New Orleans Diary: ESPN Gameday’s Treehouse

Spencer Hall is roaming the streets of New Orleans, taking in the scene:
The Superdome does present some challenges for a television crew wanting to do a live shoot: surrounded by concrete in an industrial downtown, bounded on one side by a thick knot of overpasses, and swamped with tipsy fans headed to the game.
ESPN’s solution to the problem? Build your own treehouse, of course.
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The ESPN camp was tightly run one. The Gameday bus was parked on the street, and a fenced off area cordoned off a little track that Herbstreit, Corso, and Fowler ran all day: up the stairs, update, then back down to the bus.↵