Thread by @iowahawkblog

It's a hard life being a tympani player, but every 4 years it is Fat City

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1323734614574276612

Also golden times for people in the Studio Spaceship Command Jumbotron Telestrator biz

I kinda miss the days when it was one guy behind a steelcase office desk in a plaid suit with a big condenser microphone and a paper flip chart, and they told you who won before 10 pm

"This just in, Dwight Eisenhower has won. Now here's John Cameron Swayze for Timex."

But noOOooOOoo, now we gotta have THE EPIC BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE with Game of Thrones martial music and CGI exploding dragon fights over the Statue of Liberty, with Wolf Blitzer in a VR helmet & gloves zooming in on Waukesha County in a never-ending cliffhanger