They checked off many of the first-time visitors must-dos, including photos with the Lambeau Leap statue in front of the stadium and a butter burger from Kroll’s West across Ridge Road. He wasn’t sure what kind of reception they would get. “Typical Boston sports fans, and I mean the jerseys and the hats and the bad accents and everything that goes with that,” he said. Then it just became about the game, which was cool,” Riddick said.
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“It all seemed very surreal and like it was obviously missing something, until the game started and you put your headset on and the ‘Monday Night’ music starts and then you hear the audio that they would pump through the TV as far as crowd noise. Imagine the pregame without all the hype and pageantry to whip up the home crowd. “We needed that extra voice so there was not a lull, a void from the natural crowd sound,” Levy said. Being a three-person commentator team, instead of the traditional two, worked to their advantage. NFL crowds are often like another voice in the booth, and without them there was more time for the announcers to fill on air. Additional video monitors in front of Levy allowed him to see the spotter’s finger or the notes on the statistician’s legal pad. The statistician and spotter, normally just an arm’s length away, worked from separate booths elsewhere in the stadium. Once in the booth, it was just the three of them - Levy on play-by-play and Griese and Riddick as analysts - and spaced far apart. Just being able to see more than 100 smiling faces and joke around went a long ways, Levy said. Each person involved in the production would go to the hotel lobby bar, get a beverage of their choice, bring it back to the room and turn their camera on a for a team toast. Zoom happy hours on Saturday nights became a way to keep connected, Levy said.
“We had to really persevere through that, not just the three of us, but the 125 or so of us that work on the crew.” It’s hard doing games without being able to socialize with your team, have a meal or get to know each other on a personal level,” said Griese, whose first time sharing a broadcast booth with Levy was at Lambeau Field in 2016 for the Louisiana State University vs. Except for the occasional chance passing in the hall, they didn’t see each other until they arrived at the stadium on game day, and even then Riddick, Griese and Levy traveled in separate cars to make the short ride over from the hotel. “Everything was Zoom, Zoom, Zoom,” Riddick said.ĭue to quarantining and testing, they seldom left their hotel rooms. They traveled to each city, but there was no going to team facilities to watch practice or interact with coaches or players. Safety protocols meant they were under the same COVID-19 restrictions as the players. For Riddick, Griese and Levy, the 2020 season wasn’t without its challenges both in the booth and behind the scenes.
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