Tom Shales Ball Quotations

Viewers ... may well have been hoping the famous giant ball was the only thing that would drop before the night was over.

'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.