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My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting

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Ever wonder what it’s like to interview famous athletes and coaches? For two decades, sportscaster Jessie Garcia has done just that. In My Life with the Green & Gold she brings fans to the sidelines at Lambeau Field, throughout the locker room, aboard the Packers bus, and into the host’s chair at The Mike McCarthy Show.

A self-proclaimed “terrible athlete” born without sports in her blood, Garcia reported on Wisconsin’s beloved Green Bay Packers all through the Holmgren, Rhodes, Sherman, and McCarthy years. She’s been a Packers sideline reporter for preseason games and covered the team all through their Super Bowl showdowns against the Patriots, Broncos, and Steelers. She’s traveled with the team to Tokyo and the White House and to schools and retirement homes, where the gridiron heroes interacted with their fans. She’s visited the hometowns of players and coaches, she’s met their proud parents and their pets, she’s interviewed the team trainer about their strength exercises. My Life with the Green & Gold also features up-close and personal stories about other teams and athletes she’s covered, from the Badgers and Brewers to Wisconsin Olympians such as Bonnie Blair and Casey FitzRandolph.

Garcia’s expertise is capturing in the back of-the-scenes, human-interest stories. In My Life with the Green & Gold, she shares a personal and humorous insider’s have a look at many Wisconsin sports heroes from the point of view of a female sports journalist who has ridden the adrenaline rush to be at the air at 5:00 a.m., 10:00 p.m., and any hour in between, even as also juggling the many demands of circle of relatives life. Not many parents can say they’ve changed their child’s diaper within the tunnel at Lambeau, but Jessie Garcia can.


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