Followill's Fib: Mavs Announcer Looooves 'Grease'

    Turns out, Mavs TV play-by-play voice Mark Followill has been lying to you and to me about his assertion that “I’ve never seen the movie ‘Grease.’’

     He issued the outrageous claim during the Mavs-at-Hornets game on Wednesday, and then dared repeat the fib to my face on Thursday night.

     It didn’t ring true. … as I’ve noted, Followill is 38, is a pop-culture person, owns a TV and certainly appreciates The Arts.

     And now DallasBasketball.com has uncovered the truth.

    Not only has Mark Followill seen the iconic musical about the “summer nights’’ involving John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, it turns out he was actually in the film!

     Click in for a long lost artifact of when Mark Followill was Hopelessly Devoted To a movie he now pretends to have never seen.

   See? So Bob Ortegel, with his much-ballyhooed role in "Glory Road,'' has nothing on his broadcast partner.

   "Lookin' good, there, Zuko. Looking good.

   We're going to keep digging here ... Pretty soon, I'll probably find out that Chuck Cooperstein starred in "The Notebook.''