For Super Bowl Broadcasting Corporation, the game's “board” is an essential booth secret
Super Bowl Lix story in the card.
Through the card, think of a large piece of stock paper full of information – player names, numbers, statistics, and sometimes annotated trivia – always within reach of the broadcaster.
They are called “boards” and are often created from scratch by play-by-play announcers and color analysts on the day of the game, a carefully organized research table that provides detailed information for commentators. .
Fox is broadcasting Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, and while the network will provide every possible camera angle, no more than one of the 100 million viewers will have a clear understanding of Kevin Burkhardt and Kevin Burkhardt and Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady.
What these boards look like is unclear, as Fox didn’t make Sunday’s game announcers available to the Times.
However, their boards are likely to be similar to those of other Super Bowl announcers, who rely on paper to be safer than scripts.
Legendary CBS plays seven Super Bowls, including one of New Orleans’ most recent Super Bowls when Baltimore beats San Francisco. ” “You did not read the radio. Their reminders are small.
“During the ad, I’ll go back and see if there’s anything that might lead me to the storyline, if the next series’ drama takes me there – Oh yes, I want to make this one. ”
Like his game phone, Nanz is full of nostalgia. So at his home on Pebble Beach, he keeps the board in every football and basketball game he calls, even if some may have ring coffee stains or maybe ketchup in his half-time hotdog. He called 502 NFL games, including the AFC champions between Kansas City and Buffalo.
“It's like having every semester of each semester, from first to twelfth grade and every assignment accumulated in college,” he said. “I've put them all in order and they have their own stack every year. They look fresh. It was crisp and crisp, and the mint was like I put them together a few hours ago.”
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Some boards are tidy than others. Troy Aikman's handwriting, for example, is so precise that it almost looks like calligraphy. And Dick Vermeil's board? They fit the frame.
“If there is Michelangelo’s board, it’s Dick,” said Fred Gaudily, longtime producer of “Sunnight Football”. “They are like works of art.”
Vermeil's planks are as colorful as the King's Cake on Bourbon Street. First, they featured the team’s colors – so the Hawks will be green – and then the statistics from last season were red, the statistics from this season were black, and the career statistics from blue were blue. Academic statistics are written in purple and the injured state is pink. Filling out the board will take him all day.
Nantz built each board from scratch early in the week, and Vermeil would use small pieces of white tape to cover outdated statistics and write them down on it to update them. More importantly, he will have a smaller board for each team in the league – for example the Eagles, one for the Chiefs – and then connect those two parts when those teams play against each other. It's all about his efficiency.
“I think there are still a lot of people who are still using them because I handed them over to anyone who once asked them,” Vermeil said. “I printed about 100 at a time.”
Joe Buck's first Super Bowl board was written in blue, like the blue language. He wrote a “forget” version of Crude in his first version just to remind himself not to be too serious, it was just a game, even if the entire country was adjusted.
“My personal reminder started to get cleaner just because I inevitably ended up giving the board to someone,” Barker said. “If it was an auction for the school, I don’t want to ‘(forget)’ write it there. ”
NBC's Mike Tirico no longer uses paper for his board of directors, but instead relies on a digital tablet that allows him to scroll through whatever information he needs. He also has a spare tablet just in case it's dark.
But when he uses paper, he enters the information and goes to the nearby copy shop to print the board's card stock. If he works in an open air news box and there is a threat of rain, he will take an extra step to get the board laminated.
At one point, his gorgeous spreadsheet inspired the curiosity of a person asked to print.
“He looked at me and said, ‘Are you some kind of high-end gambler or something?’” asked the guy who worked on the copier. “I said, 'No, I'm just a nerd. I like to keep an eye on the game. When they see me five or six times, they find out that I must have something to do with the radio.”
No one has more experience calling than Al Michaels – Do you believe in spherical shapes? – But he didn't build his own board. He relies on “Malibu” Kelly Hayes, who has been an observer of every football game he has played since 1978.
(One observer uses a different board than the announcer and serves as another group of eyes, standing next to the person broadcasting, in a given game, clicking the name to identify, for example, identifying a scheduled receiver, is a The defender who knocked the ball over put pressure on the quarterback.)
“I have access to other forms of information that can attract me by talking to our research team, I can walk back and forth with them in the game, and if I have other printing materials needed.
“So it's essential on the board. A place where a man goes to school. Which year is he in the league. Height and weight, maybe a highlight of his career. You can't put too much there because For most of the time, for Kelly, it points out who made the tackle, who created a loser, who was about to go in and out of the game. …We diluted it as a necessity. Not much time to check it out It and read a lot of information there.”
Fox Studio host Curt Menefee took a basic approach early on as an NFL European broadcaster.
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“I showed up in Amsterdam and literally I had a kraft bag that I had ripped in half, and opened my breath and just wrote the name and number on it.” “(Color Analyst) Cloth Brian Baldinger said, 'You know that's not how it works, right?' It's a process, but I'm starting from scratch.”
Former NFL Run Back Fox Color Analyst Daryl Johnston knows how to put a good board together.
But once… Give it!
“I'm doing a giant game and we've been staying in the W in Hoboken,” he said. “We came down for breakfast, I put the board to the left and left it. Stand up and paid the bill, Go out, get in, drive all the way to the stadium. I have to get a runner back all the time, cross my fingers.
“I left them at home at one time and had to get my wife FedEx.”
For some, this is a nightmare.
“I am very careful to protect my board,” Nanz said. “Like, my phone, my wallet, my Rolex watch and my football board. They are fully protected. And it doesn't necessarily mean that order.”
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The story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.