaSportsphile don’t think she can break a crystal glass with one of her high notes…..whereas, we are pretty dang sure that Ella can….and when you think of Memorex tv ads….you think of Ella Fitzgerald. The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983….which starred Richard…
Qualifying for the Daytona 500 is unique in NASCAR….when only the two front row starters….the pole and “outside pole”….are determined by the standard knockout qualifying system…..whereas, for all other drivers it only determines their starting position in their duel with odd placed cars being entered into the first duel and even placed cars going in the…
Rapid Rick Mears is one of our favorite Indy Car driver…..cuz we like to call him Pole Sitter Rick…..as he seemed to own the pole position at the Indy 500…..where he sat on the pole a record 6 times in his 12 starts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In the 1987 Indy 500….Rapid Rick along with fellow Roger…
We are so fortunate here at ImaSportsphile to have so much video content with ABC broadcast legend Jim McKay behind the mike…..for this was a sportscaster of “elegance and eloquence”…..in everything he called….and when you add Super Mario being interview by ABC’s Jack Arute…..and you have a video well worth the price of admission….so, enjoy this interview…
Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, Saturday Night Live would always have a comedic television commercial that would air on each week’s program…..as evidenced by this Joe Garagiola (Brian Schaefer) pitch for why to buy a Chrysler Corporation Car…..which was during the time that Chrysler was going into bankruptcy…..as it made for good comedy as…
The Swarm is a 1978 American disaster-horror film about a killer bee invasion of Texas….which was adapted from a novel of the same name by Arthur Herzog…..and directed by Irwin Allen….with a cast featuring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda…..which received negative reviews….and was a box-office failure…. however, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume…
Since 1979, there have been many different brands of women’s vitamins to come and go over the past 40+/- years…..and FemIron Womens Vitamins is one that went…..as there is no reference material about FemIron……but No Nonsense Panty Hose are alive and well in 2019…..as this company now offers men’s panty hose….so, the world has obviously changed….but panty…
This video seen herewith….provides a wonderful inside the cockpit look at Mario Andretti’s Lola car at the 1987 Indy 500….as ABC’s Sam Posey provides the narrative of what it is like functioning in the driver’s seat while traveling 200 mph….which is 300 feet per second…..as Posey shows the public all of the gauges, lights and…
Stan Barrett is a Hollywood stuntman, stunt coordinator, actor and former stock car racing driver….whose biggest achievement was outside the movie world….when on December 17, 1979, he attempted to break the land speed record….and the sound barrier in the Budweiser Rocket rocket-powered three-wheel vehicle. His calculated speed was 739.666 miles per hour (Mach 1.01)….which would have made Barrett the first man to break the sound barrier in a…