For Pete's Sake

NFL Films had a cool tribute to late ‘Jeopardy!’ host, Alex Trebek

There was a bit of sad news on Sunday morning as longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek had died at the age of 80.

Trebek had been fighting pancreatic cancer for more than a year, as Eonline.com noted.

The “Jeopardy!” Twitter account shared the news:

It may seem that sports and game shows don’t mix, but NFL Films shared a video it had made about “Jeopardy!” after a particularly funny episode in which contestants couldn’t answer a single football question.

NFL Films also asked coaches to answer a Final Jeopardy question (they couldn’t) and Trebek talked about football players who had appeared on the show, including Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

This is really cool:

This story was originally published November 8, 2020 at 12:11 PM.

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The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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