"Going Off The Grid" is a weekly survey of sports execs and personalities offering their thoughts on a handful of pressing (and trivial) issues in sports and pop culture. This week, execs offer their thoughts on virtual reality and dinner with three people of their choice.
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USATF Chief Public Affairs Officer Jill Geer
– Her toughest job in sports is Transportation Manager for a Summer Olympics.
- PBR CEO Sean Gleason
– Believes the Thunder will win this year's NBA championship.
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Chicago-based WGN-TV Dir of Sports Partnerships Jim Muno
– Would like to see a professional football team return to St. Louis.
- CAA Corporate Consultant Jon Levine
– His first job was a day camp counselor.
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Favorite movie/TV cameo by an athlete? |
Virtual Reality in 2-3 words?
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Sports moment you'll never forget?
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Guilty pleasure? |
Dinner with three people (alive or dead)?
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Geer |
Brett Favre in "There's Something About Mary"
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Motion sickness
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Michael Johnson's world record 19.32 in the 200m at the '96 Olympic Games |
HGTV
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H.L. Mencken, Peter the Great, Dorothy Parker |
Gleason
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Dan Marino in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
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Immersive educational tool
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Dolphins over Redskins, '72, 17-0 season |
'80's hair metal
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Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin in Vegas in '64
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Muno |
Hulk Hogan as Thunderlips in "Rocky III" |
Game changer |
'05 White Sox championship and parade |
Listening to Howard Stern |
Steve Jobs, Bud Selig and Derek Jeter
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Levine |
Joe Namath in "The Brady Bunch"
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Game changer |
'01 -- Yankee Stadium -- President Bush first pitch after 9/11
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Double Tito's, rocks, lime |
President Obama; mom's father who died five years before I was born; Jerry Garcia |
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