I am now almost finished shooting my pilot for NBC. I have one more day to go. Today (Tuesday 4/12) we were shooting a scene on a football field. One of the characters is having his jersey retired and there is a huge set up with over a hundred extras filling the stands. Being on a footbal field is a great and fun place to shoot becuase eventually someone from the prop truck will bring out a football and the crew starts throwing it around between takes.

I went to my trailer to change from my dress/wardrobe shoes into my sneakers so I could play a little wide reciever. I returned with my sneakers tied tight and ready to kick some serious ass and score some long bomb touchdowns. The first pass I went out for, I took about three steps and sprained my ankle. I mean I really sprained it. I heard it go “POP! POP! POP!” as I crumpled to the grass.

I went to the local hospital and got x-rays which were all negative but while I was there found out I had also sprained my knee. Lovely.

The mascot for the fictional highschool on the television show is a ram. As I was being carted off the field, clutching my ankle i heard the director say over a bullhorn, “Take Jay to the hospital. I can shoot the goat until 2:00.”

Only in Hollywood would you hear that sentence. Hollywood or a firing range.

I think I have just found a title for my third book (the one I will write after I am finished with my fatherhood book that I am writing now.)
“TAKE JAY TO THE HOSPITAL. I CAN SHOOT THE GOAT UNTIL 2:00″ – BY JAY MOHR
- Jay