Meet the 2020 Award Winners: Florida Sportscaster Eric Reid

Eric Reid is a three-time NSMA Florida Sportscaster of the Year. Recently, he was interviewed by NSMA intern Sahil Dhawan.

Sahil Dhawan: What has your career path been like? Did you always want to be involved in sports media?

Eric Reid: I knew for a long time. I think, growing up as a young man in New York with a dad who was blessed to be a sports fan, I always joked that my first football game was from the baby carriage. My dad was a season ticket holder for the New York Jets and New York Knicks. He got his Jets season tickets I think in 1965, the year the Jets drafted a quarterback named Joe Namath. The Knicks tickets were about six-to-eight rows behind the basket, 7th Avenue end of Madison Square Garden. And I sort of grew up in Section 100 of Shea Stadium and those courtside seats behind the basket at Madison Square Garden. And I was an avid sports fan. I played basketball as a young man growing up on Long Island. But I found out early that my playing was only going to take me so far. And I became infatuated at an early age of listening to games on radio and I just fell in love with the art of radio play-by-play and started thinking about a career in it as early as high school, and then went on to Ithaca College where I majored in communications and that's where things really began to take off.

You can watch the entire interview by clicking on the frame below.