10 Incredibly Important WWE Employees You've Never Seen On TV

9. Dick Ebersol - NBC Executive; Co-Creator Of Saturday Night's Main Event

Though technically never an employee of WWE, Dick Ebersol is credited with co-creating, along with Vince McMahon, the wildly successful Saturday Night's Main Event franchise that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992. In Vince McMahon's Don Quixote-like quest to bring wrestling into 1980s mainstream pop culture, Ebersol was instrumental in securing SNME as an occasional replacement for reruns of Saturday Night Live. In addition to being fantastic wrestling camp for a generation of superfans, Saturday Night's Main Event was professional wrestling's first national television exposure in nearly three decades. Without Ebersol's programming genius and foresight, Hulkamania would have run a little less wild, and wrestling's Second Golden Age may never have occurred. Two interesting side notes here: The March 14,1987 WrestleMania III go-home show, still holds the record for most viewers in the time slot, beating out every single episode of Saturday Night Live's nearly 40-year run. Also, Ebersol's semi-famous wife Susan Saint James, best known for her work on McMillan and Wife (Wife) and Kate & Allie (Kate), received a WrestleMania II paycheck as the baby face announcer seated alongside Vince McMahon in the New York portion of the PPV.