There’s no place like home

There really is nothing like a hometown football game.

It’s great to see the parents come out to support their kids on the team, in the band, or on the cheerleading squad.
What’s even better is seeing the fans that really don’t have any parental affiliation to be there, but they come out to support the home team.

And the home fans wanted football. The athletic director told me that there were 200 tickets sold in the first 30 minutes of them going on sale.

Once again, things were different. I got tracked down so someone could take my temperature. We had a plexiglass partition next to our broadcast set up to separate us from the rest of the press box. The visiting radio and video team had to set up in the top row of the bleachers. However, no one complained. We were all just glad to be there.

The game didn’t go how we wanted. Grenada has a good team, but our guys are still trying to get down the new offense. There were marked improvements on defense however. I have confidence that they’ll get it all put together soon.

Highlights of the night:

• For the 3rd year in a row, I am once again the pregame stadium DJ. I had all of the usual “pump jams” on the playlist, but “Don’t Stand so Close to Me” and “Can’t Touch This” got a few laughs from the crowd. The California Love-Fresh Prince of Bel-Air remix also was quite popular.
• This was our first video broadcast of the year and it went great. No issues at all. We had a lot of people tuned in due to the capacity restrictions at the games. I was also told a restaurant downtown had the stream on a TV in the bar.
• This was a crazy hectic week. I had sooo much work to do that wasn’t football related. And Friday I spent most of the day trying to fix a problem with our other football video stream. Ultimately, that couldn’t be fixed so that broadcast was audio only. That irked me a bit because that means those fans that can’t go to the game, wouldn’t be able to watch. So I wasn’t in the best mood when I left the station to go home to get ready for our game, but as soon as I stepped in our press box, all that went away.