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 USA Today May 7, 2009 article on Jimmy the Greek documentary The first installment of ESPN's 30 for 30 series of hour-long films airing this year, debuts May 16 with Spike Lee's Kobe Doin' Work. Other topics in the series are more historical. Another film will focus on Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, a gambler added to CBS' NFL studio show in 1976 and fired in 1988 for making racist comments about African-American athletes to a reporter who approached him in a Washington, D.C., restaurant. Director Fritz Mitchell, a researcher on the CBS show when Snyder was on it, says Snyder "went into hibernation, felt sorry for himself and died a broken man." But in his on-air heyday, says Mitchell, nobody had a problem with a professional gambler being the star of the top-rated NFL studio show: "The NFL would call him in the (TV) control room if they thought there was something fishy going on with players of teams."
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