In ten years, we've never had THAT happen.
When we last met, I was talking about going to shoot one of the semi-finals and the championship game of my tenth season of “High School Bowl”. Well, that we did, and they're now in the can, but not before we had to interrupt taping for a few things, including but not limited to--
Very loud construction sounds
A broken buzzer
A mispronunciation of a school name during a check presentation, and
A camera operator passing out.
Yeah. It was an interesting morning.
We strive shoot shoot the shows “live to drive”; in other words, we do it like it's a live show—what you see is what you get. Rarely—maybe once or twice a season—we have to stop the recording because of an unavoidable incident. However, we've never—at least in the decade I've been doing it—had to stop a show multiple times for multiple problems.
But then Friday rolled around.
When the shows air in April you probably won't notice much, with one big glaring exception. And to cover that exception, one of the editors at WNMU-TV came up with a jokey little transition, so what you'll see might make you shake your head wondering why it's on, but at least it covers something up that needed to be covered up.
And that's a good thing.
Other than, you know, having to stop tape multiple times it was a fun morning, as always is the case when we do the last shows of the year. It's also a little sad, as well, as the team that ends up runners-up is rightly bummed. But as we were discussing after the show was over, only two teams out of almost 40 make it to the championship match, and that's saying something.
Now, all that's left is putting together a “Year in Review” show, and then setting up a schedule for the (gulp) '25-'26 season...my (insert another gulp here) 11th as the show's host.
Yikes!!
8-)
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