Butter
11-10-2006, 07:20 AM
... we don't know what to do with him."
From USA Today:
Maguire, ABC's man in motion, to call game from truck
Eventually, Paul Maguire should call a football game from a blimp. Saturday, he'll call one from a truck.
Maguire called two Super Bowls on NBC and worked ESPN's Sunday night NFL games for eight seasons until he was reassigned this year to call college football on ABC. He works a three-man booth with Brad Nessler and Bob Griese.
For Ohio State-Northwestern on Saturday, that will be a virtual three-man booth. With his partners in their usual perch upstairs, Maguire will weigh in from an ESPN production truck.
"All I do is look at replays anyway," says Maguire, in his 36th year as a football TV analyst. "It will almost be like I'm watching the game at home, but I'll have a bank of TV monitors to pick replays that show the best angle."
Looking at monitors and picking the replays is done by those who always work in the truck, such as producer Bob Goodrich, whom Maguire says will sit next to him and wants to "do something a little different."
At a Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech game this season, Goodrich stationed Maguire in the grandstands — "the one guy who recognized me had had a couple of beers and asked me what I was doing." At the Miami-Georgia Tech game, Maguire was atop a cart pulling a TV camera on the sidelines.
"It was the best seat I've ever had in my life," Maguire says. "But I had to duck when the camera swung around. And when the homecoming queen was looking down at her flowers, we (nearly) ran her down."
From USA Today:
Maguire, ABC's man in motion, to call game from truck
Eventually, Paul Maguire should call a football game from a blimp. Saturday, he'll call one from a truck.
Maguire called two Super Bowls on NBC and worked ESPN's Sunday night NFL games for eight seasons until he was reassigned this year to call college football on ABC. He works a three-man booth with Brad Nessler and Bob Griese.
For Ohio State-Northwestern on Saturday, that will be a virtual three-man booth. With his partners in their usual perch upstairs, Maguire will weigh in from an ESPN production truck.
"All I do is look at replays anyway," says Maguire, in his 36th year as a football TV analyst. "It will almost be like I'm watching the game at home, but I'll have a bank of TV monitors to pick replays that show the best angle."
Looking at monitors and picking the replays is done by those who always work in the truck, such as producer Bob Goodrich, whom Maguire says will sit next to him and wants to "do something a little different."
At a Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech game this season, Goodrich stationed Maguire in the grandstands — "the one guy who recognized me had had a couple of beers and asked me what I was doing." At the Miami-Georgia Tech game, Maguire was atop a cart pulling a TV camera on the sidelines.
"It was the best seat I've ever had in my life," Maguire says. "But I had to duck when the camera swung around. And when the homecoming queen was looking down at her flowers, we (nearly) ran her down."