Considered a career as a professional drummer or basketball player before parking cars at Universal City and stumbling into "show-biz".
Played tight-end for the Triple As, an undefeated and unknown youth football team which existed in the late 1950s and claims to have never dropped a pass through-out his career.
Once challenged pro wrestler Freddie Blassie to a fight (over the phone). Blassie accepted and may have actually showed up at the appointed time and place. Lachman was upset over Blassies use of a well-known Lachmanism: Dont point unless youre picking out French pastry.
As a high school basketball player, his idol was Elgin Baylor, whose hang time Lachman tried to imitate by inventing the "hoota" shot. While un-spectacular in practices, it was never tried in an actual game.
