Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/29/07 08:22

Ed Mullen wrote:

> Yes, I was having a great time back then. Poor. But having fun!
> Sports remotes freelancing for ABC and independents. Hanging out the
> door of a remote truck wearing three headsets and a telephone and
> yelling at AT&T Network Ops, the two Bell NY guys lying under the truck,
> being yelled at by the producer when we were 20 minutes to air time for
> the Army Notre Dame game and we lost the feed to the network. And
> watching Paul Hornung in the booth upstairs over the monitors slamming
> down vodkas. Oh, and it was the weekend that the Watergate scandal
> broke and people started resigning from the Nixon admin. And the
> production company didn't guarantee our hotel reservations so we had no
> place to sleep. Yep, we were having just a fabulous time that weekend!
> But, now that I think about it, it was fun! :-)

Those were the days -- because we were young and bulletproof and excited
by the things we were part of. Two other highs for me were moving to
Hollywood, and a few years later doing the Olympics.

> BTW, oddly enough, I drove a cab for a living for about a year back
> then. One of the strangest things I've ever done. I felt like an
> unlicensed psychotherapist or a bartender, never sure which. People
> just started talking and told me all sorts of things about themselves.
> Geez. And this was before the phrase "Too Much Information!" became
> popular.

But "too much alcohol" was, as always, popular. :)


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