Orlando Pace getting a shot in the booth?
by Ryan Van Bibber on Jun 7, 2010 5:43 PM CDT
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PrintWith Isaac Bruce back in the St. Louis Rams family, there are some other former Rams embarking on the next phase of their careers.
Adam Archuleta and Orlando Pace will be attending this year's NFL Broadcast Boot Camp from June 21-24. What is the broadcast boot camp? I'll let the NFL explain:
The program, which runs from June 21-24, is directed by the NFL Broadcasting Department and covers a wide range of topics with instructors from each of the NFL’s broadcast partners – CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, NFL Network, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Westwood One Radio, plus local radio and TV. It will include hands-on work in areas such as tape study, editing, show preparation, radio production, control room operation, studio preparation, production meetings, field reporting and game preparation. Each player will tape segments as a studio and game analyst and take part in a networking session with television executives. Each player also will serve as a live radio host on SIRIUS NFL Radio.
This isn't just some celebrity waiter type thing, as you can see. This is a program the league does to help players transition from a career on the field.
Over the last three years, 65 players have participated and 28 have landed broadcasting gigs.
Expert teachers at the event include plenty of familiar names, including Dick Vermiel, but no Marshall Faulk.
Former Ram DT Hollis Thomas is also attending the boot camp.
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Yes, because nothing says "boot camp"
quite like a whole bunch of activities centered around sitting on your ass.
Asides from the poor name selection, sounds like a pretty good program. Whatever prevents more Bill Maases from infecting the airwaves.
"Now there are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours of sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady who has a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese." - Coach Bobby Finstock
hmmm, big O's house was down the street from me...
I wonder if it’s still up for sale (haven’t been that way in a while).
Had a buddy who’s son went to his house to sell candy bars for school… Big O opened the door.. and bought the whole box. He was also a regular down at the nearby Dairy Queen.
Count Hollis Thomas in with those that get jobs.
He is destined to be in the booth.
I’ve known Hollis a long time and he is one of the most loquacious individuals I’ve ever met. Funny and creative too. He’ll be a blast to listen to.
Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
- John Wayne
Why didn't Emmitt Smith take this?
He committed too many pelaties…
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
Emmitt says
“My technique is infunktable. Jerry Jones once gave me some sagged advice: don’t trumpet on your co-host, just lead him down the path of enyeastment.”
"Now there are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours of sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady who has a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese." - Coach Bobby Finstock
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