It’s football day in Chicago, Bears vs. Cardinals. I had to work, I was tired, and I was forced to occasionally look up to see the Bears secondary getting torched by Old Man Warner. Memories of Walt Harris were becoming a reality as I watched a divine performance by the aging Cardinals quarterback. After securing a hefty lead, the coaching staff decided to give Pops a rest and let the “wunderkind” Matty Leinart come in for a series. He promptly threw an interception which got the Bears crowd at Soldier excited, but not me. While the interception was great, the most satisfying part was seeing the camera man focusing on Kurt Warner warming back up, immediately realizing that he would have to go back into the game.
Two things were awesome about this to me. First of course was the fact that Leinart is a California pussy and I don’t like how much tail he scores. But much cooler to me was the link between a viewer’s mind and the television production of the game. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one waiting to see the shot of Warner suiting back up, and that includes whoever was controlling the production truck for Fox Sports. I’m sure here was a collective “yep.” among viewers that first saw Warner start to toss the ball around, and I think that’s pretty cool. Fox usually sucks at sports production, (i.e. crappy letterboxes, seizure causing screen wipes, the fox robot, the fox robot) but they really had it right on this one. Thanks Fox, now all you have to do is team up Joe Buck and Artie Lang in the booth and my confidence will be restored in your abilities. Oh, and also make “House” have diarrhea in a show so I can watch him hobble his way to bathroom…Whoops! Too Late!
thanks adam.
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