Maury Povich
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Really?
Yeah.
I started out in TV as the 10 o'clock news sportscaster in Washington on Channel 5, where my hometown.
And I used to cover the then Washington Redskins, and George Allen was the coach.
He was kind of a... He was kind of a Belichick before Belichick kind of a guy.
Mm-hmm.
You know, never liked reporters and everything.
Got yoga very late in life.
Right.
So...
One day I'm in the locker room and I see, and this is the 70s, okay?
And so in the 70s, there are a lot of stories about drugs that players were using, these illicit drugs in order to pump up and other stuff, have cocaine outside the game and all that.
And so there's this bottle of pills and it could have been salt pills.
I mean, I didn't know.
I mean, who knows?
So I said, coach, can you tell me what's in that bottle?
And he says, Mari, this is 1973.
He says, Mari, are you with us or against us?
And I said to myself, I got to get out of sports.
I just got to.