What each NBA coach would be doing if he wasn’t an NBA coach
By John Buhler
Steve Clifford: Professional metal detector/Host of Falling Of the Cliff w/Steve Clifford on The Travel Channel
Nobody took the loss of Harambe harder than Steve Clifford. After moping around his house for two full days in late May 2016, his wife had enough of his mourning and told him to go find a hobby. Clifford ventured out into the frozen tundra that is Maine in early June with his trusty metal detector to look for gold and maybe some answers.
While he didn’t find gold, he found something better in the form of his own Travel Channel show, Falling Off the Cliff w/Steve Clifford. It was a snowy June morning on a beach somewhere in Maine. Something got wedged between his slides and his knee-high orthopedic socks.
Clifford fell down a fjord to land in a sandy snow slush mess. While he may or may not have sustained injuries, thankfully his metal detector was still intact. At the bottom of the cliff, Clifford would literally run into talent executive for the Travel Channel Erik Spoelstra. Spoelstra was looking for on-air talent to fill the coveted Tuesday night block. He had been set on the idea that Swamp Dragons was going to be the biggest show on television since M.A.S.H.
After they grieved for Harambe for approximately 17 minutes, Clifford and Spoelstra started talking big picture. They hashed out a television contract for Clifford to join Spoelstra as an executive producer for the upcoming series Swamp Dragons. Clifford has always been a believer in conspiracies, telling Spoelstra, “You had me at Swamp Dragons.”
Since that television saga has yet to be green lit, the dynamic duo for The Travel Channel magically created the best show on the network today. Falling Off the Cliff is basically Clifford going to random places across the globe and searching for buried treasure. He has developed a healthy, but very real rivalry with Andrew Zimmern, as Zimmern believes that Clifford is just ripping him off, but using a metal detector.
Clifford found Bigfoot seven times with his metal detector in season one. Apparently, that was the apparatus people needed to use to find Bigfoot. Since the passing of Harambe, Clifford has become an overnight sensation. In a world of cord cutting, politics, sports and Falling Off the Cliff w/Steve Clifford are the platforms that carry cable television. Spoelstra, and Clifford, now have the capital to create Swamp Dragons.