Sports or Consequences

Sports or Consequences
Genre Sports talk
Quiz show
Running time 30 minutes (60 minutes on Wednesdays)
Country United States
Language(s) English
Home station 700 WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Starring Gary Burbank

Sports or Consequences was a daily phone-in sports quiz show hosted by Gary Burbank and broadcast on WLW Radio in Cincinnati, having taken its name from Ralph Edwards' radio/TV show Truth or Consequences. The show ended its run when Burbank retired in December 2007.

The show consisted of listeners calling in to ask sports-related trivia questions in an attempt to stump the panel of "Sufficianados", as Burbank referred to them. If a caller succeed in stumping the panel they won a prize, but on far more frequent occasions, when Burbank or the Sufficianados got the question right (and after the caller admitted "you guys don't mess around"), they would shout their trademark victory chant: "WE don't, WE don't, WE don't mess around, HEY!".

The show ran weekday afternoons from 4:05 to 4:30pm except on Wednesdays, when the show ran until 5pm. On occasion, Burbank would spin a wheel to choose an alternate topic or two that can be asked in addition to the usual sports trivia. In later years, the show would allow "emergency questions", which could be essentially any topic, though what questions were allowed was still left to the discretion of Burbank and the Sufficianados. At the end of each show, Duke Sinatra, one of the co-hosts, would choose a question deemed intriguing or insightful. This question, whether the Sufficianados got the answer right or not, was selected 'Best Question of the Day' and was awarded a prize.

Rules

The rules were numerous and complex, and were often changed at the whim of the hosts. If any rule was violated, one of two things happened:

The rules included, but were definitely not limited to the following:

References

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