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JASON: Isn\u2019t it great that the Masters golf tournament — if you\u2019re a golfer like Rush was and I am — stood up to this nonsense and said (summarized), “We\u2019re not gonna follow Major League Baseball. We actually have a spine! We\u2019re not gonna do what you did.” I mean, to move the Masters obviously was just a tad counterintuitive, given that it\u2019s the Masters because it\u2019s in Augusta.<\/p>\n

But they said, “We\u2019re gonna honor Lee Elder,” and, lo and behold — under the auspices of merit — the first Asian-born champion won a great tournament, Hideki Matsuyama, yesterday. It was a great conversation a few years back when Rush got to talk to his great friend, “Mr. Masters,” Jim Nantz<\/a>. Here\u2019s how that went.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jim, welcome to the EIB Network for the first time. It\u2019s really great to have you here.<\/p>\n

\"\"NANTZ: Well, Rush, it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve talked to you on the air. Of course, we\u2019ve spoken in e-mail for a long time for years and off the air visited. This is a thrill to be on the EIB radio network.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s likewise a thrill to have you here. So many great things in this book, Jim, and it\u2019s so timely, given the roiled circumstances in our culture. Your book and your life — the relationship with your family, the way you\u2019ve lived — provide an example to anybody that that\u2019s virtuous and still happens in this country and that it\u2019s rewarded. Jim Nantz, ladies and gentlemen, dreamed when he was a young boy — like all of us did — of being sportscasters someday.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: It was more than a dream. It was almost bordering on an obsession. I know that\u2019s a little bit of a strong word, but I had this crazy little idea. At the age of 11, I turned to my father watching the Masters tournament. I declared it right there on the spot, “One day, I want to be one of those voices. I want to be there telling the story of that great tournament and all these championships and sporting events around the world.” That\u2019s what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you\u2019ve done it, you became the first broadcaster ever to call the Super Bowl, the Final Four, and the Masters.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: Well, you know, that was something that no one had ever had the great fortune of being able to declare during the course of a career, and I got to do all of those events in two months. It was very special.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of the things I want to convey to the audience, Jim — and I mentioned this in an e-mail to you about what we would do here today. This book is a fantastic thing. You all have watched Jim Nantz and you\u2019ve heard Jim Nantz for 23 years in some cases. But you don\u2019t know Jim Nantz, because Jim Nantz is the best at what he does. He never makes whatever event he\u2019s at about him. He always makes sure that he brings the event to you, and this book is an opportunity for people to get to know you, Jim, in a personal way.<\/p>\n

I want to tell people, if they ever get a chance to meet you, you are going to be exactly what they hope you would be from having known you on television all of these years. You know, a lot of people meet people in prominent positions, primarily in media, and they want them to be what they see on TV, hear on radio, and oftentimes they\u2019re not. But you are. You\u2019re just as genuine and humble in person as you are on the air.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: You know, my parents were very humble people. My father was always one with a curious mind and wanted me to get broader and wider than just worrying about who was winning a game. He looked at the world of sports with a romance in his eyes. He liked to learn about people who overcame things.<\/p>\n

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He wanted to watch sports to be taken to places and learn about cultures. You know, back in the Wide world of sports days when Jim McKay was taking us, behind the iron curtain or the Great Wall of China, he loved that. And that\u2019s the way, alas, I look at the world of sports. You know, I\u2019m looking for something with a little more thought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The life lessons.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: Absolutely, and that\u2019s the reason that… And people have said, “Man, you\u2019ve got so many interesting people you\u2019ve met in your life. You know, you ought to write a book about some of these events you do.” But to me, that\u2019s a trip that\u2019s an ego trip. I wanted to… If I was going to write something, there had to be some important messages that would inspire all people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll talk about some of these people that you\u2019ve met because you\u2019ve met everybody in many realms, and they\u2019re all your friends.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: You say I have a lot of friends. I am blessed. I count you as a very dear friend; I treasure all my friendships. My father was like that. I open my shows by saying, “Hello, friends,” and it\u2019s really a testament — it\u2019s a tribute — to my father, because all he had in his life were friends. And, you know, he treated everyone with such dignity and respect from all stations in life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tell us something about Tiger Woods. Tell us something about Tiger Woods we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: Well, Tiger, you see the game face. You know the focus stories about how he\u2019s locked in and how he can walk right past a guy like Jack Nicholas, the very man… He wants to, you know, break every record that Jack holds. It\u2019s just part of this genius that his father instilled in him. I, one time, got him beyond the game face, if you will. He was coming up into my tower to be interviewed.<\/p>\n

He graciously accepted, and my daughter, Caroline, was just five years old at the time, and she was all excited she was going to meet the great Tiger Woods. And I told Tiger on the way up to the tower as we\u2019re climbing the steps, “My daughter Caroline is gonna be up there. She can\u2019t wait to meet you, Tiger.” So we walk in, and everyone is pointing, like giving me the, “Shhh.” They\u2019re pointing underneath the chair.<\/p>\n

So I get it. She\u2019s playing kind of a hide-and-seek thing here, and she\u2019s just nervous — as all kids are — about meeting some superstar celebrity. So Tiger instantly breaks into, you know, “the game.” He drops his voice down to like a childlike cadence and he\u2019s saying, “I thought I was going to see Caroline up here! That is why I came here! Caroline, where are you? Are you over here?”<\/p>\n

He pushes back some curtains, “No, she\u2019s not back there,” being very theoretically about it all the while knowing she\u2019s curled up in a ball underneath this one given chair. And I just thought, “What a wonderful snapshot of Tiger Woods — the Tiger we so seldom get to see, because everybody in the world\u2019s trying to get into that world and trying to be a part of his universe,” and it was just a lovely impromptu moment.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jim, you\u2019ve led a remarkable life, you have one of the most solid foundations that a human being could have. I think it\u2019s fabulous that you\u2019ve written the book to share that with people, because it\u2019s inspirational.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: I\u2019m so grateful, Rush, for the time to talk to you, and you\u2019re just a great friend.<\/p>\n

JASON: Isn\u2019t that fantastic? Jim Nantz represents the era of when sportscasters didn\u2019t want to be the story and didn\u2019t want to force their way on you. They weren\u2019t politicized like they are on ESPN or Jim Gray on Fox. Everything\u2019s political now because they think they could be influencers or get more followers on Twitter, whatever. Jim Nantz doesn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

Nick Faldo doesn\u2019t do that. Pat Summerall didn\u2019t do that. The old sportscasters of yesteryear, Frank Gifford and Curt Gowdy… Remember Curt Gowdy, the old AFL sportscaster? Al DeRogatis and Jim Simpson. You go right down the list. That\u2019s what people are looking for in sports, not lectures — and I tell you, except for golf, except for golf, that\u2019s what you\u2019re getting.<\/p>\n

And they are gonna rue the day because two can play at boycotts, and it\u2019s high time we get in the game. But I tell you, that story about Tiger is great as well because I remember watching Tiger in one of these Pro-Ams with his kid not long ago, just a couple months back before he got injured. You can tell what a great dad he is in that story from Jim Nantz there.<\/p>\n

But I miss the old days of yesteryear whether you are listening to Curt Gowdy on NBC or Al Michaels on ABC or Frank Gifford on CBS or Summerall and Ken Venturi did PGA golf for years, and now it\u2019s Nantz and Faldo, wonderful backups, wonderful back-to-back sportscasting teams.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what makes things enjoyable and escaping life and the travails of life. Now it\u2019s all politics, and you know what? That\u2019s abusing your platform. I don\u2019t think you know what the hell you\u2019re talking about, and I don\u2019t want to listen to you even if I thought you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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