The man behind @Super70sSports landed a TV show with Jimmy Kimmel. Here’s how it happened
CHICAGO — Ricky Cobb has tweeted for nearly 3,000 consecutive days.
The man behind the hilarious Super 70s Sports Twitter account — which Cobb started in earnest on Jan. 1, 2015 — has posted at least 60,000 times since then. And that’s a conservative estimate considering he frequently tweets 30 or 40 times per day.
“I would be surprised if there were two or three days when I tweeted less than 15 times,” the Bolingbrook resident said. “There haven’t been any pinch-hitting appearances to keep the streak alive.”
His persistence has led to bigger things.
Cobb, 51, hooked up with Jimmy Kimmel for “Super Maximum Retro Show,” a new TV series based on the Super 70s account. The first of 10 weekly episodes aired Tuesday on Vice TV and is being distributed worldwide by Vice Distribution.
So how did Cobb — a native of Horse Cave, Kentucky, who moved to the Chicago area in 2003 and teaches sociology at a suburban community college — connect with one of the most successful late-night talk-show hosts in history to be a creative consultant and executive producer of a TV show?
Via Twitter, naturally.
