Posted on 07/28/2011 8:25:08 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
The most recent move in the broadcast career of former Channel 7 and CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez looks like an open field zig-zag: radio color analyst on Florida Internationals 12 college football games this season. It looks that way if you didnt know that Sanchez lettered three years at Hialeah High and, according to him, received a partial scholarship to play at Moorehead State. Or, if you didnt know that after his firing from CNN, he spent last fall hopping around to FIU road games from his Atlanta home with his FIU student son, Ricky.
I played college football. I love football, Sanchez laughed. That part of it is exciting. We all tend to think we could do play-by-play better than the next guy. I dont need money or to chase the next anchor job.
Or, if you didnt know that Sanchez, Cuban-born and Hialeah-raised, brags of how much FIUs enrollment and FIUs team displays South Floridas ethnic diversity all the way up to Cuban-American head coach Mario Cristobal. Or, if you didnt know that FIU athletic director Pete Garcia has known Sanchez since they were at Mae M. Walters Elementary School, through Filer Junior High and to Hialeah High.
Garcia already had decided against bringing back Jeremy Marks-Peltz, the play-by-play man the last three years. Jorge Sedano, the 790 The Ticket morning radio host, did color analysis the last two years on the radio. But, for Sedano, a new weekend job in front of WFOR-CBS4s cameras made continuing at FIU impractical unless he was the play-by-play man.
Instead, Garcia decided to make a wholesale change. Hell pair play-by-play man Tony Calatayud with Sanchez.
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Teaching the Kid how to drink there, Ricky?
No, Stewart makes fun of you because you're a friggin' idiot.
Jocksniffer ping.
To borrow a comedian’s routine.
Sanchez probably played Tight End on the Gay and Lesbian football team.
Looked at his football jersey number and said, “It’s 69”. Oh shit, I read it upside down. It should be 96.
Asked, “What’s a cup and can I drink out of it?”
“Helmet! I don’t need no stinkin’ helmet” and his career at CNN proved it.
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