SO YOU WANT TO BE IN SHOW BUISNESS
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10:14 PST, Sunday, 12-21- There is a lot about my job that makes me think it is one of the best in the entire broadcasting industry. A Fabulous broadcast partner, terrific technical support people, management people who give a damn about their help, outstanding coaches to work with, athletes who are phenominal to deal with, sports information people who do everything in their power to help us do our jobs, administrators who have never in 17 years said word one about how we do our jobs.
That just scratches the surface why I love my job.......Then there is the travel.That is the complete other side of the totem pole. And all I have to do is explain our attempts (and that is the operative word in this missive, attempts) and you will understand why travel isn't the best part of the process.
Wayne and I were originally on a 6 AM Flight to Dallas and then a flight to Hartford that would have arrived Sunday afternoon at 5 pm. Plenty of time to go to NBC 30 to tape a Husky Insider segment with my guy Mike Ratte (oh, is that how you spell his name), and them get home to watch the Super Bowl Champion New York Football Giants rally to beat Carolina and sew up the top seed in the NFC playoffs.
But Seattle is in the grips of a hideous winter storm, starting in the middle of the week and apparantly not ending anytime soon. At 3 AM on Sunday, Mr Norman called to tell me our flight had been cancelled. Not delayed, cancelled...The word you never, ever want to hear while travelling. So about 3:50 AM, I called the WTIC newsroom and asked Newsman Extraordinare Bill Pearse to have our Program Director Jenneen Lee to call me when she checked in.
That call came about 4:25 or so. I told her what was going on and she went about the buisness of contacting our travel agency to get us a flight out. After about 2 hours, we were booked on an Alaskan Air flight Monday morning, that would deposit Wayne and me in Washington and then we would take different routes to get back to Hartford. It meant an extra day in Seattle. Under normal circumstances, that's okay. In a winter storm, not so much fun,
Well after returning from dinner and settling down for the 2nd half of the Giants game, Wayne called with the bad news that the new batch of snow we had gotten in the afternoon forced the cancellation of our Monday morning flight.
So after about an hour of discussions, we landed on a Tuesday morning flight to Dulles from which point Wayne and I will DRIVE back to Bradley International.
Now maybe you understand why the travel part of play by play broadcasting isn't the best part of the job.
Since I won't get a chance to talk about these subjects on SportsTalk (now pinch hitting, #30,Kevin Nathan, #30).
here are some football thoughts from Sunday.
1)- The Giants game was one of the best of the regular seaon, not just because they won but because how both teams played.
2)- I will have to logon to WFAN to hear the way the hosts like Benigno, Roberts and Francesa skewer Eric Mangini. He had as bad a game as a coach could have and the Jets freefal continues (gee, Jets, Mets, are we detecting a pattern here).
3)- Very funny, the fans at Gillette Stadium firing snowballs towards the field when their beloved Pats scored in the snow against pathetic Arizona.
Once again, enjoy the holidays.
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