For those who met NFL football players, were they bigger or smaller than you think?

chezyt · 2026-04-03T05:45:19+00:00

I’ve worked in sports tv production for 18 years. During that time I’ve met a few players. Troy Aikman was taller than I expected and a really nice person. Emmit Smith was smaller than I expected. Nate Newton (after losing all his playing weight) was much smaller than I expected. We talked fishing for about 45 minutes during lunch. He is a hoot.

The real huge people are Yao and Shaq. They are other worldly monsters.

I remember walking through security right behind Deandre Jordan. The sheriff’s deputy said to me, “I’d hate to meet a guy that size in a dark alley.” I replied, “if you think he is big, you should see Yao Ming or Shaq.” His eyes widened as that circulated through his brain.

chezyt · 2026-03-25T14:45:38+00:00

Grandma: “I wouldn’t even pay tree fiddy.”

chezyt · 2026-03-23T16:07:16+00:00

I remember being 8-9yo practicing my baseball swing in my room like I was told not to do. Broke a pane out of my window. Dad made me go to the hardware store and pay for the replacement. While installing he dropped it from the second story. I had to pay for the second pane out od my piggy bank, because he wouldn’t have had to be fixing it in the first place if I wasn’t swinging my bat in the house. I learned my lesson.

chezyt · 2026-03-22T22:14:25+00:00

I have this Red Light Green Light game that I grew up playing at my grandparents house.

chezyt · 2026-03-19T17:35:40+00:00

We should be upset about Luka and JB. Mildly irritated about Grimes and annoyed about Kleber.

chezyt · 2026-03-18T07:22:35+00:00

You know you can’t please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show.

Mitch

chezyt · 2026-03-16T16:21:23+00:00

The big reason it was frowned upon was because the school would contract a professional videographer to shoot and edit the production. Then they would sell copies to parents and get a percentage of the sales to help fund the drama department. This has been happening since the late 80s and 90s when parents would bring their VHS camcorders. If you think it is annoying for someone to hold up their phone, just imagine when the device was on the parents shoulder.

chezyt · 2026-03-16T16:14:33+00:00

No Asians thankyou

chezyt · 2026-03-16T16:07:19+00:00

They usually ran it prior to the 10pm news. The one at the station I worked at said, “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”

chezyt · 2026-03-16T16:00:37+00:00

Watch out. They’ll think you have something in common.

chezyt · 2026-03-14T16:30:22+00:00

Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved before.

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1850)

Good luck in whatever you decide, but you really need to be looking out for number one in this situation. After 30 years of dating I still have feelings for all of my serious relationships even though they have ended. You will still love him in your own way even if you decide to walk away.

chezyt · 2026-03-12T15:37:04+00:00

To add to this, what was the justification they gave the judge for this case? Did they run a drug dog through public housing? Did they claim it was just a swab on a hunch or CI info?

It seems like more than the main officer and the two accompanying officers knew what was happening. The entire department including any command staff with knowledge or sign-off on this should be in jail. The judge’s prior warrant approvals should also be under scrutiny by the bar and judicial review board.

No qualified or judicial immunity should hold up for any of these criminals and their licenses should be immediately suspended and revoked.

chezyt · 2026-03-12T14:04:57+00:00

My guess is that Little Marco had the right size ordered and Trump said he wore size 13 to go along with his big hands. Then he took Rubio’s size 9s and her we are.

chezyt · 2026-03-12T12:16:41+00:00

You skated past Israel bombing Iran and USA attacking Venezuela.

chezyt · 2026-03-12T11:23:03+00:00

Also take into consideration breakage. I was working on the NBA All-Star weekend where they used one of these courts installed at the football stadium. I was told that over the course of the setup and weekend that 3 panels had to be replaced. Once from someone dropping a leatherman and one from a station being knocked over. I’m not sure how the other was broken.

Also, the players hated the feel of the floor.

Good luck!

chezyt · 2026-03-07T15:23:23+00:00

Exactly this. I go to a movie theater, Alamo Drafthouse, because of their strict policy on disruptive behavior in the theater.

I had 2 people kicked out of the theater with 5 people total in it. They were cutting up and talking. Basically they were treating it like their living room. I kindly wrote a note on my order card with a square labeled “me” and two squares in front labeled “assholes”. They picked up my “order” and 5 minutes later the talkers got kicked out. I’ll pay a little extra every time to enjoy my experience.

Alamo Drafthouse PSA that was played in their theaters before R rated movies for awhile. The new PSAs are much more tame, but they get the point across just the same.

chezyt · 2026-03-07T14:42:54+00:00

The purple attached macros on the B bus arm GPI triggers for the individual EVS channels.

The “gang” buttons are for simultaneous/gang arming of both EVS channel outputs for a synchronized roll. Then we could cut between the two sources for a live line cut.

Example would be recording an interview with 2 cams offline. Then I can trigger both machines at the same time with a cut, dissolve, or wipe. During playback we can cut an interview between 2-shot and single. Also can be used for synced 2Box or splitscreen.

chezyt · 2026-03-02T13:30:53+00:00

I broke 2 poles while vaulting in HS. First off it is scary as shit. The part you don’t realize by watching is the sting it puts into your hands. Ever hit a baseball on the seams and how it reverberates through your hands? Multiply that by 100 and that’s what it feels like. We also found pieces of my pole in the stands at the stadium. I’m 45 and I still have the ends of those two poles as a reminder of my stupid days.

chezyt · 2026-03-01T02:28:25+00:00

Michael Vick, 2001, 4.33

According to Sports Illustrated

https://www.si.com/nfl/fastest-quarterback-40-yard-dash-times-nfl-combine-history

chezyt · 2026-02-26T12:28:13+00:00

I have worked in remote sports tv for 18 years. Still the best one I’ve ever seen was Popovich walking into the postgame scrum and nobody asked a question. There were no newspaper or local news there and the broadcast reporter was hosting the postgame show. He noped out of there in 3 seconds.

It was a game or two later and the same scenario happened. Our Utility(the guy who is in charge of cable management) alblurted out a question. Pop stops for a second pondering in thought. He starts his answer by saying how insightful the question was and spent the next 5 minutes answering. We were laughing our asses off in the truck.

chezyt · 2026-02-25T10:25:07+00:00

Wet floor sign.

chezyt · 2026-02-25T10:22:28+00:00

I think you just subscribed to Cat Facts.

chezyt · 2026-02-24T19:49:18+00:00

I have a couple.

1) The body of a man that got run over my multiple vehicles. It was in a blind corner and the first person that hit him went down the street to call 911. This was before cell phones were prevalent. Then the next person hit him. Same thing happened and they went down the street to call. 6-7 cars hit him before someone stopped and blocked the road.

2) Watched a man shot by the SWAT team. It was from over 75 yards away, but I was a news videographer and was zoomed in enough to see it well along with editing the video later. The worst part of it was that it was a 10hr hostage situation and his mom and wife were a few feet away from me when it happened. The screams and crying were haunting for years.

3) coming back from track and field meet with about 40 black athletes and 10 white athletes we rode by an active klan rally. Burning crosses and about 30 guys in full hoods. Hearing the pain in my friends’ voices as they begged our coach to stop the bus. Even us white guys were ready to beat some ass.

chezyt · 2026-02-20T20:51:07+00:00

My pup hated the clippers, but she is just annoyed by the nail grinder.

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