FoxTale Studio: Sports
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It all began with a kid and a dream.\n\nThe kid\'s name is Cecil. When he was 11 years old, he went to his first football practice and found his dream--playing ball in the NFL.\n\nHe trained hard, studied hard, played hard. He watched game footage, played Madden and compared that game to the real one, learning a lot about both. He also began doing something else: he began calling the Madden games as he played them. It wasn\'t long before his chosen career path was completely set in his mind: He\'d play football as a pro, retire when it was time to retire and find a home somewhere calling play-by-play. He paid close attention to his two biggest heroes, Lanny Frattare and Greg Brown, and kept working and studying and practicing.\n\nHe kept dreaming, too.\n\nOne of his oldest friends bought Cecil a hand-held recorder, something he could practice calling games into. A freshman in college now, and a walk-on for his school\'s team (but blocked from participation in his freshman year by the NCAA), Cecil studied hard, lifted weights, ran passing drills with his dad and began going to Friday night games to watch his high school team, the Brookville Blue Raiders. He took his recorder along and practiced his play calls. Then came the evening that he turned to his father and said, \'Dad, I need someone to do color. I can\'t get a good balance trying to do both.\' His dad, who had more aspirations to be a tie-dyed, armor-plated, antediluvian aardvark than a football commentator, found himself doing color.\n\nThis was sometime in the Fall of 2014.\n\nSince then, the father and son team took on the name of FoxTale Studio: Sports. For several years, they covered the entire season of Brookville Raiders football as well as the home games of Cecil\'s first school, Robert Morris University, as podcasts, cutting the full game calls down to highlight collections and posting them to an account on SoundCloud. In 2019, FTSS began livestreaming Raiders games and cutting highlight footage together, sharing both on YouTube. Neither one is certain where all of this is going, but they\'re both pretty happy to be, well, livin\' the dream.\n\nThis space is their home on Rumble and they\'re very pleased to welcome you.