Stuff You’ll Like: Us Edition
This comes from one of our media relations interns, John Nolan (who himself will be interning for NBC on its Olympics coverage this summer)….
Corey Brown, Zach Duke, and the rest of their Chiefs teammates aren’t the only residents of Chiefsville garnering headlines these days. In fact, five members of the Chiefs front office have been the subject of recent feature articles.
The Syracuse New Times made Chiefs Director of Communications and play-by-play voice Jason Benetti the cover boy of its July 3 edition. Chris Baker’s article explores how the ever-prepared and clever Jason has overcome a near-death experience as a young child to become a “Wonder Mike.”
And Jason isn’t the only one in the Chiefs broadcast booth to be profiled of late. Jason’s broadcast partner Kevin Brown was the subject of Ben Meyers’ story on “The ‘Other’ Voice of the Chiefs” for Federal Baseball on July 14. Meyers shares how Brown actually grew up aspiring to be a zookeeper. Fortunate for radio listeners of the Chiefs, though, the 22-year-old Brown overcame tamed his dreams and is now displaying his skills as a broadcaster.
(By the way, in case you missed it back in May, even one of our interns made news. Bill Spaulding received the 2012 Jim Nantz Award for being America’s top collegiate sports broadcaster. And although this didn’t come with a trophy like the Nantz Award did, additional congratulations to Bill for also recently being named the fiance of Deanna Payson.)
Finally, the limelight in Chiefsville was also cast on three others in the office: Wendy and Ariel Shoen, and Desirée Ellison. Meet the Diamond Girls by Jill Romano in the July issue of Syracuse Woman’s Magazine chronicles how Wendy, Ariel, and Desirée have found success working in an industry dominated by the opposite sex.
Who will be highlighted next? Keep scanning the headlines to see. For now though, once you’re done reading about Jason, Kevin, Desirée, Wendy, and Ariel, come find them at Alliance Bank Stadium to discover how the sundry crew is even more outstanding in person.
