In St. Louis, we are getting ready for a MAJOR shutdown of a main artery. Interstate 64/40 is closed for about two years starting really tomorrow. It was closed on January 2nd but the big traffic rush will be tomorrow. All the high schools and vacationers are back and it will be a mess. While they are updgrading on/off ramps that were built in the thirties, they are not widening the highway or putting in a metro link line. It will be closed from Spoede to Brentwood for a year then from Brentwood to Spring for another year. God help us, there will be road rage galore here. My duties have been expanded at the station. It's nice to have a job and it's nice to have one at a place like KMOX. I can get there a little after rush hour and stay late. I hope to miss most of the rush.
I have nothing but great admiration for Pat Summerall. I have never thought much of him as an announcer, but God love him, he has been in the business forever; that takes some doing and for that, he has my respect. It's time to go. The Mizzou game was great but marred by some of the most shoddy play by play I have ever heard. He missed plays, numbers and sometmes sounded like he was completely lost. I am very ambivelent when it comes to forcing someone out (I will be there someday soon), I don't think Pat needs the money or the fame. His days with John Madden were memorable but that was a long time ago. Which leads me to this...
This is the new Texas Stadium that Jerry Jones and his ego are building for 20 gazzilion dollars. Notice the two arches that are visible. While being the color guy for the Cotton Bowl (played right down the street), Brian Baldinger said this: ..."see the arches there at the stadium? Those arches are bigger than the arches in St. Louis that span the Mississippi..."
Really? OK then, I thought we only had one, and it was pretty much on the Missouri side. That's just me...horrible, horrible broadcasting but no one cares. Give me Mike Patrick, Al Michaels, Dick Enberg, etc.
A speedy recovery to Stephen Stills who had his prostate removed on his birthday. His people said he is doing great, so that's wonderful. I think Dan Fogelberg was getting better, too.
There are few things better than having a great mechanic.
I think it's Obama's race to lose. My question is how many white people will refuse to vote for him simply because he is black? Or because of his middle name? I would like to think we are passed that, but I am not so sure.
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Everyone I know said the same thing about the Mizzou play-by-play and what was up with Fox's lack of instant replay....camera work was shoddy at best.
Actually, the Cotton Bowl stadium is located SE of downtown Dallas in the fairgrounds, while Jerry Jones' gazillion-dollar Cowboy stadium is going up in Arlington, about a mile or so SW of the Rangers' ballpark. The Cotton Bowl game itself will be played there beginning in 2010.
Sad but true what you say about Pat Summerall, one of my all-time favorite announcers in ANY sport. This is so similar to what we went through with Keith Jackson in the BCS title game a couple years ago. Unfortunately, Dick Enberg is heading that way too, and all three of these guys were the soundtrack to my Fall weekends when I was a kid, but alas, they're mere humans, and can't go on forever. Too bad, because I'm having trouble getting all warm and fuzzy over the likes of Mike Tirico, Joe Buck, or worse, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms (aka, "Dull and Duller").
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