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The Guys! bushes-to-NFL story, presented by Peter King's new site.
| For eight months, Burkhardt sold new and used Chevys for the dealership. He also continued to send his tapes to New York City radio stations and finally caught a break when the 50,000-watt powerhouse WCBS-AM gave him some part-time shifts on their sports updates. That put him on the radar of all-sports WFAN, which quickly bumped him from freelance work to a full-time gig as the station’s Jets reporter. Three years after working at the dealership, Burkhardt landed a job in 2006 as the Mets field reporter on SportsNet New York (SNY). His baseball work in turn caught the eye of John Entz, then an executive for the MLB Network and now the executive producer of Fox Sports. Entz hired Burkhardt for his current NFL role in May. (Maybe the best part of Burkhardt’s journey to the top was when his old dealership boss, Mike Trebino, called him two years ago to ask him to be the television spokesperson for his Pine Belt Nissan dealership.) |
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