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Friday, September 19, 2008
9/20: JIm Rome comes into town, visits Buck & Kincade
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ABOVE: Rome met with fans, advertisers and execs Friday. As he left the Fox Sports Grilll, a bunch of fans chanted, “Jim Rome! Jim Rome!” CREDIT: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com.
Bigtime ESPN talk show host Jim Rome, also heard on 1340-AM, came into Atlanta for a quick visit with advertisers and radio station folks Friday. He did his show live from Cumulus studios, then came over to Fox Sports Grill Friday afternoon.
He ultimately didn’t have time to actually go on the air with Buck Belue and John Kincade, who were doing their show live, their 1,942nd show, according to Kincade, who Belue dubs as “Rain Man” given his predilection for stats and numbers. But they did get to talk to them for a few minutes before he had to catch a plane and go back to Los Angeles.
ABOVE: Rome gabs with Belue.
ABOVE: Kincade schmoozes with Belue.
“How’s it going?” Rome asked Belue while the pair were on a commercial break.
“Beats working!” Belue replied.
Kincade called his bud Belue “the governor of Georgia.” Indeed, as quarterback for the Dawgs in 1980 when the team won the national championship, Belue is in many ways.
“National title!” Rome mused. “You do what you want! Do you ever have to pay for a drink?”
ABOVE: No, Buck was not reading the AJC for my benefit. He was checking some football odds for this weekend.
ABOVE: Buck & Kincade are the highest rated show on 680/The Fan and has beaten the 2 Live Stews at 790/The Fan fairly regularly in viewership of late. The team has been together since September 2000.
ABOVE: Kincade does an ESPN Radio Sunday morning show and does fill-in work for a lot of regular ESPN talkers.
