Alan Thicke

I could have changed it.

That's true too.

When you're writing a sitcom, you get away with whatever you can, or the writers would go nuts in the writers' room for all the hours they have to spend there.

So they did come up with some favorite names.

For instance, the name of our high school was Dewey High School, and the name of the team was the Hooters.

So the Dewey Hooters were the football squad of record.

And their proudest moment was when they managed to nickname the other neighbors, a fellow named Stabone, they nicknamed him Boner, and they got that past the censors and went with that for seven years.

Well, if you've seen some of the censors at the network, you'd understand how they would be somehow removed from contemporary colloquial sexual references.

I played a little college football.

I was a receiver and a punter.

My career ended when I was in mid-air punting one day and got hit high and low from either side, and that was the end of my cartilage.

So I became the football reporter for my university paper and wanted to expand that into a career covering the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League, and I never made it that far.

I would have something to do with hockey.

I'd probably be the color commentator for the home games of the L.A.

Kings.

Send somebody else on the road, but I'd be happy to do a little color comedy.

I have some other Florida hockey history.

I sang the anthem at the very first ever Tampa Bay Lightning home game.

I was already womaned up at the time.

I like that.