Xavier Balson

October 3, 1982 SUMMERALL AND MADDEN CALL DIVISION-III COLLEGE FOOTBALL During the fall of 1982, in the midst of the NFLPA's 57-day players' strike, CBS needed to get creative with their Sunday afternoon programming. So on October 3, the network sent Pat Summerall and John Madden to Springfield, Ohio to call Division-III Wittenberg's game against their rival Baldwin-Wallace — each school with an enrollment then of about 2,000 students. Three other NFL on CBS broadcast teams called Division-III games that weekend as well. Both Wittenberg and Baldwin-Wallace, as well as the Ohio Athletic Conference, were paid $10,000 each for the game. The video includes the CBS open and pregame introduction by Pat and John, the first several minutes of the game, as well as some select highlights from the historic CBS broadcast. Certainly a very rare and fascinating broadcast — and I'm sure quite a thrill for those players, coaches, students, and communities.