However, earlier that day, Steve saved the life of a child plummeting off a balcony a few stories above him. The impact of this was reinjuring his bum knees, leaving him unconscious on the street below. However, scientist Frederic Fowe witnessed this, and brought Lombard back to his laboratory. Using his ultra-violet healing ray, which itself was an un-intentional copy of the Purple Healing Ray created by the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two decades earlier, Fowe was able to revitalize Lombard's knees.
However, a side effect of this procedure was the creation of a phantom quarterback clone of Lombard, composed of radiation from the sun via a solar flare. This creature caused random acts of destruction, however it also fulfilled Steve's conscious desire to win the Super Bowl. Substituting for "Slinger" Lombard, the energy duplicate helped lead the Meteors to a final win for their NFL Football season.
Soon after, Superman was able to track down the phantom quarterback, sending it back to the sun where it dissipated into energy once more. Lombard, feeling ashamed for taking credit for his team's win for which he wasn't involved, retired from football. WGBS-TV owner Morgan Edge hired Lombard to become his station's nightly news sportscaster... and frequent tormentor of co-worker Clark Kent.
On Earth-Two, Steve Bard evidently didn't have a professional football career himself, having worked for well over a decade as a sports journalist at the Metropolis Daily Star. While he also tormented his world's Clark Kent and irked Clark's alter ego of Superman, Bard was more interested in taunting fellow reporter Lois Lane. Unlike Lombard, who sought to date Lois, Bard sought to outshine Lois as a journalist. Neither met much success.
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