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""In April 1994, former Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jim Everett appeared as a guest on ESPN2's "Talk2." Everett was not amused when the program's host, Jim Rome, introduced him as "Chris Everett" (after the female tennis player Chris Evert). "You've been calling me that for about the last five years," he complained. "Two years, actually, Chris," Rome replied. "You may have even been Jim Everett back there, but somewhere along the way, you ceased being Jim and became Chris." "If you call me Chris Everett to my face one more time," Everett warned him, "we better take a station break..."
When Rome remained defiant, Everett told him, "I think that you probably won't say it again." "I bet I do," Rome replied, pausing briefly before adding the word "Chris!" Everett's response? He flipped over the table between them, grabbed Rome, punched him in the head, and threw him to the floor""
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