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Speaker 1 (00:04):
A lot of times when they do these holiday tournaments, they.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Just look for a place to show up and broadcast
again or to play a game, and they don't necessarily
think about, oh, well, what are we going to do
for TV and streaming and radio and media and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we were in downtown Jacksonville the last couple of nights,
and the games were played at a college called Eastern
called Edward Waters University. And I believe they're like a
Division two maybe too, a really low type league, and
they play basketball and they even have a football stadium,
so assuming they played some semblance of football there too.
(00:42):
But the gym was about fifteen rows high on both sides.
And the biggest challenge for me was the scoreboard was
behind me. So you know, I'm used to looking at
the scoreboard in front of me in one corner of
the stadium or not. That's one of the first things
you look at is where's the stadium, where's the possession arrow?
(01:02):
You know, for football, where's the game clock? Are the
play clock?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So you have to turn your head.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So I had to turn my head to the right
and look up, which means I have to take my
eye off the court, and as fast as the game
is played, sometimes you don't get there. But as Mark
was explaining to you all last night Adventures in broadcasting,
you know, it's not the cushy, nice Alamodome radio booth
that we get for home games. Sometimes you have to
(01:28):
go to places that are less than spectacular.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Andy, one time I called a game from a deer blind.
I'm not even kidding. They moved a deer blind into
the stadium and that was the opposing team's broadcast booth.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, I shared a press box with the PA announcer
and the clock operator in What Lita, Oklahoma Wants, and
we had to pretty much stand up and there was
enough room for the equipment, but there was no place
for us to sit, so you had to stand up
the whole game. There was no place to put any
(01:59):
infant about the teams. You just had to kind of wing.
It was a football game. Or football game, yeah, okay.
The University of Texas at Arlington for years used to
play basketball in a in a theater. They didn't have
a court, so you played on the stage and the
stage had about ten roads behind you, and then the
(02:20):
rest of the people were kind of a out like
in the front row of the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Of the orchestra, So the orchestra.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Pit they covered so that people wouldn't tumble into that,
but you could fall off the front of the of
the stage if you went for too far of a
loose ball.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I would say that to be fair. Though, there are times,
and you know this, there are times that the press
box is actually pretty well set. One of my favorites
was actually when I got to go cover a playoff
game at Hero Stadium.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That press box is actually pretty nice.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
And luck enough, they had Chick fil A at Chick
fil A for everyone in the booth, so I got
I got free lunch out of that. But it sucks
because and you doing at the college level. I've only
ever done it at the high school level. So I've
gotten to call games from multiple stadiums. Like I called
a game one time at Texas Lutheran Stadium. I've called
a game before at the Mary Hut and Baylor's. Have
you ever seen Maryhart and Baylor Stadium? Yes, it's really
(03:12):
it's it's like a smaller.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Version the football stadium, the basketball arena I've been to
years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Okay, so okay, let me give you a idea.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
So you remember Baylor's original stadium, not the new one,
but the one before. Yes, it's basically a smaller version
of that, exactly. Yeah, but it's really really nice. It's
really updated, especially for a D three. So there have
been some nice ones. I even got to call a
game at at a private school and it it didn't
look like much to get to the press box and
(03:39):
the press box and the outside kind of looks like,
you know what you'd have, like a double wide, but
the inside was really clean. They had a bathroom, which
I've never seen a bathroom in a press box before.
That was nice and uh and and they had drinks
and they had drink service.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So the there was a year that I was in
college they let o use student radio station broadcast games
all the road. If there was space, usually outside on
the photo deck they put a table up, which it
was good sidelines. It was just you had to deal
with the weather, right, And one of those was the
ou OSU game in nine to eighty five where it
(04:12):
was twenty eight below winds show factor and all that
kind of stuff. But the first time I ever met
the legendary Keith Jackson was the following year at Kansas
and OU was the number one team in the country
because although Miami had beaten them in the regular season,
neither team had lost since and this was early November,
(04:34):
so they were like, well, let's just put the number
one team on the country. Actually Miami had lost the
week before to drop out a number one, so they
decided to put OU in Kansas on. So the old
press box at Kansas, the writer's level had a men's restroom,
the second level was where the radio the regular radio
boosts were, and that had a women's restroom. And the
(04:57):
third level was where the photo de was, where the
cameras operate, and they had a makeshift TV booth, and
they also put us in that spot because that's where
overflow media or secondary radio went And Keith Jackson was
probably twenty feet from US broadcasting. So well before the game,
Keith Jackson is ambling around up in the press box
(05:18):
looking for a restroom. And I said, Keith's down on
the first floor. And do you think of Keith Jackson?
