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re: 15 mins of fame. They say everyone gets it. What you got???
Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:41 am to FLObserver
Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:41 am to FLObserver
I did live reporting for WDSU and WWL radio during the LA Riots.
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Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:51 am to LSUGrad9295
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a little of that video....that might be the most awful thing I have ever seen
I think I won a Mr Gattis pizza and two tickets to the movies
Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:52 am to FLObserver
I was the stadium announcer/web broadcast play-by-play guy for a minor league soccer team here in Shreveport. That team has folded....but it was kinda fun while it lasted
Posted on 4/4/19 at 10:39 am to FLObserver
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This post was edited on 4/16/19 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 10:57 am to FLObserver
Was in a fancy rooftop restaurant in Boston with customers on a business trip in 1985. The group was me (technical geek) one of our sales guys and two folks (Tech guy and a purchasing agent) representing the customer.
We were about half way through dinner when an old guy began choking at the table beside ours. His wife was going berserk and no one was doing anything.
I got up and by that time, he was on head on the table passed out. I looked into his mouth, thinking he had swallowed his dentures or something and saw a big (much too big) piece of steak, stuck in the back. I jerked him up and did a Heimlich maneuver on him. The steak came zinging out and (thank goodness) he took a huge breath and began to start changing back toward a better color.
The elderly wife was crying. The waiters were about to cry. The manager was about to cry, and I was doing all I could to be cool, since our customers were sitting there, jaws dropped.
They carried the old guy away, the restaurant wanted to comp my meal, and I assured them it was a business meal and the company was already paying. I always thought it was funny that they didn't offer to pay the entire tab, just mine.
We finished dinner, and every time our waiter walked by, he stopped again to thank me. When we finished, the manager walked us out of the place thanking me.
The next day, the president of the company we were calling on dropped by from the corporate offices down the street and wanted to meet me and our call went just fine.
The salesman who was with me got the commission.
We were about half way through dinner when an old guy began choking at the table beside ours. His wife was going berserk and no one was doing anything.
I got up and by that time, he was on head on the table passed out. I looked into his mouth, thinking he had swallowed his dentures or something and saw a big (much too big) piece of steak, stuck in the back. I jerked him up and did a Heimlich maneuver on him. The steak came zinging out and (thank goodness) he took a huge breath and began to start changing back toward a better color.
The elderly wife was crying. The waiters were about to cry. The manager was about to cry, and I was doing all I could to be cool, since our customers were sitting there, jaws dropped.
They carried the old guy away, the restaurant wanted to comp my meal, and I assured them it was a business meal and the company was already paying. I always thought it was funny that they didn't offer to pay the entire tab, just mine.
We finished dinner, and every time our waiter walked by, he stopped again to thank me. When we finished, the manager walked us out of the place thanking me.
The next day, the president of the company we were calling on dropped by from the corporate offices down the street and wanted to meet me and our call went just fine.
The salesman who was with me got the commission.
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 10:59 am
Posted on 4/4/19 at 10:58 am to FLObserver
If I ever get mine it will probably be a Brockmire moment.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 10:59 am to FLObserver
i was interviewed by espn and sec networks a couple times. thats bout it.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 10:59 am to FLObserver
I won a case of Powerade at the Tigers' baseball game the other night, for what that's worth. 
ETA: In 2000, I was mentioned in an Advocate article about ULL fans in Omaha.
ETA: In 2000, I was mentioned in an Advocate article about ULL fans in Omaha.
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 11:12 am
Posted on 4/4/19 at 11:00 am to FLObserver
I was in the Town Talk one time
Posted on 4/4/19 at 11:02 am to FLObserver
I was on Popeyes and pals on wwltv in the early 80’s.
I wish I could find it on internet someday.
I wish I could find it on internet someday.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 11:04 am to ConfusedHawgInMO
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If I ever get mine it will probably be a Brockmire moment.
I'm surprised I never had a Brockmire moment. I was basically paid to be the announcer in 6 packs of corrupt which I would all but kill in the span of a game.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 11:11 am to FLObserver
My parents and I did a 15-20 minute infomercial for Memphis Taekwondo around 1990. It aired on a local tv station at 6:30 am on a Saturday morning
Posted on 4/4/19 at 11:54 am to FLObserver
Used to work Dallas Mavs games. My parents would watch for me on Fox Sports Southwest. My mom thought she saw me during nearly every game. She'd ask if I was wearing a blue shirt that night. It usually wasn't me, but sometimes it could have been. If they'd lived in the DFW area, they could have seen me in the media fray during the locker room interviews after the games. People at work used to tell ne they saw me.
After one playoff game, a German journalist, I'm friends with, texted me about seeing me take my digital recorder to the interview table, and hearing me ask Dirk a question on the ESPN News post-game presser. He said he was in bed with his GF, and told her, "That's the guy that loaned me $50 last season."
The next day I went in to work at my regular advertising job, and told my coworkers I was a worldwide phenomena because I had fans in Germany!
After one playoff game, a German journalist, I'm friends with, texted me about seeing me take my digital recorder to the interview table, and hearing me ask Dirk a question on the ESPN News post-game presser. He said he was in bed with his GF, and told her, "That's the guy that loaned me $50 last season."
The next day I went in to work at my regular advertising job, and told my coworkers I was a worldwide phenomena because I had fans in Germany!
Posted on 4/4/19 at 12:06 pm to FLObserver
Made a half court shot at an NBA game and won $10K
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:02 pm to ConfusedHawgInMO
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a Brockmire moment.
One time when Dirk and Michael Finley were in the interview room during the playoffs, and I got tongue-tied in the middle of asking Dirk a question, Finely asked me if I was speaking German.
When the Mavs lost two games in a row in March during their 67-15 2006-2007 season, the editor I was writing for wanted me to ask Avery Johnson about the way the schedule was playing out. Avery had a Jim Mora moment when he answered, "Schedule, schedule, schedule?"
All of the regular media guys said it was the most animated he'd been in a couple of seasons.
There was a video with sound, but several searches for it, lead me to believe it no longer exits. You could hear me finishing the question under the first "Schedule."
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 4:20 pm to Bulldozer1899
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I was on Popeyes and pals on wwltv in the early 80’s.
That was my dream when I was a kid, to eat popeyes and watch cartoons on a Saturday morning, I was so jealous of those kids. Years ago I was selling my house and my real estate agent was from New Orleans, one day while talking she told me she was on the show with her girl scout troop, I told her about my childhood dream and that's when she ruined it, told me they filmed that shite on a Thursday afternoon
still wish I could have been on the show
Posted on 4/4/19 at 5:51 pm to FLObserver
My 15 minutes are all behind me.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 6:06 pm to JodyPlauche
quote:your shite is infamous, but yeah.
My 15 minutes are all behind me.
Nobody wants any part of that
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