Wow. The sheer number almost kind of blows my mind.
Today we wrap up shooting the 45th (!) season of “High School Bowl”. The shows we're taping today will actually air in April, but after this morning's extended shoot all the competition will be done for the year, save the “Season in Review” show we'll tape in a couple of weeks.
If truth be told, I had a blast this season. It was one of the best yet in the (gulp) nine years I've hosted the show.
Anyway, that nine year mark made me think which, as we all know, can be a dangerous thing. But maybe not in this instance. Having hosted the show for nine years now, that means I've done 175 hours of the series. Each hour has two games. If you subtract the six “year in review” shows from the mix, that means I've how hosted 350 games of “High School Bowl”.
350 games. Maybe one of these days I'll even get it right.
8-)
I personally can't believe it's been that many games. The science, though, is 100% correct. And if there's one thing I've learned doing 350 games is that science is always right. Of course, I'm also having a little trouble grasping the concept I've been doing the show for nine years now, as it seems like it's been, at most, a year or two. But nine?
Once again, the science, as is always the case, doesn't lie.
I am, however, still saying the same things about the show that I said after hosting the first few, foremost among them that the kids who take part are smart. I mean, they're really, really smart. I'd like to think I know a little something after all the decades I've accumulated, but if we were being honest I only know the answers to maybe a third of the questions I ask. The rest I just sound like I know what I'm talking about. But some of the young people who've come through the show the answer to every single thing I've asked. And if they don't know it outright, they're able to infer what the answer might be. And they're doing this at the age when (joke coming here) I was still learning to feed myself.
They're that smart.
Now that production of season 45 is in the books we've already started talking about season 46, what we hope to accomplish, and any changes that might need to be made. And I'm sure that twelve or thirteen months from now, I'll be sitting here and wondering to myself how it is that I'll have done 193 hours—389 games—of a TV show that I thought I had just started hosting a few months prior.
On that note, I'm off to wrap up the season. Have a great weekend!
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