Is this pleasant?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Nice? And he was, He's the nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But he does have a tongue or did he does
know how to make use of the language?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Absolutely, And he was not very happy that he was
going to have to walk down two flights of stairs
every time you need to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So I told this story to Ron Thulan once.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Ron Thulan now does games for the Las Vegas are
the Dallas Wings and a lot of college sports as well,
and he said, that's the story, and I went, what
So about ten years ago fifteen years ago, Nebraska did
its press box and inside the television booth they put
in a small bathroom and named it the Keith Jackson
(06:08):
Bathroom inside the press box, and Keith Jackson's name, from
what I'm told, is still on the bathroom door.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And that is because Keith complained that everywhere he went
the bathroom was too far away.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The worst experience I ever had can a game, and
the one I told you about what I had to
bring a foldout table doesn't even come close. So I
called games pretty much from August through May because it's
high school, so I would call sports like football, basketball, baseball, ball,
I did volleyball, whatever. So I get called out to
do a baseball game kind of like three days prior,
and it's a team that I never covered, so I
(06:42):
to do my research kind of last minute and that's
the worst, right. So it's a baseball game after drive
out past Lockhart and you know where Lockhart is, like
Onllloyd Austin. So it's a baseball game past Lockhart and
a couple of things. One, no press box, I do,
set my equipment.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Up in the bleachers.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Done that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I had to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
My color guy didn't show up, So I'm talking about
myself in baseball. And like baseball, dead air is the
worst dead air because like you have to wait for
the ball to be thrown hope.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They well, baseball requires a lot more prep than the
other two sports because you've got so much more to
fill during the dead times.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And and to make the marriage worse, andy it rained,
so I had to use my I did. I had
to cover my equipment with like trash bags during the delay,
and and I had and and my my and I
had to like cover like I had to like wrap
my cords up in duct tape in order to make
sure they don't short circuit all that stuff. And I
thought they're gonna call the game. Nope, about an hour
rain delay and I go back to my silk and
(07:37):
wet seat.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
This is a bleach.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
This is metal bleachers, by the way, So id to
sit down in that bad boy because people God for people,
people behind me, Well, let me stand up. Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That was my worst broadcasting experience.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The years ago, I had a baseball game for Burnie
High School up in Curville, and there were times where
the press the baseball press box at Curveville. And this
is during the Johnny Manzel days at Curveville too, so
they were good. But somedays sometimes I think we did
three different years there, and two of the three years
they let me in the in the press box even
(08:08):
though it wasn't very big because they weren't storing stuff there.
But one year they had basically half the press box
with a bunch of boxes and they were heavy boxes
and there was no place to move them. So they said,
Andy Sarry, you're gonna have to do the game from outside.
First pitch seven oh three, Sonny, eighty four degrees. Nice game,
(08:28):
last until about nine thirty. It's the hill Country, it's
the spring. I signed off. It was forty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah that nighttime chill, I gotcha.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, I could. I could go on and on for hours.
I could probably write a book and maybe someday I
will on places I've been.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Where we go. But it is a fun career.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You have stories for a lifetime and all of those experiences.
You appreciate what you have when you get to it.
I guess the worst in college I've ever experienced was
at Florida International. I was going to say at Florida International,
they have a soccer stadium, and they were supposed to
make some of the suites on and it's an east
(09:08):
west soccer stadium. They were supposed to make some of
the suites available for broadcasts. Yeah, they decided to sell
them all, so that didn't happen. And then they decided
to put a couple of like vendor tents that you
see at the rodeo, like the ten by ten white tents. Yeah,
they decided to put that on top of the press box. However,
it rains every day in South Florida, and it was
(09:31):
a flat press box, so the water puddles, and the
Florida Atlantic announcer was signing off the air and reached
down to unplug and got the shock of his life
and he almost owned a part of Florida International University
until they decided, okay, we're not going to do that,
We'll find someplace safer for you to go.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So they took a.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Storage container, tipped it up on its side, and welded
indoors to it, and then a door in the back
of it. The windows open inward, so you can't open
them because you can never close them if you do,
should it rain, which it always does so and then
to make matters worse, the storage container is probably twenty
(10:15):
feet long, and they have a shower curtain going down
the middle of it to block the sound from their
radio crew.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So not a good sight.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Anyway, we'll tell more stories about that, maybe someday down
the road. Justin Tucker thought he had a job he doesn't.
