Did you ever have one of those moments where you spot a person and can’t help but notice they look like somebody you know? Then, did you even take that moment a step further, saying something to that person, only to discover they aren’t who you thought?

It probably won’t shock you to see since we’ve done 130-some-odd installments of Doppelgangers, that very moment has happened here more than once. The latest example was just last night, when a blow-out baseball game prompted a surf session through the stream-iverse. This is is a vast and dangerous place; you literally never know what you may find.

One such electronic crevasse is filled exclusively with old game shows. I just so happened to stumble upon an episode of To Tell The Truth from the early 1970s. If you aren’t familiar, this show featured three people all claiming the same identity. It was up to a panel of four celebrities through a series of questions to separate the two impostors from the “real deal.”

So, in this case, the three were all supposed to be a country music producer. But from the second the three walked on stage, my eyes went right to #3. I kept saying to myself “that can’t be who I think it is.”

Sure enough, when the time came, #3 came clean. “Hi, my name is Buddy Ryan and I’m an assistant coach with the New York Jets.” We know that Ryan served on the Jets’ coaching staff from 1968-1976, and we know he was one the the more beloved head coaches in Philadelphia Eagles’ history (even if he never won a play-off game).

But what we didn’t know is that Ryan had the sideburns resembling an actual country music producer.

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