The Surprising Way Pamela Anderson Was Discovered

Canadian football may only have three downs, use twelve players per side, and goal posts that are at the front of the end zone instead of behind it (per How They Play), but other than that, it's pretty much the same as American football. These similarities extend off the field to include the in-game entertainment offerings, one of those being the Jumbotron, the massive screen that typically hangs somewhere in the stadium.

According to IMDb, a camera scanning the stands at British Columbia Lions home game, when stopped on a woman, who just so happened to be a then-unknown Pamela Anderson. Her looks garnered cheers from the crowd, so much so that she was brought down onto the field.

But it was the shirt she was wearing that set her career in motion — a tight-fitting Labatt beer T-shirt. Per Biography, after the Labatt company learned what had happened at the B.C. Lions game, they hired Anderson to appear in a commercial. That random experience launched her modeling career, which would ultimately lead to her 1989 appearance in Playboy and the beginning of her mainstream career.

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