Good Sportsmanship (or the Lack of it) on 'Family Feud'

Did you ever notice on "Family Feud," when a family has two strikes against it and will lose control of the board with a third, incorrect response, that the cameraman (or camerawoman) always gives us a shot of the other family, grouped together and trying to come up with an alternative (and hopefully correct) reply if the other family gets strike three on the question?

Well, quite often, you will see that other family start to put put their fists and/or arms together as if to put the hex (or as the Italians say, the "Malocchi" or "evil eye") on the family with strike three against them. And this is AFTER the members of each family have shaken hands with one another when they both try "ring-in" first with the best response to host Steve Harvey's question to the two of them standing up there at the podium.

In fact, sometimes you see that other family giving their opponents the "thumbs down" gesture. And, I can recall one fat guy in a particularly grotesque suit, who drew his hand across his throat as if to wish that his opponents "slit their throats," so to speak, on their answer to host Steve Harvey.

Wow, talk about bad sportsmanship!!! Can you imagine a contestant doing that to another contestant on a game show as respected and intellectually-challenging as "Jeopardy"? Heck, the show's oh-so-solemn and oh-so-unctuous-host, Alex Trebek, would have an apoplectic fit if someone pulled that kind of tacky stunt on "Jeopardy"!

And, if I may also comment, they sometimes have men, who are actual medical doctors on the show as contestants. And, yet, they STILL wear those truly ugly-A@sed dress shirts of such bright and garish colors as green, purple, crimson red and black. Now, I expect personal fitness trainers and used car salesmen to have particularly bad taste in clothes, but not qualified medical doctors. (There must have been a big sale on those dreadful dress shirts and ties at K-Mart's or Marshall's in the greater Atlanta area.)