...happened to discover an open call for extras for the new commercial being filmed for Monday Night Football! Hank Williams Jr. and all!
Of course, we joined in, and we had a great spot right in the front row of the crowd. We stood on the site watching the crew set up the set and the lighting and all--and mostly waiting for it to get dark, since they wouldn't start filming until total darkness. Total darkness, however, came--finally--after we'd stood about two hours.
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Since they were already an hour late and not starting yet, and the director had told us there would be many takes, Addison and I decided we'd rather not spend our entire evening in Nashville waiting to be extras in a crowd scene in a music video (even if it WAS an NFL spot.) We were hot, thirsty, and hungry and had tired feet from touring all day, so we bagged it and went to Joe's Crab House instead. Besides, we were out of costume. Had we known about this in advance, we'd have dressed in the proper Carolina Panthers wardrobe--and been the only two representatives we could see in the whole crowd from the NFC South. Oh well. It was great fun participating in as much of it as we did.