A Tribute Essay on the Late Rod Roddy

Will the Price ever be Right again?
By Daniel Noble
Gazette Staff
In my humble opinion, the success of The Price is Right is due in no small part to three magic ingredients: The Sleaze, The Cheese and The Goofball. And, on Oct. 28, the goofball died. In any other life, he might have been a crazy uncle, a used car dealer or even an MIT student, but in this wacky, mixed-up world we live in, he was a big, bright, shining star.
The Price is Right exists as its own mythical entity, separate from everything else in the universe; there is no passing of time and every day is 1972. …