Barry Tompkins: Hello to a new season, goodbye to an old friend

Over the years I’ve been asked to broadcast some events that fall into the category of “not so interesting.” One was the Olympic bobsled competition. “How do you call a bobsled race?’, I thought to myself. So I asked an expert who broadcast the sport for German television. He said, “Here they come……there they go.” There you have it.

Another time I did the National Chicken Flying Championships. Here they stuffed a chicken in a mailbox attached to a six foot post, and then pushed the unsuspecting bird out of the mailbox with a plunger.