I’m finally back from the Super Bowl! Boy that was a long 10 days, but very rewarding at the same time. I felt like such a nerd working on set for the week. It was awesome to finally experience a live production first hand after learning all about it at school.
Anyways, back to the Super Bowl. I guess I’ll give you a little synopsis on my 10 days in Miami, boy is that a different land down there.
(To fill everyone in, I worked with NFL Network on their South Beach set of NFL Total Access.)
To make it fun, I will give a top 5 of the most ridiculous things that happened to me or I encountered while I was there.
1. Let’s start with driving. I almost went into multiple panic attacks from the way people drive down in South Florida. They cut you off where ever, when ever, even if there’s only two inches in front of you. Pedestrians think that your green light means it gives them the right to walk in front of your car. I think the best thing was that the large, city buses think they’re compact cars and can cut you off when they’re just putting the car in drive and you’re already going 50 mph. I’m just glad my car and I were able to get out of Miami in one piece.
2. Gotta love professional athletes. I had a particular run in with ex- Oakland Raider and Tampa Bay Bucs defensive end Warren Sapp. On the field he’s known for his cocky attitude and rude actions—well his manners aren’t much better off the field. Before meeting Warren Sapp, I had been working with a guy named Vic, who looks exactly like Sapp in face. So when I met Sapp on set for the first time (with Vic standing behind him) I wanted to tell him that he had a twin. So I said, “Warren, I found your double.” He responded, “Excuse me (leaning toward me since it was noisy on set)?” I repeated, “I found someone who looks just like you…” He cut me off and wouldn’t let me finish telling him that it was my friend Vic right behind him. Instead he angrily responded, “That is so disrespectful young lady. How dare you say that all black people look alike. That’s so wrong.” He storms away, but proceeds to keep mumbling to himself. I just stood there in shock. I could not believe that he just said that to me. It gets better. So then the audio guy turns to me and tells me what Sapp was mumbling under his breath. Sapp said that I resembled the hoe down the street. Classy.
3. To think it could actually get better after the Sapp story, but it does. So people hate Tiger Woods now because he was caught red handed for cheating on his wife…but that’s because he was caught. People would think differently of other well-known athletes if they were caught too. While in Miami, someone gave me their number prefacing that he would let me know of any parties going on Super Bowl week since I didn’t know anything that was going on and he insisted I go out while I was down there. He told me to call his number so he had my number and he’d just text me when something was going on. I’m so naïve in thinking most of the time. Later I received a text “you ready to get sexy later?” I totally freaked! I could not believe that a married man sent me that. I felt like I was in a Tiger Woods scandal, except I’m not the type of girl who gets around with guys, let alone married ones! This really cemented my notion that most professional athletes are sleezeballs.
4. On a lighter note, I thought it was so funny that I had to hunt up and down the streets of South Beach in search of Berry Skhol dip. Our executive producer loves it. Language was a barrier on my hunt because South Beach is it’s own country in itself and you’re in the minority speaking English. But it just goes to show you what you’ll do to make a good impression and try to secure a job out of college.
5. To end my list, I thought I’d show that most guys don’t think girls know anything about sports. On Super Bowl Sunday, I was filling the talent’s cups with water before the pre-game show started and two of the guy talent were joking about how Dwight Freeney’s injured ankle story had been over talked. They were making jokes saying they didn’t even know Freeney was injured and I chuckled to myself thinking it was funny. One of guys overheard me chuckle and said, “Well, you know it’s bad [that the story had been beat to death] when she knows what we’re talking about.” Yeah, he went there.
All in all, I had an awesome experience, met some great people and left with invaluable experience.
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