THE LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - THE CALIFORNIA WILDCATS

Just by the very fact that they act out fictional scenarios in Toobworld, members of the League of Themselves are not the same people they are in the Trueniverse.  But some of them as they appear in Earth Prime-Time could never exist here in the Real World.

For example:

• Emma Thompson was born and raised in Akron, Ohio.  ('Ellen')
• Vera Louise Gorman Novak was related to Art Carney. ('Alice')
• Larry Sanders slept with Roseanne Barr and Ellen DeGeneres.  ('The Larry Sanders Show')
• Jack Benny is an android ('The Jack Benny Program')
• Dennis Rodman is an extraterrestrial. ('Third Rock From The Sun')
• Tom Smothers died and was "reborn" as an angel. ('The Smothers Brothers Show')
• Jean Claude Van Damme was murdered.  ('Las Vegas')  (However, it is the Toobworld Central contention that the dead Van Damme was actually some form of replicant for he yet lives in Toobworld.)

In 1965, several professional football players appeared as themselves in "The Case Of The 12th Wildcat".  They may have been members of teams from Detroit and Cincinnatti and Chicago ("Oh my!), but in this episode they were not members of the teams for whom they played in the Real World.  Each of them was a member of the California Wildcats, a football team which connects 'Perry Mason' to 'Monk'.  

At the time of the episode, most of them were playing for the Los Angeles Rams in the real world.  The California Wildcats were located in San Francisco, and we saw the players on a train heading down to L.A. from their home base.

Here are the Wildcats to be found in the League Of Themselves:

Joe Scibelli

Joseph Albert Scibelli (April 19, 1939 in Springfield, Massachusetts – December 12, 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American football tackle and guard who played fifteen seasons in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams.

He helped the Rams win the 1967 and 1969 NFC Coastal Division and the 1973-75 NFC West.

During his tenure with the Rams they led the NFL in scoring in 1967 and 1973, total yards gained in 1973 and the NFC in yards rushing in 1973.

In 1965 he and several of his Ram teammates had cameo roles as football players in the 'Perry Mason' episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

He died in 1991 of cancer at the New England Baptist Hospital.

Bill Munson

William Alan Munson (August 11, 1941 - July 10, 2000) was a professional American football quarterback who played in 16 NFL seasons from 1964 through 1979 for five different teams. He was 6'2" and weighed 203 lbs. He was best known for his years as a starter for the Detroit Lions in the mid-1970s.

While with the Los Angeles Rams in 1965, he and several of his teammates played cameo roles as football players in the 'Perry Mason' episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

On July 10, 2000, Munson was found drowned in his swimming pool.
Don Chuy

Donald John Chuy (July 20, 1941 – January 6, 2014) was a professional American football player who played guard for seven seasons for the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles.

While playing for the Rams in 1965, he and several of his teammates played cameo roles as football players in the 'Perry Mason' episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

He died at his Myrtle Beach, South Carolina home in January 2014. He was 72.

Cliff Livingston

Clifford Lyman Livingston (July 2, 1930 – March 13, 2010) was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League for the New York Giants, the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams. He was born in Compton, California, and played college football at UCLA.

In 1965 while with the Rams, he and several of his teammates appeared in cameo roles in the 'Perry Mason' episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

He died at his home in the affluent neighborhood of Southern Highlands in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 13, 2010.
Marlin McKeever

Marlin Thomas McKeever (January 1, 1940 – October 27, 2006) was an American football defensive end, fullback and punter at the University of Southern California and a tight end and linebacker during his 13-year National Football League (NFL) career. He was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Marlin appeared with several of his Los Angeles Rams teammates as football players in the 1965 'Perry Mason' episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."  On August 18, 1966, Marlin was a passenger in Roman Gabriel's car and lost a finger when Gabriel crashed into a parked car.  On October 26, 2006, he fell at his home and slipped into a coma shortly thereafter. Doctors in the intensive care unit at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, California, reported a blood clot on his brain. He died from his injuries the next day. His interment was in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.

Roman Gabriel

Roman Ildonzo Gabriel, Jr. (born August 5, 1940) is a former American football player. The son of a Filipino immigrant, he was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the second overall pick in the 1962 NFL Draft and played for the Los Angeles Rams for eleven seasons, then five seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Gabriel had previously appeared as a headhunter in the November 14, 1966 "Topsy-Turvey" episode of CBS' 'Gilligan's Island'. Together with several of his Ram teammates, he made a cameo appearance as a football player in the 1965 'Perry Mason' episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat." And in 1970 in an 'Ironside' episode, "Blackout".

(All biographies are from Wikipedia.)

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