[God luvs America]

Of course conservative Al Michaels had to set them straight and let them know Jennings had been had...

[CharlesOConnell]

At the close of the 1982 L.A. Olympics, with the quenching of the Olympic Flame, actor Richard Basehart was reciting the ancient Greek Poet, Pindar’s “Ode to Fire”.

Peter Jennings was wired on coffee, wouldn’t shut up, so you couldn’t hear the stirring poem.

[dfwgator]

I remember Michaels talking with Howard Stern about it, he said he was laughing the whole time, and couldn’t believe that Jennings was falling for it, and debated whether or not he should clue Jennings in on it.