Still gotta laugh when you walk past the Viz Van.
Where I sat in the truck, was very close to the door. Unfortunately, with the extreme temps outside, it got extremely hot where I sat due to the proximity to the door.
Since we were packed in to our benches like sardines, I couldn’t move over to the right at all. Just 3 inches to the right, it was cold.
During game action, I would be dripping with sweat and my AP, sitting to my right, was freezing! So in commercial breaks I would stand up behind him to cool down.
After our 2 games, we stayed for a few hours to build for our game on Friday. Just was we were getting ready to leave, word came in that John Wooden was about to die. So we needed to prep some obit panels since he would likely pass during the next two games.
Well this simple task turned into a several hour ordeal. We had difficulty getting the correct graphic layout for an obit. After we solved that, we have even greater difficulty getting a photo or headshot of Mr. Wooden. Which is laughable, however, at the time, we were not laughing! There were endless photos of him on the air during SportsCenter – we know the photos exist – we just couldn’t get a hold of anyone to give them to us!
I know it seems silly to ya’ll – but we can’t just grab a photo off the internet. There are strict guidelines in place on how we obtain photos for legal reasons.
Anyway – we spent easily 2 hours working on the obit panel.
After all that, he didn’t even die tonight.
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