According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

It was also announced that Chicago White Sox minority owner Eddie Einhorn would be granted a new USFL franchise for Chicago.

After the 1984 season was over USFL owners, largely under the influence of New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump and Chicago franchise owner Eddie Einhorn began talking seriously about moving to a fall schedule in 1986.

These feuds took place mostly in Mexico and the US, and were broadcast on Spanish language stations in the U. S. Mascaras was also the heavyweight champion of the IWA wrestling promotion, which was founded by Eddie Einhorn, and still holds the title to this day.

Eddie Einhorn had begun broadcasting radio coverage of college basketball, and built a network of radio stations that covered the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament games.

Eddie Einhorn paid $ 27, 000 for the broadcast rights on TVS.

By 1980, Eddie Einhorn had sold his interest in the network and became the head of CBS Sports, and later became an owner of the Chicago White Sox with Jerry Reinsdorf ; he would also spend time as owner of the USFL's Chicago Blitz.

When Eddie Einhorn, head of the WFL's television partner, TVS Television Network, got word that the upstart league was going after Namath, he bluntly told league president Chris Hemmeter that the WFL was literally betting its existence on getting Namath.

This promotion should not be confused with another IWA, which was started up by Eddie Einhorn and operated in the mid 1970s.

In 1981, the White Sox were sold to an ownership group headed by Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn, and the new owners were eager to bring in a new mascot, seeking to improve what they perceived to be a more downscale feature of White Sox home games.

Fred Eychaner's Metrowest Corporation ( later to become Newsweb Corporation ), which was the original applicant for the channel 60 license in 1978, launched WPWR-TV with a large percentage of its broadcast schedule dedicated to a new pay television service called Sportsvision, which Eychaner had developed in a deal with Chicago White Sox co-owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn.

The team initially signed a television deal with the newly founded Sportsvision under the new leadership of Chairman Reinsdorf and Vice Chairman Eddie Einhorn, but that arrangement quickly fizzled.

* Eddie Einhorn, a part owner of the Chicago White Sox baseball team

Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Eddie Blazonczyk was born in Chicago, Illinois to Polish immigrant parents.

* Primo Colón ( born 1982 ), ring name of professional wrestler Eddie Colón, multiple tag team champion in the WWE

Edward Regan " Eddie " Murphy ( born April 3, 1961 ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.

Rogers ' entertainment career was born one night when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in.

His father, Eddie Zinn, born in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the U. S. with his brother Samuel before the outbreak of World War I. Howard's mother Jenny Zinn emigrated from the Eastern Siberian city of Irkutsk.

Eddie Campbell ( born 10 August 1955 ) is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia.

* Eddie Rush ( born 1961 ), National Basketball Association referee

* Eddie King, was born on April 21, 1938, in Talladega, and played as a sideman to many other blues musicians including Sonny Boy Williamson II and Koko Taylor.

* Eddie Willis, member of Funk Brothers, born in Grenada.

* Eddie Murphy ( born 1961 ), comedian, actor who has appeared in the Beverly Hills Cop series and as the voice of Donkey in the Shrek series.

* Eddie Gaven ( born 1986 ), soccer player who plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer.

* Johnny O ' Brien and Eddie O ' Brien ( the O ' Brien twins, born 1930 ), played together for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

* Eddie Trunk ( born 1964 ), heavy metal radio host.

* Eddie Brigati ( born 1945 ), singer / songwriter, founding member of The Rascals.

* Eddie Howe, Burnley FC manager, born in Amersham

* Eddie Hall, Multiple British and European karting champion was born and raised in Witham.

* Eddie Brigati ( born Edward Brigati Jr., October 22, 1946, Garfield, New Jersey ) – vocals, percussion

Eddie Vedder ( born Edward Louis Severson III ; December 23, 1964 ) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam.

Edward Joseph " Eddie " McGuire AM ( born 29 October 1964 ) is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network.

The O ' Jays are an American R & B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert ( born June 16, 1942 ), Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1943 ), William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ), Bobby Massey and Bill Isles.

* 1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer ( d. 1958 )

Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

Eddie Acuff took over the Spudsy role in the 1936 film The Case of the Velvet Claws.

* The Mandarin Mystery ( 1936 ) Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, Wade Boteler as Inspector Queen ( loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery ); Available for download as being in the public domain

Sportsmen born in the town have included Surrey and Middlesex cricketer Ted Pooley ( 1842 – 1907 ); Eddie Parris ( 1911 – 1971 ), the first black player to play international football for Wales ; Olympic gold medal winning show jumper Richard Meade ( born 1936 ); and two more Wales international footballers, Ollie Burton ( born 1941 ) and Paul Parry ( born 1980 ).

Eddie Koiki Mabo ( c. 29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992 ) was an Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia which overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius (" land belonging to nothing, no one ") which characterised Australian law with regards to land and title.

Durbin started a collaboration with Eddie Cantor's radio show in 1936.

* Eddie Fisher ( baseball ) ( Eddie Gene Fisher ; born 1936 ), American baseball player

The Boston Bruins were involved in a contract dispute with Eddie Shore so they signed Mantha at the start of the 1936 – 37 NHL season -- and gave him Shore's number 2 jersey.

* Eddie Root 1936 ( while playing )

Edward " Eddie " Colman ( 1 November 1936 – 6 February 1958 ) was an English football player and one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster.

Eddie Carmel ( March 16, 1936 – August 14, 1972 ) was an entertainer with gigantism and subsequent acromegaly resulting from a pituitary adenoma.

Eddie Sutton ( born March 12, 1936 ) is an American former college head coach with 36 years of Division I basketball coaching experience at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State ( his alma mater ), and the University of San Francisco.

Eddie Albert and Grace Brandt apply makeup for the first television broadcast of a play, November 1936.

Eddie Miró ( born 1936 in San Juan, Puerto Rico ), is a television show host in Puerto Rico of Sephardic origin.

Eddie Palmieri ( born December 15, 1936 ), is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.

Meanwhile he was playing pro basketball with Eddie Gottlieb's all-Jewish Philadelphia Sphas, from 1930 to 1936.

Clyde Howard Bellecourt ( born May 8, 1936 ) is a White Earth Ojibwe civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement ( AIM ) in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Herb Powless, and Eddie Benton Banai, among others.

Unveiled at a 1936 dinner hosted by then-Speedway owner Eddie Rickenbacker, the trophy was officially declared the annual prize for Indianapolis 500 victors.

* Eddie Palmieri ( born 1936 ), Puerto Rican-American pianist, bandleader, brother of Charlie Palmieri

* Eddie Colman ( 1936 – 1958 ), British footballer

Frick and Frack found fame with the Follies, a revue promoted by Eddie Shipstad and his brother Roy, which began in 1936 and ran for almost 50 years.