Hurricane Milton made landfall in Sarasota, Florida, Wednesday night, and The Weather Channel’s Paul Goodloe braved the conditions for a live report. You expect reporters in these situations to talk about wind speed, storm surge, etc., but Goodloe went somewhere very unexpected, taking a stray shot at the Atlanta Falcons’ infamous Super Bowl meltdown.
As Hurricane Miltons’ eye passed over Goodloe’s position, he said the first half of the storm had run its course in the area, but warned of the second half’s dangers.
Cue the Falcons reference.
“We definitely enjoyed a little halftime show that Mother Nature gave us inside Milton,” Goodloe said. “But now we’ve got the second half. I’ve got to remind everyone, you might still be in the eye right now, there’s a lot more to go.
“I think back to, you know, the Atlanta Falcons’ first half Super Bowl winner. We know what happened to the second half, when the Patriots came back to life. So do not sleep on the second half of Milton.”
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Hurricane Milton is certainly not a laughing matter, but the analogy seemed appropriate. And employees of The Weather Channel, which is located in Atlanta, can definitely identify with the flashback to Super Bowl LI (2017), when the New England Patriots rallied from a 28-3 deficit to defeat the Falcons.
That comeback will live on forever in NFL lore. In fact, Fox Sports sh0wed Tom Brady a video of that game in their first meeting with him to help convince the legendary QB to join them as an analyst.
But it’s hard to imagine a weather reporter could slip such a reference into hurricane coverage as seamlessly as Goodloe did Wednesday night.
[The Weather Channel]
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