OLYMPIC TRIALS FINALIST WILL BE ON FEAR FACTOR MONDAY NIGHT

[mikepv1]

Way to go, April!!! That's so awesome!!! I'm so excited that a pole vaulter won!!! *explodes* LOL Just kidding. I didn't explode, but that is awesome.

[Scott Go Pre]

First April wins Fear Factor. I wonder who will be the next pole vaulter on a reality show. I hope that I will be on Survivor next year (after i turn 21 of course). But i wonder if there will be a pole vaulting reality show in the future?!

[Mecham]

But i wonder if there will be a pole vaulting reality show in the future?!

How would it work? Would there be people who dont know how to pole vault learn and try to have a competition, or would there just be sweet polevaulters hanging out in a house for 3 months and having competitions?

How would a pole vaulting reality show work? Or what would be the perfect pole vaulting reality show?

[polecat]

Pole vaulters winning reality shows is certainly nothing new. Anybody old enough to remember the ABC "Superstars" competitions? In retrospect, this was probably the first "reality" show. This was in 70's heyday of network only, pre-ESPN sports programming, when someone dreamed up "made for TV" sports competitions to fill the dead time in the winter months. One of the first of these was the "Superstars" competition, and, as I recall, a host of sports superstars of the time like Johnny Bench and Smokin' Joe Frazier were trounced by a somewhat little known (outside of track) pole vaulter named Bob Seagren. As I recall, Bob won the Superstars two years in a row and became more well known for the Superstars shows than he was for being a top pole vaulter.

[Mecham]

Pole vaulters winning reality shows is certainly nothing new. Anybody old enough to remember the ABC "Superstars" competitions? In retrospect, this was probably the first "reality" show. This was in 70's heyday of network only, pre-ESPN sports programming, when someone dreamed up "made for TV" sports competitions to fill the dead time in the winter months. One of the first of these was the "Superstars" competition, and, as I recall, a host of sports superstars of the time like Johnny Bench and Smokin' Joe Frazier were trounced by a somewhat little known (outside of track) pole vaulter named Bob Seagren. As I recall, Bob won the Superstars two years in a row and became more well known for the Superstars shows than he was for being a top pole vaulter.

I guess all of that took him farther into tv. Check out all of his apperances.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Pe ... onid-55627

[breaker]

How would it work? Would there be people who dont know how to pole vault learn and try to have a competition, or would there just be sweet polevaulters hanging out in a house for 3 months and having competitions?

i dont know, sweet pole vaulters hanging around in a house may be rather entertaining, we're quite an unconventional breed, that could be pretty crazy

[Peepers PV]

they should just send a crew out to earl's facility:

crazy pole vaulters + rural arkansas = one pretty flippin sweet reality tv show.

[Mecham]

they should just send a crew out to earl's facility:

crazy pole vaulters + rural arkansas = one pretty flippin sweet reality tv show.

you can say that again