I Have a Face for Radio, but it Made it on TV
December 1, 2007 at 12:51 p.m.
Miles Traveled: 940
Hours in the LeSabre: 15 and 41 minutes
“That’s what she said.” Count: 54
Technical note: Someone, (me), forgot to bring a plug to upload photos on the blog, but our friend/beat writer for the Columbia Missourian is going to bring it, so eventually we will get some pictures up.
Hello San Antonio, it’s nice to meet you. I hear you are the home to the Alamo, the death place of Davey Crockett ‘king of the wild frontier’ and the soon-to-be the death place of the Oklahoma Sooners.
We pulled into the Super 8 Motel on Hot Wells Ave. at exactly midnight, too tired to scour for a Wal-Mart and make a sign for “College Gameday”. We planned to get up at around 7 am to make sure to get there early enough to be in the front row, but it turned out God had a bigger plan for us.
“Gameday” was held in front of the Alamo and when we reached the old stone road at 8:30 am the section behind the “Gameday” set was already filled to capacity. We staked our spot in the front row of the second section, there was a path right in front of us for the cameramen to get shots of the crowd.
If you happened to be watching “Gameday” and you saw a mop haired Caucasian fellow wearing a white ‘MIZZOU DAD’ T-Shirt, yeah, that was me. All of our mugs were on “Gamday” so much (at least 4-5 times) that I was surprised no one asked us for an autograph.
The key to getting on camera: ride the coattails of someone else. Standing next to me was a kid with a sweet Chase Daniel Heisman sign (It was of the gold statue with his face on it) and after Lee, Chris and Herbie were done talking about Chase Daniel they shot right to the poster. Enter me! Swiftly, like an urban ninja, I snaked my face in between the two responsible for the sign and my second television appearance of my life occurred.
[Side note: the first time I as on TV was when my sister put our pet tarantula on my shoulder when I wasn’t paying attention. She filmed the heinous crime and sent it in to America’s funniest home video. I was screeching like a little girl, and Bob Saget made fun of me. Gotta love siblings.]
Some of the best signs we saw:
‘TEBOW IS HOME WATCHING CHASE’
‘THANK YOU TEXAS FOR MR. HEISMAN: CHASE DANIEL’
‘SAM BRADFORD DOESN’T BELIEVE IN SANTA’
The best part about “Gameday”: the crowd was at least 80-20 in favor of Missouri, and we booed as many Sooner fans as we could. Jesse Hall would have been proud of the respectful cheering of our fans although one Sooner lady took offense to, “Bob Stoops eats babies!” Apparently baby eating is a very serious offense in Norman.
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I thought that was you!
The favorite sign I saw on tv was "Mangino ate my sign, again!" Gotta love the continuing hatred of kU.
Posted by Laura Dotson on Dec 1, 2007 at 2:05 p.m. (Report Comment)