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Saturday, December 15, 2001 - 11:43 am Click here to edit this post
Frisbee, Swain Presented $1 Million Race Check

They will not be taking this one to the bank. However, the mock $1 million check signed by Amazing Race co-executive producer Bertram Van Munster looked awfully good to L.A. attorneys Rob Frisbee and Brennan Swain Friday morning.

Race host Phil Keoghan presented the check to the winners of the first Amazing Race on CBS's The Early Show.

Runners-up Frank and Margarita Mesa and third place finishers Joe Baldassare and Bill Bartek reviewed their race strategy with co-host Jane Clayson and the three teams were surprised on set by The Chromedomes Kevin O'Connor and Drew Feinberg, two of the jolliest contestants on any game this season.

"We may have won $1 million but we won a lot more with what we had a chance to see and the friendships we made with all the other teams," said Frisbee.

A heartwarming note is the reconciliation of the Mesas, who had separated prior to the start of taping the game but rekindled their marriage. They appeared with their two-year-old daughter. Margarita admitted Frank's sometimes stern manner "brought more out of me in the game than I thought I could do."

Frisbee's and Swain's $500,000 each ties them for 25th on the all-time network cash winnings list with 19 other game show half-millionaires. One has to ponder if Rosie O'Donnell will have on the Mesas and give them a second honeymoon as a consolation prize, similar to the trips to the Super Bowl she's given The Chromedomes.

CBS has still not scheduled Amazing Race 2, though most insiders believe the sequel will air next summer as a flagship fresh offering for the network. Race pulled its highest numbers yet in the special Thursday slot, with an 8.4/13 (second in the time period)---a full point higher than Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (a third place 7.3/11). Survivor 3 turned in another second place 10.6/17 from 8-9.