Scott Montesano
Scott Montesano currently works for Clear Channel radio in Eau Claire, as well as for the Eau Claire Express Northwoods League baseball team as a radio announcer and account executive. With Clear Channel, Scott handles most of the high school sports broadcasts on Sportsradio 1400 and Moose Country 106.7, along with Eau Claire Blugolds women’s basketball and men’s hockey. During the summer, his focus shifts to his passion of baseball where he is the voice of the Express on 106.7. The 2008 season will mark his third with the team. Originally from Utica, NY, Scott graduated from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2004. Prior to coming to Eau Claire, he worked with minor league baseball and hockey teams in Maine, Vermont and North Dakota.
Ideas can sometimes be like an Apple. They look great at first, and taste even better when bitten into. But the longer it sits there, unfinished it grows uglier and no longer looks nor tastes as sweet at first. Thus is the case with NBC's resurrecting of American Gladiators. Hyped up in November (when the writers' strike was commencing) the show has been on since early January and isn't necessarily all that bad. In fact, it's entertaining but it doesn't change the fact the idea sounded better than the product.
Maybe it's that when things are brought back we want them exactly the same, but that is never the case. Heck, even when Fox brought back Family Guy, there were changes such as Stewie was no longer concerned with world domination.
The original American Gladiators was true reality television, and watching its reruns from the early 1990s on ESPN Classic reminds us all how athletics in general have changed.
This reincarnation has brought back many of the same events, the gladiators themselves don't seem to be carrying hams under their arm skin and its more believable they aren't sipping steroid cocktails and whenever Hulk Hogan is involved there is something special. However, there is something missing and I've figured it out...Mike Adamle the original play-by-play announcer. He made the show, as his calls made it seem like a legitimate event, not some game show.
All of this has gotten me to think...Chippewa Valley Gladiators!!! We fabricate our own eliminator at the Indoor Sports Center and the potential matchups are endless
Bill Markquart (Markquart dealers) vs. Andy Lamb (Anderson Ford) to see who is truly the area's number one car dealer commercial personality.
Dandy Doug Michaels vs. Nate Larscheid in a battle of local meteorologists. More than ¾ of those who turn into local news watch only the weather, so who is the best
Keldric Stokes (Predators) vs. the QB from a local flag football champion squad to determine the best QB in the region.
Who would the Gladiators be? Hmmm...that I won't touch but I guess we could take the entire Blugold's football team.
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