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Erin Andrews' Dream Turns to Nightmare
Imagine you're the father of a girl who knows at a young age what she plans to do with her life. She's going to be like you, a TV reporter, and as she grows you watch her hone her craft and devote attention to detail as if she were studying to be a fighter pilot.
She sets up mock interviews with school friends, writes elaborate scripts and performs Q-and-A sessions in front of the mirror. She's blessed with stunning genes, sure, but it's clear she's more than just a pretty face with to-die-for hair. She's smart, funny, pals with most everyone and never takes herself too seriously. Eventually she leaves the Tampa home to attend the University of Florida, where she majors in telecommunications and trudges upon the path you, the father, have traveled for decades.
Like most every twenty-something maneuvering through the real world, she makes a few professional mistakes, but she's driven and determined, two qualities that elevate her beyond the Barbie doll looks. She rises fairly quickly in her chosen field, moving from freelance reporter at a local station to a reporter covering the Tampa Bay Lightning to studio host for Turner Sports. Every day is a new adventure, a new story, but she can't just know a little something about all sports -- baseball, college football, basketball, always floating wherever the job takes her -- because there are plenty of critics hanging on her every word, hoping she'll fail. She stays up late at night perusing stat charts and box scores and sports history books and practicing, constantly practicing. Eventually ESPN calls with a job offer, and for a young girl who always dreamed of this moment, it's like heaven has lowered a rope for her to grab and never let go.
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Erin Andrews' Dream Turns to NightmareImagine you're the father of a girl who knows at a young age what she plans to do with her life. She's going to be like you, a TV reporter, and as she grows you watch her hone her craft and devote attention to detail as if she were studying to be a fighter pilot.
She sets up mock interviews with school friends, writes elaborate scripts and performs Q-and-A sessions in front of the mirror. She's blessed with stunning genes, sure, but it's clear she's more than just a pretty face with to-die-for hair. She's smart, funny, pals with most everyone and never takes herself too seriously. Eventually she leaves the Tampa home to attend the University of Florida, where she majors in telecommunications and trudges upon the path you, the father, have traveled for decades.
Like most every twenty-something maneuvering through the real world, she makes a few professional mistakes, but she's driven and determined, two qualities that elevate her beyond the Barbie doll looks. She rises fairly quickly in her chosen field, moving from freelance reporter at a local station to a reporter covering the Tampa Bay Lightning to studio host for Turner Sports. Every day is a new adventure, a new story, but she can't just know a little something about all sports -- baseball, college football, basketball, always floating wherever the job takes her -- because there are plenty of critics hanging on her every word, hoping she'll fail. She stays up late at night perusing stat charts and box scores and sports history books and practicing, constantly practicing. Eventually ESPN calls with a job offer, and for a young girl who always dreamed of this moment, it's like heaven has lowered a rope for her to grab and never let go.
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I dunno, if my wife, girlfriend or daughter had this happen to them and they kept bringing it up on a national level while at the same time acting like the worst thing in the world happened to them I probably would tell them to shut up.
ReplyDeleteThis might be her catharsis, but I don't think it will ultimately help her, though that's not my judgment to make. It's only hers. That's a few steps removed from telling her to shut up, to put it bluntly.
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