The following is excerpted from Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard by Jim Gray, published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Copyright © 2020 by Scratchy Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
While in college at the University of Colorado, I interned for Channel 9 in Denver. The station went by the call letters KBTV back then, and it was the local ABC affiliate. The offices were located at 1089 Bannock St., a 35-minute drive from my dorm room in Boulder, and I performed all the usual unglamorous intern tasks without complaint: ripping important sports stories off the AP wire, watching games, pulling highlights and making phone calls for the anchors.