My Conversation with Josh Appel who covers the NFL for the Sports USA Network. Topics of discussion include:
- Knowing he wanted to go into sportscasting as a 6th grader.
- Learning the nuts and bolts of play-by-play as a high schooler.
- Choosing South Florida as his college of choice.
- Overcoming shyness to become a great relationship builder.
- Interning for the Dan Le Batard Show.
- Winning the Jim Nantz Award for best collegiate sportscaster.
- How the Jim Nantz Award helped him launch his career.
- Nonchalantly answering his call from Jim Nantz.
- Being a Jim Nantz Award judge.
- Landing an NCAA DI football and basketball job right out of college.
- Getting his break doing network radio for Sports USA only two years out of college.
- Landing an agent.
- Making the transition back and forth from radio to TV.
- Covering tennis for the first time.
- Deciding which occasions to leave his comfort zone.
- Feeling resentment from older broadcasters.
- Stories from his time as a minor league baseball broadcaster for the Clearwater Threshers.
- Four different broadcast horror stories!
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