{"id":54,"date":"2006-02-16T00:29:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T04:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=54"},"modified":"2006-02-16T00:31:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T04:31:41","slug":"belleville-man-watches-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Belleville man watches olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(BELLEVILLE, IL) &#8211; <img align=\"right\" title=\"Olympic torch\" id=\"image53\" alt=\"Olympic torch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/olympic%20torch.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>NBC executives showed up with gifts at the house of Doyle File yesterday after learning the construction worker had watched several hours of olympic programming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were just thrilled to hear Mr. File watched and enjoyed our olympics coverage.  We&#8217;re here to thank him and reward the customer loyalty Mr. File exhibited,&#8221; said Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports &#038; Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>File, on the other hand, was stunned that he&#8217;d even watched the olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d been watching Jeapordy and fell asleep,&#8221; said File. &#8220;Next thing I know I waked up and some pretty girl is running around an ice rink. I thought it was a half-time show or somthin&#8217; at first.  But the remote was way over on the other side of the room.  So I watched until my beer ran out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Weir was the only US skater performing the night File watched.<\/p>\n<p>Ebersol also noted that if the US had more patriots like File the world would be a better place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; said File when asked if he would continue to watch. &#8220;They&#8217;ve all been so nice giving me those Friends DVDs and that Cheers shot glass.  I&#8217;m gonna try.  I&#8217;m gonna really try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBC paid $613 million for US rights to the winter games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BELLEVILLE, IL) &#8211; NBC executives showed up with gifts at the house of Doyle File yesterday after learning the construction worker had watched several hours of olympic programming. &#8220;We were just thrilled to hear Mr. File watched and enjoyed our olympics coverage. We&#8217;re here to thank him and reward the customer loyalty Mr. File exhibited,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}