Ready For Prime Time
Somebody call the NFL Hall of FAME in Canton and tell them to start carving the bust; the Guru of the Gridiron may be going prime time in 2006!
I just got off the phone with the Tampa Bay Online folks, and things look like they might work out (these multi-million dollar contracts take a lot of lawyers to scratch out the details – the Guru’s people talking to the TBO people… you know how it is) to have my Tuesday Morning Quarterback and my Weekly NFL Prognostication jump to their stable, where they have like a billion readers.
You’ll be happy to know that through the whole negotiation process I was asking myself, ‘W.W.T.O.D.’ ‘What would T.O. do?’
Right there while I was on the phone with them I dropped and did some push-ups. Then I flipped over and did some sit-ups. They kept saying things like, ‘there’s no salary involved’. Just like T.O. I’d wax all emotional and reply, ‘yea, but, I got a family to feed’. Tense negotiations.
Still details to work out, like the delivery of the code to let me into the TBO system. I think that comes in a micro-chip embedded in a taco. Then I think they have to scan in my fingerprints, read my retina and take saliva samples. Then I go through top-secret security clearance, I’m pretty sure. I might get a red phone in a brief case, I don’t remember. If it all works out before NFL training camps begin, I’ll be blogging in Prime Time.
Lookout Blogosphere!
And seriously, thanks to my blog friends who helped me make my case to TBO. We're going to have some fun next season!
I just got off the phone with the Tampa Bay Online folks, and things look like they might work out (these multi-million dollar contracts take a lot of lawyers to scratch out the details – the Guru’s people talking to the TBO people… you know how it is) to have my Tuesday Morning Quarterback and my Weekly NFL Prognostication jump to their stable, where they have like a billion readers.
You’ll be happy to know that through the whole negotiation process I was asking myself, ‘W.W.T.O.D.’ ‘What would T.O. do?’
Right there while I was on the phone with them I dropped and did some push-ups. Then I flipped over and did some sit-ups. They kept saying things like, ‘there’s no salary involved’. Just like T.O. I’d wax all emotional and reply, ‘yea, but, I got a family to feed’. Tense negotiations.
Still details to work out, like the delivery of the code to let me into the TBO system. I think that comes in a micro-chip embedded in a taco. Then I think they have to scan in my fingerprints, read my retina and take saliva samples. Then I go through top-secret security clearance, I’m pretty sure. I might get a red phone in a brief case, I don’t remember. If it all works out before NFL training camps begin, I’ll be blogging in Prime Time.
Lookout Blogosphere!
And seriously, thanks to my blog friends who helped me make my case to TBO. We're going to have some fun next season!
4 Comments:
Man!! I missed the push-ups!!
WOO-HOO!!! I AM SO PSYCHED FOR YOU!!!!
do I need security clearance too??? :-)
Love ~G
By germaine, at 6/12/2006 1:02 PM
This is soooooo exciting! I hope they let the Guru write his own stuff without too much interference. Now we have to share you with the rest of the world! I hope you are ready for the fame (and the fortune that is sure to follow)!!!!!! Congrats!
By Jackie, at 6/12/2006 2:13 PM
I'm truly excited and happy for you, man. But for some reason this reminded me of DC Talk's "My Friend (so long)":
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I read your interview in Rolling Stone
You threw the boys a bone
And so I genuinely felt obliged to call
I know You never meant to hurt us, man
We're just a baby band
You found a quicker way
To scale the wall of fame
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You'll be all like, famous and us ordinary folks, we'll be all like yeah, we knew Darin before he turned pro, went to work for the Glazers, all that. Yeah. And we'll be watching games on crappy TVs and they'll switch to some filler zoom-shot on some luxury box and we'll be like, Darin! There he is!
:-D
Seriously - hope this works out. Seems like fun for you, and it would definitely be a plus for Bucs fans everywhere.
By Radioactive Jam, at 6/12/2006 4:42 PM
Very fun... I like knowing famous people... don't forget to send me your autograph :)
Hey, can you have guest bloggers???
Hey hey Tampa Bay, the Bucs know how to shine!
(am I a fan or what?? Just humming the above chant makes me see flashes of really ugly orange and a big ZERO on the scoreboard...)
By LeAnne, at 6/12/2006 6:32 PM
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