[NU Sports] Not everything's coming up Roses ...

[Jason Singer]

Interestingly, I worked the opening segment of the Rose Parade this morning.
I wrangled and managed the talent (dancers, aerialists, musicians) you saw
in the Leeann Rimes opening segment, which if you saw, you then know I got
to spend a lot of time with some incredibly beautiful dancers and circus
performers, which made a very wet day a little less rough.

I worked from 10PM last night until an hour ago and it did not stop raining
for more than 10 minutes the entire 14 hours, but more importantly, I can
tell you with absolute truth that Leann Rimes did NOT lip sync. The women
who introduced her did, but Leeann sang live to a track and was a true pro.

That said, while I'm no fan of either country music or gimmicks, the Rose
Parade NEEDS that kind of thing. Ratings have been in the toilet for some
time now and they felt they needed to do something to get people watching.

It was my first time back at the Parade since we played there and I gotta
say, in spite of the rain, the crowds were amazing and those crowds were
totally into the experience. It just made me wish we were playing in the
game all the more.

Off to sleep! 

Good to see some of you in El Paso!!!

- jason singer SP'86


On 1/2/06 9:03 AM, "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ouch - watching the "only parade I'd ever care to
> march in or watch -- including homecoming:)" on TV
> from Pasadena today is painful! The wind ... the rain
> ... the USC band:) ... someone in Pasadena has angered
> Mother Nature!
> 
> Could it be that the bowl has had only one traditional
> Big Ten-Pac 10 matchup in the last five years (with
> more visits from Big XII land than Pac 10 or Big Ten)?
> 
> Could it be that the Rose Parade of all things has
> stooped to the pop/country star corny lip-sync
> performances to "spice up" the demos instead of
> sticking to their amazing floats and traditional
> bands?
> 
> Whatever the case, it sure doesn't seem like Bowl Day
> with no sun in Pasadena and no real Rose Bowl. Thanks
> BCS!
> 
> Wow - it really doesn't seem like a decade ago that we
> had to get up at the hotel sooooo early, put on the
> NUMB uniform and march in that parade! And getting a
> tour of the floats up close a couple nights before was
> just amazing - the amount of skill and work that goes
> into those. What a blast - hope the purple can return
> to Pasadena sometime soon.
> 
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
> 
> * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!!
> 
> 
> 
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