It's not every day you see one of your friends and Neighbors show up as the guest picker is ESPN's "College Gameday." But there, on Saturday morning, live from Boise Alongside Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit, was Picabo Street.
You know Street as an Olympic Skier WHO won a gold medal.
I know her as, well, a friend and neighbor in the Jefferson County community we call home.
She's Become Both an Alabama resident and an Alabama fan since marrying an Alabama man and moving here. So it was no surprise That, When Fowler asked her Thurs pick the Alabama-Arkansas game, she said, "I'm going with Bama. Roll Tide."
For the record, she also Life Picked Thurs beat South Carolina, Auburn, Georgia Tech over NC State, Stanford over Notre Dame, Oregon over Arizona State, Cal over Arizona, LSU over West Virginia, Mississippi State over Georgia, and Boise State over Oregon State.
Why did ESPN choose a Famous Skier AS ITS guest picker from Boise? Because Street is an Idaho native and her brother Roland - everybody knows him as "Baba," She Told Me by phone after the show - Played football at Boise State.
"May I be drinking a bit of the crimson Kool-Aid down there (in Alabama)," she said on the show, 'but I still bleed blue. "
Earned Street a Distinction as the "Gameday" guest. As Fowler said on the show, she was "the first guest picker picking for Two." She Told The World That She's Pregnant with her fourth son.
But her friends and Neighbors Already knew that.
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