The NBC telecast of March’s WGC Dell Match-Play golf tournament went to commercial, and the personnel began to exchange off-the-air barbs. With the NCAA basketball championship in the headlines, the guy who had played in a title game provided a convenient target.
Why, the dart-throwing colleagues asked sportscaster Terry Gannon, didn’t you make the winning shot for N.C. State’s “Cardiac Pack” with the 1983 crown at stake? Why, they wanted to know, why .... on and on.
Suddenly, Peter Jacobson, prompted by the newest guy on the crew, piped up, “Don’t give Terry such a hard time.