We had a 10:00 anchor in TX. He would come back from "dinner" so blasted, there was a seat belt on his anchor chair.
He could keep it together for about 30 seconds at a time, however, and do a great lead in to a reporter's package.
"Good evening, I'm Bob Iizzard (real name.) Here's the news. Two cars tangled on the interstate tonight and three local residents are dead. Larry XXXXX has the story.
Larry would then do a report, while Izzard crashed on the newsdesk.
ROTFL From the way the guys were talking, that sort of thing was the rule, rather than the exception around here. Wisconsin has a well earned reputation, trust me.