Video links:
- Jimmy Johnson's official CBS bio page for Survivor: Nicaragua
- Jimmy's pre-game chats (interview1, interview2) with EW's Dalton Ross
- Jimmy's pre-game interview with fancast's Gordon Holmes
- Jimmy's official CBS pre-game interview on YouTube
- Various Jimmy Johnson videos on YouTube
- If you don't already know who Jimmy Johnson is, that's a major casting fail by CBS/SEG. Still, there's always his Wikipedia page as a place to start.
Here's a gallery of various Jimmy Johnson pics from the press coverage of the Survivor: Nicaragua cast reveal, as well as the pre-Ep1 ads that CBS has aired:
After being scooped by SurvivorSucks, CBS today issued a press release confirming that Survivor: Nicaragua will indeed feature an "old vs. young" tribe breakdown (at least initially). In addition, @CBSTweet sent out this (mostly concealed) pre-game picture of the entire cast (for those scoring at home, taken 6/12, or two days before filming began; click the picture to enlarge):
Three Survivor: Nicaragua contestants were already known (Holly Hoffman, originally spoiled by Sabina Sperber at Sucks, online casting call winner 'Jimmy T' Tarantino, and former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson, spoiled by jackbauer1982 and later confirmed by missyae at Sucks, then by the mainstream sports press). But over a roughly 24-hour period (Saturday 7/24-Sunday 7/25), posters at SurvivorSucks identified (and missyae confirmed) all but one of the remaining 17 contestants: original spoiler thread here, contestant-specific threads are in the S21+ forum (until they're moved in a few weeks). The last, Jane Bright of the Espada tribe, was positively indentified today. See our Survivometer21 page for a summary.
Also, as had previously been speculated by smokeitgood, missyae confirmed that the "twist" for the season is that the tribes are initially divided by age: The La Flor (yellow) tribe is composed of contestants of age 30 or under, while all members of the Espada (blue) tribe are over 40.
In the Dallas Morning News, sportswriters Mark Francescutti (who had previously revealed Gary Hogeboom as a contestant on Survivor: Guatemala) and Barry Horn confirmed stories previously seen at SurvivorSucks (one thread by jackbauer1982, the other by missyae): former NFL coach and current FOX-TV football analyst (and ExtenZe spokesman) Jimmy Johnson is a contestant on Survivor: Nicaragua. With some additional supporting details:
"The former Dallas Cowboys coach will be a contestant on the CBS reality show Survivor: Nicaragua this fall, a source close to Johnson told the Dallas Morning News....
The filming schedule will leave Johnson plenty of room to return in time for the NFL season. Johnson is an analyst for the Fox NFL Sunday studio show.
Johnson, 67, will be one of the oldest contestants to ever appear on Survivor, one of his favorite television shows. The Miami Herald reported last year that he was almost a contestant on Survivor: Gabon (which aired in 2008), but he failed a physical. He has lost weight since."
