Jim Nantz: The Passion Was To Get To CBS
The Rich Eisen Show
ESPN
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | began with a big dream, a dream when I was 11 years old for some reason that was about the time |
| 0:05.3 | it began to click in that these voices that were coming into my living room on weekends. I was |
| 0:10.1 | completely enchanted by all of them in raptured and I went to Houston with one goal. That was the |
| 0:16.4 | one day figured out a way to be discovered by CBS. Yet I would have taken any network obviously. |
| 0:22.2 | Sure. But the goal was to work for CBS and anyone that knows me since I was a little boy knows |
| 0:28.3 | that that was the dream. Joining me here on this episode of Just Getting Started, the special |
| 0:38.9 | NFL Voices Trencha podcast that we've been putting out ever since the season kicked off is the |
| 0:45.8 | voice of the NFL on CBS known other than Jim Nance. How are you Jim? I am doing really well, |
| 0:52.0 | so excited to have the season here right before us now and ready to get back to some football. |
| 0:58.0 | Now me to no question about that and let's just jump right into the subject matter here, |
| 1:04.4 | which is origin stories and how careers began and how careers have evolved and let's get started |
| 1:11.7 | with yours. How did you just get started Jim Nance? Well, formally it got started when I was in |
| 1:17.1 | college but conceptually it starts when you're a kid and I think a lot of people can relate to this |
| 1:23.7 | began with a big dream. A dream when I was 11 years old for some reason that was about the time |
| 1:29.0 | it began to click in that these voices that were coming into my living room a week in. I was |
| 1:33.9 | completely enchanted by all of them and raptured was hopelessly in love with the way that they took |
| 1:40.5 | me to places around the world that seemed far away and not even real and I nurtured it that dream |
| 1:49.3 | and went to college to try to pursue it and then thankfully in college there was a few things that |
| 1:56.8 | would I guess would fall into the category of serendipity but a lot of it you have to make your own |
| 2:01.4 | breaks as we all have rich and I got started when I was at the University of Houston and I went |
| 2:08.3 | to Houston with one goal that was the one day figured out a way to be discovered by CBS. |
| 2:14.0 | I would have taken any network obviously but the goal was to work for CBS and anyone that |
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