Some Lesley Visser news

[SF_Express]

She's getting the Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame and will be the first woman recognized by the Hall.

 

[Left_Coast]

I have no problem with this. A pioneer for women in television.

 

[slappy4428]

as long as she leaves her sideline hat at home...

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Good for Lesley, whom I've been lucky to know for some time now.

 

[21]

Awesome.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

If **** Stockton were alive, he'd be very, very happy.

 

[Lugnuts]

Good for her.

Fenian, you're awful.

 

[SF_Express]

Awesome.

No organizational plugs now.

 

[markvid]

If **** Stockton were alive, he'd be very, very happy.

He only looks that way.
;D

 

[Cadet]

Awesome.

No organizational plugs now.

Sometimes it just slips out when you're talking about related individuals.

 

[Just_An_SID]

I am a big fan of Lesley. I have been able to work with her a couple of times during the NCAA Tournament. Classy chick.

 

[SF_Express]

I met her in 1981; we actually had dinner (in a group; she knew one of the reporters I worked with). She was in town to be a clown in the Ringling Brothers Circus or something, and she was accompanied by Neil Leifer, the photographer.

I'm fairly certain I remember it a bit more than she does. ::)

 

[Moderator1]

Anyone who has heard the Randy Galloway story involving Leslie - and it is not a diss of Leslie, not by any stretch - please verify if it is true. Great story, you'll know the one I mean.
Randy holds her in very high regard.

 

[shockey]

she's a sweetheart in every way. a real pro and always a good friend.

 

[write then drink]

yeah, she's really good, right

 

[joe]

I don't, as a rule, care for sideline reporters, but she always brought (brings?) something more than the usual crap you get from the airheads. The best compliment you can give her: She's a reporter first, sideline reporter second.

 

[jaredk]

Anyone who has heard the Randy Galloway story involving Leslie - and it is not a diss of Leslie, not by any stretch - please verify if it is true.  Great story, you'll know the one I mean.
Randy holds her in very high regard.

True.
This, too: She's a rookie, first meeting with Dan Jenkins, US Open tennis. Very Lesley-enthusiastic, she says, "Dan Jenkins, Dannnn Jenkins, I've always wanted to be just like you." To which Dan draws on a cigarette and says, "What, hung over?" Later, much later, she's a character in Dan's "You Gotta Play Hurt."

 

[joe]

"You Gotta Play Hurt". Hands down the funniest book I've ever read. I've read it three times, and it's just as good each time. Dan Jenkins is a national treasure. And he knows it.

 

[shotglass]

I preface this with the knowledge that Lesley is a true journalist in every sense of the word.

Around 1986, a friend and I were at the old Capital Centre for a Georgetown game. I turn a corner in the concourse and suddenly am struck dumb by the sight of her. Lesley Visser was, at that particular point in time, one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen in my life. I mean, drop-dead unbelievable gorgeous.

I swear, people ... better than the O woman.

 

[greenie]

OK, Moddy, gotta share the Galloway story.