Game Night

Posting at 10:12 pm on yet another Saturday night at the office...

Interesting TV tap dance today when the Florida State-NC State game fell victim to a lightning delay in the 3rd quarter. We were already tight for time -- the plan was to provide live Seminole Postgame coverage for at least a half-hour until a scheduled Gator Pregame show started at 7:30pm. Once the FSU game reached a 45-minute delay, we knew we had no shot. The Seminoles wouldn't finish until nearly 7:45pm, and thus beginneth the dance.

Do the first segment of Florida content from the studio and Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. Take a break. Hustle Terry Norvelle into a seat next to Brady Ackerman. Come back from break. Remind everyone watching that we'll still be bringing more live reports from LSU, but for now, here's Bobby Bowden. Some FSU analysis from the Sun Sports broadcast team in Tallahassee. Take another break. Good times.

Fortunately, the TV audience doesn't get to enjoy the special insanity of the control room during these dual postgame/pregame shows, where our producer, director, tape operators, graphics operators, and crew pull their hair out to communicate with crews in both Tallahassee and Baton Rouge, switch out the graphics when necessary, make sure we hit our commercial breaks, make sure we get every sponsored element into the show, and generally perform blind surgery at Warp Factor Ten. REALLY good times.

But it got on TV, which is all that matters.