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Giants Football Game - Keep Your Knees Loose
Airdate: Friday - September 29, 1972 (Airdate Confirmed)

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

One, two, three, four. . . .

Show Description

"The Glove" - Paul Headland a foul ball fanatic in Cleveland Playing the Sousaphone in school More foul ball talk Pro football season Shep gets a ticket to the Giants/Colts game from the owner of the Limelight. In the 4th qtr he decides to go get hot dogs and is down in the end zone working his way back to his seat when all of a sudden he gets by by a football which was kicked for a field goal. His hands were full and his misses the ball!

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
05:15		Foul Ball Fanatic

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
16:12	This is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
16:21	Live Concert / Performance	Carnegie Hall
20:07	Shoetown
21:20	New York Times Sunday Magazine
22:26	Wolffs Kasha
23:35	General Tire

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
01:58	The Bear Missed the Train
04:49; 08:56	Stars and Stripes Forever
16:21	Also Sprach Zarathustra

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
25:15	Jerry Lambert

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
13:29	People		Schwartz, Paul
13:39	People		Dunker, Ernie
13:39	People		Roller, Freddy
15:39	People		Longnecker, Alic
16:21	Live Shows		Carnegie Hall

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		September 29, 1972	Giants Football Game - Keep Your Knees Loose	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	January 22, 2008

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