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Do You Have a Lot More to Do in a Basketball Game Than Football?
Football is the perfect television sport. It's laid out perfectly for a production team and for the audience. Basket ball is so different, based on the pace of the game. So i would say football, i view my job more in the traffic cop roll. In basketball, you can't control the traffic. You're lucky if you get a stop sign occasionally or a yellow light. Catch your breath, let the analyst jump in. But for the most part, you are fully engaged with what's happening in front of you. Because of the end to end action, football allows natural breaths and pauses and chances to regather your thoughts and then rear it up when it's time for the
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