ESPN's College GameDay has anchored the network's Saturday slate since 1987. Now in its 33rd season, the series is a traveling road show, a means of promoting, in most cases, the Saturday Night Football game of the week.
This wasn't always the case. From 1987-93, the series was just another ESPN studio show. Beginning with the 1993 season, the road show began to take shape, a signature of the show being analyst Lee Corso--the only co-host remaining from 1987, mind you--donning a replica head of a team mascot of one of the teams in that day's featured contest.
The country duo Big & Rich recorded a variant on their song, "Comin' to Your City", as GameDay's theme song.
On this week's show (November 2), the tour came to Memphis, where local icon Jerry "The King" Lawler joins the panel. Corso's dressed as the other King--Elvis Presley. But, as you'll see in this clip, Corso takes his cues from Lawler's more familiar milieu, the wrestling ring.
To think they didn't pull this stunt when the Undertaker appeared on the show last month.......
Rating: A-.
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