Awesome baby

I always see athletes on TV and wonder if their personalities are true to how they act in interviews and when in front of the camrea. Well, recently, I encountered first hand a celebrity "athlete" who is not acting when the camera is rolling, who isn't putting on a facade for everyone so they will think he is such a perfect, wonderful person. I met the one and only Dick Vitale Saturday evening. I work for the student radio station at UConn, and was broadcasting the basketball game, and Dicky V was there, and I went up to him and talked to him for a few seconds and asked him if he had any time to come and do an interview for my radio show that was going on air shortly. He kindly informed me that he didn't think he had any time to come and do an interview, he was, as he put it, "on call", for SportsCenter, the brand new "College Basketball Gameday" and for his pregame report taping. He kept saying how much he would love to come over and talk to me on air, how he wishes he had time, and how he "swears to God" he would love to come on my show. Well, needless to say, I understood totally why he would not be able to come over, but assumed he was just blowing off another college punk who he had never met before and owed nothing to. My first opinion on Dick Vitale was that he just didn't want to deal with me and my meaningless radio show that probably has a total listenership of about 40 people at any one time. So, I figured, life goes on, on with the show, another cliche here. So we are about half way through our 2 hour pregame show for the big game against Pitt. Out of nowhere Dicky V comes over and asks if we are still on air. In a state of shock, I answered, yes, we were, so he just grabs a headset and joins our show and does a 5 minute interview. What an unbelievable person he is. He gave me his answer on why he couldn't come do my show, but he still made time in his busy schedule to come over and talk on my show. He was an amazing interview at that, totally energetic, 100% like he is on ESPN. It was just refreshing to realize that some people aren't putting on an act to make themselves seem better (i.e. Kobe Bryant). Well, anyway, I just wanted to get another post up and going. But, in conclusion, I just wanted to give a shout out to Dicky V, a pure class-act, he deserves all the celebrity he has, and more, thanks Dicky V...much love!

Gary