{"id":1724,"date":"2013-11-17T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:42:04","slug":"life-is-a-highway-for-sportscasting-legend-jim-nantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/library\/1724\/life-is-a-highway-for-sportscasting-legend-jim-nantz","title":{"rendered":"Life Is A Highway for Sportscasting Legend Jim Nantz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grand Hotel president Dan Musser tastes “The Calling” on the porch with traveling CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz<\/p><\/div>\n

Superstar sportscaster Jim Nantz and his wife Courtney travel during parts of 48 weeks each year. When they\u2019re home, they \u201clive on vacation\u201d at Pebble Beach, on the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California, near wine country, an industry Jim has now splashed into.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sounds of the surf, the scent of the salt air, and the bracing coolness of the ocean waters stir fond memories,\u201d writes Nantz in his bestselling autobiography Always By My Side\u2026the Healing Gift of a Father\u2019s Love<\/em>. \u201cTo this day when I need a tranquil setting in which to ponder life\u2019s difficult questions, I immediately out to the beach and walk along the water\u2019s edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though they stay in comfortable digs, their travels are not vacations, though. On the contrary, Jim serves as play-by-play sports commentator and host for NFL, NCAA Basketball and PGA Tour telecasts on CBS, which means he spends time in places as diverse geographically and culturally as Indianapolis, Augusta, Boston and San Diego covering, at their heights, the Super Bowl, Final Four, and Masters Tournament. Nantz learned the breakneck pace of broadcasting and travel early in his career, November 10, 1984, when he got stuck in a stadium elevator and missed the first quarter of a BYU college football game he was supposed to call. \u201cRight after the game I was helicoptered from Provo to Salt Lake City. I then caught a flight to Denver where I [covered the] Jazz \u2013 Nuggets NBA contest.\u201d<\/p>\n

By 2007 he\u2019d called the Super Bowl, Final Four, and Masters Tournament in a nine-week stretch, a feat he has replicated since.<\/p>\n

Lest you think all television and travel is glamorous, this summer he squeezed in a three-night visit with his family to Mackinac Island\u2019s Grand Hotel in between PGA Tour events in Toronto and Akron\u2026every mile of it with Jim himself behind the wheel as opposed to a private plane. \u201cI like to drive,\u201d he claims. Last November, after calling the Detroit Lions overtime loss on Thanksgiving Day, the superstar broadcaster, like everyone else, fought traffic to drive to turkey dinner. In his case, it was \u201cover the river and through the woods\u201d to Cleveland. \u201cThe first 30 minutes after a broadcast I am on both and incredible high and a powerful letdown at the same time,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

When Nantz truly says \u201caloha\u201d to work for a week or so, he is known to unwind in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

For the month of November, 20-percent of profits from online sales of \u201cThe Calling,\u201d Nantz\u2019s premium wine, at www.thecallingwine.com will be donated to the Nantz National Alzheimer\u2019s Center. \u201cThe Calling\u201d chardonnay and cabernet are produced in California with Jim by Deutsch Family wines from Dutton Ranch vineyards in the Russian River Valley and Rio Lago vineyards in the Alexander Valley.<\/p>\n

Michigan-based travel writer Michael Patrick Shiels may be contacted at InviteYourself@aol.com<\/a> or via www.TravelTattler.com<\/a> His morning show is heard weekday mornings in Lansing on 92.1 FM.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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