Memo to fans, don't be Justin Tucker will explain next
on the ticket
A lot of times when they do these holiday tournaments, they.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Just look for a place to show up and broadcast
again or to play a game, and they don't necessarily
think about, oh, well, what are we going to do
for TV and streaming and radio and media and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we were in downtown Jacksonville the last couple of nights,
and the games were played at a college called Eastern
called Edward Waters University. And I believe they're like a
Division two maybe too, a really low type league, and
they play basketball and they even have a football stadium,
so assuming they played some semblance of football there too.
(00:42):
But the gym was about fifteen rows high on both sides.
And the biggest challenge for me was the scoreboard was
behind me. So you know, I'm used to looking at
the scoreboard in front of me in one corner of
the stadium or not. That's one of the first things
you look at is where's the stadium, where's the possession arrow?
(01:02):
You know, for football, where's the game clock? Are the
play clock?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So you have to turn your head.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So I had to turn my head to the right
and look up, which means I have to take my
eye off the court, and as fast as the game
is played, sometimes you don't get there. But as Mark
was explaining to you all last night Adventures in broadcasting,
you know, it's not the cushy, nice Alamodome radio booth
that we get for home games. Sometimes you have to
(01:28):
go to places that are less than spectacular.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Andy, one time I called a game from a deer blind.
I'm not even kidding. They moved a deer blind into
the stadium and that was the opposing team's broadcast booth.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, I shared a press box with the PA announcer
and the clock operator in What Lita, Oklahoma Wants, and
we had to pretty much stand up and there was
enough room for the equipment, but there was no place
for us to sit, so you had to stand up
the whole game. There was no place to put any
(01:59):
infant about the teams. You just had to kind of wing.
It was a football game. Or football game, yeah, okay.
The University of Texas at Arlington for years used to
play basketball in a in a theater. They didn't have
a court, so you played on the stage and the
stage had about ten roads behind you, and then the
(02:20):
rest of the people were kind of a out like
in the front row of the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Of the orchestra, So the orchestra.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Pit they covered so that people wouldn't tumble into that,
but you could fall off the front of the of
the stage if you went for too far of a
loose ball.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I would say that to be fair. Though, there are times,
and you know this, there are times that the press
box is actually pretty well set. One of my favorites
was actually when I got to go cover a playoff
game at Hero Stadium.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That press box is actually pretty nice.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
And luck enough, they had Chick fil A at Chick
fil A for everyone in the booth, so I got
I got free lunch out of that. But it sucks
because and you doing at the college level. I've only
ever done it at the high school level. So I've
gotten to call games from multiple stadiums. Like I called
a game one time at Texas Lutheran Stadium. I've called
a game before at the Mary Hut and Baylor's. Have
you ever seen Maryhart and Baylor Stadium? Yes, it's really
(03:12):
it's it's like a smaller.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Version the football stadium, the basketball arena I've been to
years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Okay, so okay, let me give you a idea.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
So you remember Baylor's original stadium, not the new one,
but the one before. Yes, it's basically a smaller version
of that, exactly. Yeah, but it's really really nice. It's
really updated, especially for a D three. So there have
been some nice ones. I even got to call a
game at at a private school and it it didn't
look like much to get to the press box and
(03:39):
the press box and the outside kind of looks like,
you know what you'd have, like a double wide, but
the inside was really clean. They had a bathroom, which
I've never seen a bathroom in a press box before.
That was nice and uh and and they had drinks
and they had drink service.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So the there was a year that I was in
college they let o use student radio station broadcast games
all the road. If there was space, usually outside on
the photo deck they put a table up, which it
was good sidelines. It was just you had to deal
with the weather, right, And one of those was the
ou OSU game in nine to eighty five where it
(04:12):
was twenty eight below winds show factor and all that
kind of stuff. But the first time I ever met
the legendary Keith Jackson was the following year at Kansas
and OU was the number one team in the country
because although Miami had beaten them in the regular season,
neither team had lost since and this was early November,
(04:34):
so they were like, well, let's just put the number
one team on the country. Actually Miami had lost the
week before to drop out a number one, so they
decided to put OU in Kansas on. So the old
press box at Kansas, the writer's level had a men's restroom,
the second level was where the radio the regular radio
boosts were, and that had a women's restroom. And the
(04:57):
third level was where the photo de was, where the
cameras operate, and they had a makeshift TV booth, and
they also put us in that spot because that's where
overflow media or secondary radio went And Keith Jackson was
probably twenty feet from US broadcasting. So well before the game,
Keith Jackson is ambling around up in the press box
(05:18):
looking for a restroom. And I said, Keith's down on
the first floor. And do you think of Keith Jackson?
