Roll Out the Red Carpet

We take a moment for a bit of Personal Privilege.

Back in March, I wrote a piece here about a TV documentary series that airs in Miami called Inside the Heat that provides a look into the Miami Heat NBA team.  And they just did an episode that  devoted the full program to the 35-year career of my cousin Andy Elisburg who is the General Manager and Senior Vice-President of the basketball team.  (No, not a typo, their wing of the family spells it differently)  At the end of the article, I quipped that -- "I also believe that the show should be nominated for an Emmy next year as Best Program of the Year.  Though I'm admittedly biased."

O ye of little faith.  It turns out that it wasn't just a quip, but a prescient one.  Because bizarrely -- and happily -- I wasn't far off.

Really.

The other week, at the 47th Annual Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards -- the episode actually, really won an Emmy Award!

Hey, like I always say here, I tries nots to steers ya wrong.

And I'm not fibbing.  Here's the proof --

And just to show that, no, this isn't just a photo of a random Emmy statuette, here's a close-up of the text on the base for those who choose not to the use "zoom" feature on your computer --

And as Andy ways --

"​Working my way slowly to an EGOT..."