Boom goes the dynamite! A sportscast classic. (1 Viewer)

[Broadmoor74]

this always makes me feel better for some reason.

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[JimEverett]

what the hell??

First time reading the teleprompter? or mentally challenged?

That was hilarious

 

[ShreveportSaint]

That was sad...LOL.

 

[Complex Kid]

what the hell??

First time reading the teleprompter? or mentally challenged?

That was hilarious

http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2785830

<b>"On a March night in 2005, the nice guy volunteered to anchor the "Newslink @ Nine" sportscast on the Ball State University television station. The scheduled anchor had canceled, so Collins, a 19-year-old telecommunications freshman from Milan, Ohio, offered to help. He had never done a sportscast, but how hard could it be, right? You read some scores, breeze through the highlights, and before you know it, you're back in your dorm room doing English Lit homework.

First of all, the teleprompter didn't work. Well, it worked, but there was a new person on the prompter who accidentally fast forwarded through the script. So Collins could pick out only a word here or there before it disappeared from the prompter screen. He sounded as if he were deciphering WWII secret code from the Germans.

But wait, he had the typewritten script pages in front of him for emergencies. Yes, he did. Except that the pages were hopelessly out of order. That's when Collins remembers thinking, "You know, tonight's not going to be a good night." </b>

I still find it hilarious, one of the few things that I watch over and over and still crack up at...he passes the ball to the man and BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

 

[Richard]

That was painful to watch. Did you notice his expression at the end? When the news guy said "Thanks for that look into sports," the sports guy just says "yeah" and throws his head around to the camera with that deer-in-the-headlights look.

It shows just how hard doing that job can be.

 

[therod]

Best part is at the end where the other anchorman thanks him for the update
and the kid says... yeah.

 

[primadox]

Poor kid...there was no way he could do that, with a screwy teleprompter operator and the sheets out of order.