Overheard in the press box

Roughly 400 in the AHSAA...

 

Myles Brand, while President of the NCAA, is attending the Ball State vs. Indiana football game. He gives a speech to the media during halftime in the press box about how great the NCAA is and how he likes to get out and see games when he can. Afterward he asks if anyone has any questions. In a very sarcastic voice someone asks, "So who you rooting for?"

(need to know his job history to get this)

 

Last night was a whipping. Texas Class 3A playoff game had a radio crew in the press box with us. Never heard a guy yell so much. Make that scream. He was so loud and so bad. On a 72-yard touchdown run he kept yelling the wrong name of the player. I know it was a player not from his school but No. 7 and No. 22 aren't really that hard not to tell the difference in.

I can't remember all the crazy stuff I heard in the press box last night. Maybe I shoul have written some of it. Next time I will. Playoff games are gold mines for crazy comments.

 

The local radio guys are the best. If I had a dollar for every time I heard an announcer say "Podunk has the ball at the 52" when crossing midfield, I'd have about $15.

 

Last night the guy yelled "40, 30, 25, oh the pass was incomplete" When I say yelling I mean screaming at the top of his lungs while fist pumping and gyrating.

 

Not in the pressbox, but on the sideline after a playoff game last night ...

My local team, playing on the road, has a 1-point lead in the final 3 minutes. Home team fumbles and local team recovers, but runner is ruled down by contact because the side judge had blown the play dead. Home team scores about 3 plays later for the win.

After the game, I interview the local coach. He's an intelligent guy who went to school at a service academy, but tends to speak in self-help mumbo-jumbo most of the time when he's on the record for whatever reason. As usual, his post-game comments are filled with platitudes about "character," "preparation," "not giving up," etc.

As soon as my recorder clicks off, he looks me in the eye and says, "Off the record, did you see that fucking call? That was total bullshit. We got completely screwed."

 

I'd love to be able to use some of the stuff coaches have told me off the record. It'd make for one helluva read.

 

Not so unusual in Canada, where midfield is the 55-yard line.

 

You crazy-ass Canucks.

 

Former Lyman Memorial (Conn.) soccer standout Kelly Green (yes, Kelly Green) spelled her name differently in each of the four years she played.

 

Let's see. Kelly Green. Kellie Green. Kellie Greene. Kelly Greene. What else is there?

 

Kel'lee?