# Whatever happened to sideline reporter Anne Simon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 28, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334 "2014-12-28T03:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334/1 "2014-12-28T03:49:46Z")
Best known for [this curt exchange](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp6N__pA8Jc) with Coach Bear Bryant in the 1982 Auburn/Alabama game. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334/2 "2014-12-28T05:50:14Z")
Some scant search results seems to indicate she was a sports reporter for Channel 7 in Buffalo, NY. But I can’t find what time period. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334/3 "2014-12-28T08:47:24Z")
This guy would probably know he hosts Channel 7 memories site. Several pics of here on the site as well. > **[Steve Cichon's staffannouncer.com: More EYEWITNESS NEWS!](http://www.staffannouncer.com/moreeyewitnessnews.html)** > > staffannouncer.com More EYEWITNESS NEWS! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334/4 "2014-12-28T19:32:28Z")
If she was 31 in 83 she’d be about 62 or 63 now. She’s off the google radar from about the late 80’s forward so whatever she’s doing she’s been out of the public eye for over 20 years now or possibly married and changed her professional name. [This 1988 news & broadcast industry article](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fraycomsports.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F10%2FEmmyJudgingSystem.pdf&ei=c1igVIcwya-CBIi-gkA&usg=AFQjCNGNGRHNiCivI4cTZFlaAHafYpJEMg) is the last mention of her I can find and cites her as having “been” employed by ABC (pdf doc link) March 14, 1983 - Vol. 19 - No. 10 - Lookout [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20084495,00.html](http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20084495,00.html) > [@](#): > > During halftime of the emotionally charged Alabama-Auburn football game last fall, TV fans were startled to hear Alabama’s coach, the late Bear Bryant, bark curtly at his interviewer, cutting off a question in mid-sentence. But Anne Simon, 31-year-old ABC sports commentator—and the only female network sportscaster to rise through the ranks—didn’t bat one lovely eyelash. “I said he obviously had a lot on his mind,” she recalls. “Perhaps his actions spoke louder than his words.” “Hey, way to handle the Coach,” an impressed Joe Namath told her. Simon has had the right blend of moxie and brains from the start. The daughter of schoolteachers in Lake View, N.Y., she moved from news to sports at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, graduated to writing and producing her own in-depth shows, covered the Lake Placid Olympics, and made the network last fall. “ABC Sports is it and I’m just starting—who knows where I can go?” she says happily. “If you were a news correspondent, you could get stuck at the White House.” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334/5 "2014-12-28T20:42:17Z")
[Facebook has this woman](https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1000546_10200973119626751_882996873_n.jpg?oh=8c012c3fc978195e1a50bffa04b6e4d7&oe=553AD6D8) Anne Simon Ellman in the New York area. The memories page [has this shot.](http://www.staffannouncer.com/wkbwtv/annesimonavertshereyesinthelockerroom.jpg) Are they the same person separated by 30 years? Difficult to say. Facial structure is quite similar. ---
**Author:** ![AarHandy3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aarhandy3/32/17525_2.png) [@AarHandy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AarHandy3)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-sideline-reporter-anne-simon/708334/6 "2024-08-31T20:43:47Z")
Did a tour of duty in New Orleans as WWL-TV’s first female Eyewitness Sportscaster for a year (October 1981–September 1982).