Dud No. 3 – The CBS Broadcast Crew (Among Others)
As the operators of the wildly popular Mile High Sports AM 1340, we know how challenging technical difficulties can be to deal with during a live broadcast. Take our week at Radio Row for Super Bowl 50. Equipment failures, power outages, surprise guests, you name it we’ve had to try and tackle it. Take that and multiply it by 114 million and that’s what CBS had to deal with
So I’ll excuse the technical bugs that caused hiccups throughout the broadcast. What I can’t understand, though, is how no one got the memo, or passed it along via IFB (those curly earpieces the talent wears) that Peyton had already been asked about whether or not this Super Bowl would be his last game.
By my count, Manning was asked on at least a half-dozen reporters from the on-field interview to the trophy presentation ceremony to the media room to private interviews in the bowels of the stadium a question he’d already answered. Manning, like pro, delivered the same canned reply every single time.
Here’s a question for all the reporters, “Did you really think Peyton, upon the fifth time being asked, was going to all of a sudden change his tune? ‘Thanks for asking, actually, now I’ve decided I’ll announce my retirement. I was just waiting for you to ask me.'”
Come on. Let the guy enjoy the moment.
