Remember the show "Dream Job"? Anish Sheroff's path to notoriety.
I do. Pisses me off to this day
So it is around late-June-ish, 1991. I am working at Bristol. Steve (son of great writer: Dave) Anderson is the Prez and is working in the building. I get a meeting with him. Just the 2 of us. ESPN liked people there to think of new ideas. This helped keep things fresh and also gave them great ideas for cheap.
I came prepared. I hand Dave a list of ideas. To say he could not have been less interested if he tried would be an understatement.
One of my ideas was this: People are always trying to get hired at ESPN for on-air talent. It is hard to scout the nation to find them. Why not have people send in tapes and we can judge them and the winner gets to spend a nigh/weekend doing SC. In other words: DREAM JOB!
Anderson looked over the list, that had a few more ideas on it, and the meeting was over not long after. I know where the sheet of my ideas went
Makes me mad knowing I handed him the concept of Dream Job YEARS before it became a reality but he spent zero time looking at it. Looking back on it I knew a few guys in Production and should have gone to them. I am 100% certain had they looked at it and liked it I would have stayed longer than I did. Que sera sera but still....................