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Football media days, RIP

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by HejiraHenry, Jun 18, 2009.

  1. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I wasn't on that trip but that is my favorite SWC press tour story.

    The Arkansas SID at the time tells a great story about the reaction from one of the Arky TV guys when he was told the bus was missing. All of the tape he had shot up to that point was still on it and he just about had a stroke when he got the news.
     
  2. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Not quite a hundred ... but getting there ... and feel like it some days.
    One of the great stories was the time the group was moving on in two small, prop-job airplanes. They had to weigh everybody to equalize the weight.
    There was this huge radio guy (huge in stature, not prominence).
    They weighed him, said he was OK to go, he got on the plane and the back wheel collapsed.
     
  3. GuessWho

    GuessWho Active Member

    Ha. And that brings to mind another story from the SWC tour. On one of the flying legs (to either Lubbock or Fayetteville), an engine on the old prop plane starts sputtering a little. Everyone gets a little apprehensive, and one old-timer yells out, "Boys, if this plane goes down, there are going to be a lot of shitty jobs open up."

    (Of course, if it happened today, they wouldn't be filled and it would be chalked up to the attrition process).
     
  4. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    During a Skywriters trip, this information was revealed by an assistant coach at Cal after many margaritas and cervezas.
    Their big recruiting weekend coincided with earthquake awareness week. All over the Berkeley campus they set up orange cones on the earthquake faults. So happens, an earthquake fault runs right down the middle of the football stadium. They have orange cones going from goal line to goal line.
    They have all their big-time recruits on campus that weekend and they are all taken over to see the stadium.
    One kid says: "So Coach, what are the orange cones for?"
    Coach answers: "We're having a 10k."
     
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