Cleveland is buzzing this week. The Browns’ beat the Jets in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton. Joe Thomas will be enshrined in the Hall this weekend. Ken Carman and Anthony Lima have liked everything they have seen so far.
The duo was particularly high on their Friday show on what NBC did with Joe Thomas during the game.
“I thought it was perfect. I thought that was great,” Carman said of Melissa Stark’s interview with soon-to-be Hall of Fame.
Thomas and Stark were set up still inside Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, but they were away from the action. NBC set up a backdrop in a quieter area where the two could have a conversation without being a distraction to those in the game.
Lima pointed out that in the past, that would not have been the case.
“The Joe Thomas interview was terrific that they did. In the past, they used to have him come up to the booth. Now, they did a sideline interview and it wasn’t really even on the sidelines.”
Carman called the presentation “beautiful.” He hopes other networks were paying attention and start a new trend when it comes to interviewing people not participating in the game.
“They need to do that every single time with everything,” he said. “I mean, I’m serious. If you have like a star of stage and screen, whether it be for a college football game, whatever, or a luminary or like in this case where we’re having the Hall of Fame inductees on. Get me a screen behind. Give me a backdrop. Give me a person on the sideline or give me another presenter and interview them there.”