Is this pleasant?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Nice? And he was, He's the nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But he does have a tongue or did he does
know how to make use of the language?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Absolutely, And he was not very happy that he was
going to have to walk down two flights of stairs
every time you need to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So I told this story to Ron Thulan once.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Ron Thulan now does games for the Las Vegas are
the Dallas Wings and a lot of college sports as well,
and he said, that's the story, and I went, what
So about ten years ago fifteen years ago, Nebraska did
its press box and inside the television booth they put
in a small bathroom and named it the Keith Jackson
(06:08):
Bathroom inside the press box, and Keith Jackson's name, from
what I'm told, is still on the bathroom door.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And that is because Keith complained that everywhere he went
the bathroom was too far away.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The worst experience I ever had can a game, and
the one I told you about what I had to
bring a foldout table doesn't even come close. So I
called games pretty much from August through May because it's
high school, so I would call sports like football, basketball, baseball, ball,
I did volleyball, whatever. So I get called out to
do a baseball game kind of like three days prior,
and it's a team that I never covered, so I
(06:42):
to do my research kind of last minute and that's
the worst, right. So it's a baseball game after drive
out past Lockhart and you know where Lockhart is, like
Onllloyd Austin. So it's a baseball game past Lockhart and
a couple of things. One, no press box, I do,
set my equipment.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Up in the bleachers.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Done that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I had to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
My color guy didn't show up, So I'm talking about
myself in baseball. And like baseball, dead air is the
worst dead air because like you have to wait for
the ball to be thrown hope.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They well, baseball requires a lot more prep than the
other two sports because you've got so much more to
fill during the dead times.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And and to make the marriage worse, andy it rained,
so I had to use my I did. I had
to cover my equipment with like trash bags during the delay,
and and I had and and my my and I
had to like cover like I had to like wrap
my cords up in duct tape in order to make
sure they don't short circuit all that stuff. And I
thought they're gonna call the game. Nope, about an hour
rain delay and I go back to my silk and
(07:37):
wet seat.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
This is a bleach.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
This is metal bleachers, by the way, So id to
sit down in that bad boy because people God for people,
people behind me, Well, let me stand up. Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That was my worst broadcasting experience.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The years ago, I had a baseball game for Burnie
High School up in Curville, and there were times where
the press the baseball press box at Curveville. And this
is during the Johnny Manzel days at Curveville too, so
they were good. But somedays sometimes I think we did
three different years there, and two of the three years
they let me in the in the press box even
(08:08):
though it wasn't very big because they weren't storing stuff there.
But one year they had basically half the press box
with a bunch of boxes and they were heavy boxes
and there was no place to move them. So they said,
Andy Sarry, you're gonna have to do the game from outside.
First pitch seven oh three, Sonny, eighty four degrees. Nice game,
(08:28):
last until about nine thirty. It's the hill Country, it's
the spring. I signed off. It was forty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah that nighttime chill, I gotcha.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, I could. I could go on and on for hours.
I could probably write a book and maybe someday I
will on places I've been.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Where we go. But it is a fun career.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You have stories for a lifetime and all of those experiences.
You appreciate what you have when you get to it.
I guess the worst in college I've ever experienced was
at Florida International. I was going to say at Florida International,
they have a soccer stadium, and they were supposed to
make some of the suites on and it's an east
(09:08):
west soccer stadium. They were supposed to make some of
the suites available for broadcasts. Yeah, they decided to sell
them all, so that didn't happen. And then they decided
to put a couple of like vendor tents that you
see at the rodeo, like the ten by ten white tents. Yeah,
they decided to put that on top of the press box. However,
it rains every day in South Florida, and it was
(09:31):
a flat press box, so the water puddles, and the
Florida Atlantic announcer was signing off the air and reached
down to unplug and got the shock of his life
and he almost owned a part of Florida International University
until they decided, okay, we're not going to do that,
We'll find someplace safer for you to go.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So they took a.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Storage container, tipped it up on its side, and welded
indoors to it, and then a door in the back
of it. The windows open inward, so you can't open
them because you can never close them if you do,
should it rain, which it always does so and then
to make matters worse, the storage container is probably twenty
(10:15):
feet long, and they have a shower curtain going down
the middle of it to block the sound from their
radio crew.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So not a good sight.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Anyway, we'll tell more stories about that, maybe someday down
the road. Justin Tucker thought he had a job he doesn't.
Memo to fans, don't be Justin Tucker will explain next
on the ticket
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