JJ to be on Ch 8 tonight w/ Dale Hanson...

[Dutch]

June was at the Cowboy game in the box next to us last night with with his son, and THAT was his conflict BTW. Cowboy/Giant game vs talking to Dale?........Cowboys won out.
SO was in the same box with June and were very friendly, so no apparent issues between them I could see...SO said he will be at the Lunch today for the first time all year.

I'll view that as family time with his son won out over an interview with a hated sportscaster.

[SMUer]

There's part of Dallas' culture he embraces.

[ponyscott]

June was at the Cowboy game in the box next to us last night with with his son, and THAT was his conflict BTW. Cowboy/Giant game vs talking to Dale?........Cowboys won out.
SO was in the same box with June and were very friendly, so no apparent issues between them I could see...SO said he will be at the Lunch today for the first time all year.

I'll view that as family time with his son won out over an interview with a hated sportscaster.

True but June and Dale are friendly. You and many on PF's may hate Dale but June doesn't.FWIW

[Dutch]

for the record, i don't hate dale. dude was doing his job. and WE WERE CHEATING LIKE CRAZY, REPEATEDLY. he shouldn't have HAD to report the news.

[ThadFilms]

for the record, i don't hate dale. dude was doing his job. and WE WERE CHEATING LIKE CRAZY, REPEATEDLY. he shouldn't have HAD to report the news.

That's something that Dale has said to me often. He hated that he had to do the story, he's proud of his work... but he feels strongly that he had to do it. And he also feels strongly that it was a story he wouldn't have been allowed to do it in other media markets.

He had a story on Nebraska, he loves Nebraska... he calls up his old affiliate in Nebraska and says, "I've got an entire story ready to go for you...." Their response? "Come on Dale, you used to work here, we can't do story like that!"

(A side note... we really tried to get Laura Miller in the film. She was a reporter for the DMN at the time and had started work investigating UT, she went down to Austin and basically had her life threatened and was run out of town. She told us normally she wouldn't have had a problem going on camera and talking about it, but with the Cowboy Stadium fiasco she didn't want to do anything that would anger sports fans again so soon.)

But back to Dale... he didn't go to college - he joined the Navy, where he got his radio/broadcasting training etc. One thing that sticks out to me (and shocked me) is that he has a great affinity for SMU, saying that it's the exact type of school he would have wanted to go to. He's brash, he's arrogant, he's opinionated... kind of reminds me of many of the players in the SMU DP story. (And by players, I don't mean the actual football players, I just mean people I like Sherwood and Ron Meyer, etc.)

[PonyPlayer4]

Congrats on 7000 thad

[ThadFilms]

Congrats on 7000 thad

Didn't even notice!!! I'd just like to take a moment to thank the academy, my agent, my family.... what a thrill. I just can't put into words what an honor this is...

[OR-See-Nee]

Congratulations, Thad.

Is your agent tweeting about this?