Green Bay Packers player Ray Nitschke, the second contestant, had just won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award of the 1962 NFL Championship Game, accepting the prize of a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette.
Mystery guest Vaughn Meader had recently released his comedy album 'The First Family' in November 1962. The record was a good-natured parody of then-President John F. Kennedy, and it sold at more than 1 million copies per week for the first six and one-half weeks in distribution and remained at #1 on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks.