{"id":86,"date":"2007-02-08T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/dickie-v-is-a-cool-guy\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:47:26","slug":"dickie-v-is-a-cool-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/dickie-v-is-a-cool-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Vitale is a cool guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/1125353.jpg?w=762&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"left\" title=\"Dick Vitale\" alt=\"Dick Vitale\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>I don&#8217;t care what people want to think or say about Dickie V; he is a cool guy.  Working sporting events, I have interactions with him &#8220;backstage&#8221; when he is working the games for ESPN.  People think that the friendly disposition he has on camera doesn&#8217;t carry over to &#8220;real life&#8221;.  Well I can tell you it does.  He is one of the most genuinely nice TV personalities that I know.  There are some (insert sound of my clearing my throat) who aren&#8217;t. Yesterday at the Duke\/UNC game he mingled with fans and had fun with them.  He volunteered to have his picture taken with them.  (see the picture that I took of him last night with fans) Whenever I pass him backstage he gives his always enthusiastic &#8220;Hey how you doin&#8217;?&#8221;.So Dick, you are one cool dude in my book.Anyway, here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/ps.accphotos.com\/c\/peyton\/gallery-show\/G0000ErJUlzCpatk\" title=\"UNC Duke Basketball Pictures\">pictures from the UNC Duke Basketball Game<\/a>.<em>photo by Peyton Williams\/US Presswire <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care what people want to think or say about Dickie V; he is a cool guy. Working sporting events, I have interactions with him &#8220;backstage&#8221; when he is working the games for ESPN. People think that the friendly disposition he has on camera doesn&#8217;t carry over to &#8220;real &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,8,2],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}