Feb
28
Chester Pitts, NFL Player & Oboist
Filed Under Sports, Music on Thursday, February 28th 2008

During the Super Bowl there was an advertisement/story released by the NFL highlighting Chester Pitts, an oboist who was working as a grocery bagger convinced one day by a San Diego State Football player to try out for the team. If you haven’t seen it, I think it’s a great spot because it brings classical music to an audience that contains a certain percentage of people who otherwise wouldn’t know an oboe from a clarinet.


I’m a bit surprised that Patty over at Oboe Insight hasn’t mentioned this in her wonderful blog, but a quick search didn’t turn anything up that I couldn’t find this over at the wonderful Oboe Insight. It was there and I apparently need to be more diligent with my searches!!

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patty on Friday February 29, 2008 at 6:11 pm

What? I blogged about it when it aired, I blogged about it before it aired, and I blogged about it after. How odd that you didn’t find those entries!

But thanks for your kind words! :-)

Now I’ll have to go back to my site and see where those entries are!

(Try searching on oboe football maybe? Or superbowl and oboe. I’m sure you’ll find something!)


Mark Connor on Saturday March 1, 2008 at 12:48 am

Patti,

I searched “Chester Pitts” and didn’t see it. My apologies, I’ll be sure to post a retraction!!


patty on Saturday March 1, 2008 at 1:39 am

Oh no biggie at all … and actually I would have been wiser (and kinder) to mention his name, eh? All I saw, of course, was the OBOE. Go figure! ;-)


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