European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Says. Quot we probably went through More material than we Ever had but it paid off in helping to hold the audience.�?�. On a personal level Enberg greatly enjoyed his. Three year  Walsh. However he admits the team was not what it could have been professionally because Walsh was a different person on the air than he was off the air. A Bill has a terrific Tongue in Check sense of humor but it just did t come through on to and i regret that so much a. Enberg says. A very few got a sense of the depth of the Man which was frustrating. A we tried pre planned humor. Id say Here a a Story ill Start and you can pick up on. But after the a game would Start the coach in him would take Over and head get so intensely involved that when id throw him the line wed rehearsed he  hear it. His answer would be totally unrelated to what we had discussed before. Wed laugh about it after the game but that was Bill. If we could have just spiked his Coffee and gotten him to relax a  tonight a super bowl will be Enber go a fifth and he admits that he approaches it with mixed feelings. A a it a the one we All want and id be heartbroken if 1 Wasny to picked to do it but its probably the least in Joab la game to work of any Given year a he says. A the anticipation excitement and importance of the game is narcotic and magnetic but the negative is two weeks of demands on your time that become overwhelming. You become a Story yourself and All of a sudden you re doing 40 or 50 interviews the phones ringing off the Hook there a this network party Here this sponsor party there and there a no Way you can prepare the Way you usually do. And this is one you certainly want to be prepared for. A you know there a so Many millions watching including 200 critics with Sharp pencils listening to every word and waiting for a Fumble. I done to get nervous very often but the super bowl is As close As i come to really being shaky. The Relief comes As in a sure it docs for the players when the Ball is finally in the  reprinted by permission of inside sports Magazine. Abc bowl bound Enburg nil partner Bob  grows a from to sports fan to to bowl reporter by Milton Kent the Baltimore Sunas Gayle Gardner grew up in Brooklyn n.y., in the 1960s, her school Samuel Tilden High did t offer interscholastic girls sports. She says she wonders what her life would have been like if she had been born 10 years later when schools did offer competitive programs to girls. Instead her introduction to sports came through listening to new York giants football games in her cousins basement and watching every available sporting event in television. A it was purely through watching television that i. Became a real sports fan a Gardner said. A and i used to watch everything from the time 1 was very  today Gardner 41, is one of televisions most prominent female sportscasters and she has re turned to her first love pro football a As a features reporter on no cd a nil a a crag appearing during pregame shows and at halftime. She a part of the network team presenting the super bowls pregame show which starts at 9 30 . Get today on an. Gardner spent three years in Baltimore As a sportscaster at Wiz to in the Early 1980s. She said her career and those of other women in sports _ Media Are proof that Given the Opportunity a woman can be As competent at broadcasting sports As a  the Opportunity ii hard to come by. A a what a happened is there a  that we can be worked into the operation in a serious sort of Way that is not just tokenism that we can contribute that we know what we re doing that we re professionals that we have a sports background Quot Gardner said. A my Hope is that it will keep  on the network level the influx of women into sport casting is increasing. Abc has added Hannah storm formerly of can to join Gardner giving each of the broadcast networks two full time women sportscasters. Esp the All sports Cable network has added a second woman Linda Cohn who previously worked in Seattle to join its rotation on sports enter its three times daily sports newscast. Esp has four women working full time in on camera jobs. A it used to be that in the beginning. There we rep to a lot to choose from and the really talented people stuck out Quot said John Walsh Espnes executive editor. A now there a a lot of talented people to choose  Gardner said talented women Aren t getting the Chance to hone their Craft at the local Vel. A the reality is that before i even got to esp i had worked in Baltimore and Detroit and in Boston. I had major Market local experience Quot Gardner said. A when i was Here Baltimore doing the 6 and 11 of clock news in 1983,1 was the Only female in the country doing that. Now How Many years later is it i done to know if there s anyone doing the 6 and 11 o clock news in a top 20 Market athe Baltimore Sun checked the nations 50 largest television markets which have at least three or As in Baltimore Scase four nightly newscasts and. Found that 17 have women working As Spurl casters. None of those women anchors a pc miscast on the More widely watched weeknight news broadcasts. They either Anchor weekend sportscast or Are reporters. In Baltimore where Gardner and her pc dices Sor Andrea Kirby were among the first women sports anchors there have been to women on camera As regular sportscasters since Gardner left in 198,3. \ Gardner said the reason for the absence of women in sports broadcasting is that they faced obstacles that were too Large to overcome. A there was a generation of female sportscasters before me. Trying to move up Quot Gardner said. A and most of that generation gave up the Battle was too big. It was Loo stressful to keep trying to make something happen with people who really did t want to hire you. A at a Point you say a Why am i doing this a Quot. Kirby spent the �?T70s paving the Way for Gardner and others. She began her sports broadcasting career at Walt to in Capsota fla., in 1971 As the Sta Lions sports director Anchor reporter and producer for three years before going to Baltimore in 1974. Gardner went to Wiz in 1980 As a weekend sports Anchor. She said the Baltimore audience accepted her almost from the first moment she appeared on camera there. A a it a one of the friendliest places in the whole world and All people want there is somebody who is competent and works hard Quot Gardner said. A was soon As they can see any sort of work ethic in somebody they re going to be behind  Gardner left Wiz in october 19s3. She had waited a year for management to offer her the sports Slot on the weeknight 6 and 11 of clock newscasts after Bandy Blair died of a heart attack in 19s2. When the offer did no to come she left. Jim Simpson a former sportscaster at Abc and arc to in Washington had seen Gardner a work. He was working at a fledgling Cable network called esp Annc recommended Gardner to officials at the Alt sports operation. She got the Job. There were questions about the National audiences willingness to accept a woman in a role other than the one that had been established by Phyllis George and Jayne Kennedy with cd so nil today a an attractive showpiece to the male anchors. A you can mispronounce the prime minister of. China a name and no one would know the differ in Etc Quot said Chris Berman one of Gardner a former Anchor partners on sport Schrifer a but being a pc. Male sportscaster if you mispronounced the left Wing s name on the second line of the Winnipeg jets. It would be like she did no to know anything. Thais a hell of a  it took Gardner about six months to gain her Bosses Confidence but once she did a i  gel them to take me off things a a you knew right away that she knew her stuff Quot said Berman who is still at esp. A she was one of the Guys and i mean that As a real compliment. I would say that if she was a female or a male. Quot Gayle gives you the impression that she was in the Back Yard with her father at 7 years old having a catch. All of us male sportscasters did that. Not too Many women did. Its really hard to give that impression but she . After five years at esp in 1988, Gardner turned Down an offer from lbs and went instead to n11c. Gardner said she a not sure what her Long term future will be or for that matter what will happen to female sportscasters As they grow older. A when Jim Lampley was hired nobody called Bob Costas or Dick Enberg and said a do you feel threatened now that Jim lamp Lcy a been hired a but some. People asked me do you feel threatened with Hannah storm there a they would never say that to a Man Quot Gardner said. A my response is yes we have to keep bringing younger generations in but women of Rny generation like Lesley and Andrea Lesley Visser and Andrea j Joyce Are  we be Pul out to pasture do i look like an old Mother Hubbard to you Quot i be sworn never to age. In a going to stay like this  january 31,1993 sunday a. _ pages