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New York Sports History and Broadcast Excellence: Todd Ehrlich's Story and Entrepreneurial Insights
November 4, 2024
Good Neighbor Podcast
New York Sports History and Broadcast Excellence: Todd Ehrlich's Story and Entrepreneurial Insights
Todd Ehrlich, a celebrated Emmy-winning producer and author, graces our latest episode with stories from his illustrious career in sports media. Todd takes us on a nostalgic journey through New York sports history, sharing insights from his acclaimed book, "The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History." With his roots in the television production industry, Todd recounts how his previous show, "Sports from the Roundtable," along with his collaboration with sports writer Gary Myers, inspired him to craft these unforgettable sports narratives. His personal connection to the New York Islanders, revealed through captivating anecdotes, adds a heartfelt touch to his storytelling.
Explore the dynamic world of sports broadcasting and discover how Todd's entrepreneurial spirit led to the creation of T-Line TV, a company that has consistently set the bar for excellence in corporate communications and video production. Through the lens of his personal experiences, including a pivotal health scare, Todd emphasizes the importance of balancing passion and sustainability in one's career. As a bonus, listeners will delight in a sneak peek at an exciting new Islanders project and feel a sense of community through Todd's engaging tales. Tune in for an episode filled with passion, history, and the promise of more intriguing stories yet to come.
WFAN with Marc Malusis
June 15, 2024
WFAN
WFAN with Marc Malusis - promoting the Boomer and Simms Event
WFAN: Joe Benigno Promoting Barnes & Noble Event
June 15, 2024
WFAN
WFAN with Joe Benigno - promoting Barnes & Noble Event
Sportsmap Radio: The Big E Show - Super Bowl Sunday
February 11, 2024
Sportsmap Radio
The Big E Show - Super Bowl Sunday
WFUV Sports One on One: Todd Ehrlich and the 20 Greatest New York Sports Moments
January 19, 2024
WFUV Sports One on One
Todd Ehrlich and the 20 Greatest New York Sports Moments
Notes From an Artist: Author TV Journalist Todd Erhlich's 20 Greatest Moments in NY Sports History
September 28, 2023
Notes From an Artist
Author TV Journalist Todd Erhlich's 20 Greatest Moments in NY Sports History
Sports TV Journalist / Author Todd Ehrlich Reveals The Twenty Greatest Moments in New York Sports History in New Book welcome best-selling author and sports TV journalist/producer Todd Ehrlich to discuss his new book The Twenty Greatest Moments in New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories from 1960 to Today (Sports Publishing).
SiriusXM MLB Radio: MLB Radio "Remember When"
September 15, 2023
SiriusXM MLB Radio
MLB Radio "Remember When"
910AM NYC with Todd Ehrlich and Jim Leyritz
September 5, 2023
The Tommy Cetnar Show
Jim Leyritz (910AM NYC)
Spotify: Talkin' Ball with Pat Leonard
September 5, 2023
Spotify
Talkin' Ball with Pat Leonard
Ep. 54 of Talkin' Ball with Pat Leonard, the New York Daily News' NFL columnist and Giants beat writer.
Pat sits down with WPIX 11 executive producer of sports Todd Ehrlich to discuss his new book, 'The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History,' a collaboration with longtime Daily News columnist Gary Myers.
Ehrlich did more than 100 original, fresh interviews with the athletes and personalities who were at the center of New York sports fans' greatest memories.
That includes Joe Namath, Eli Manning, Mark Messier, Bob Nystrom, Walt 'Clyde' Frazier, Mookie Wilson, Harry Carson, David Tyree and many more. They share never-before-heard insights and help you re-live the magical moments.
In the podcast, Ehrlich and Leonard dive into some of his top Giants stories about Super Bowl XLII, Super Bowl XXV, Super Bowl XXI, Bill Parcells and more through the eyes of Phil McConkey, Carson, Manning, Tyree, Jeff Hostetler, Leonard Marshall, Bob Papa and more. New York Post sportswriter Peter Botte also contributes to this must-have book for New York sports fans.
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The Times of London
August 31, 2024
The Times of London
When did New York get so bad at sports?
Todd Ehrlich, co-author of The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History, has spent decades interviewing players, coaches and owners in the locker rooms and c-suites of the city’s biggest arenas.
Ehrlich said that New York athletes faced added pressures and high expectations from the city’s high concentration of media and “hardcore” fanbases. These fans are willing to pay an average of $213 to see a game in the city — well above the national average of $90 to $110, according to NYSafeBets.
“They live and die with their teams and they know their history,” Ehrlich said of the fans. “They know good baseball. They know good football. They know good basketball. They are connoisseurs of the sport. And guess what? They’re not shy. You make a mistake, and they’re gonna blast you.”
He likens the Yankees to Manchester United. Rival fans love to hate them, celebrate their losses, and covet their past success.
“Ownership sets the tone for organizations,” said Ehrlich. “The culture starts from the top down. And if you look at Hal Steinbrenner, he is not the heavy-handed win-at-all-cost owner that his father George was.”
Staten Island Advance: Staten Island Baseball Oldtimers invited this first-time author, 5-time Emmy winner to its latest meeting
September 20, 2024
Staten Island Advance
Staten Island Baseball Oldtimers invited this first-time author, 5-time Emmy winner to its latest meeting
Pascack Press: Here’s the pitch—meet the author at B&N June 15
June 14, 2024
Pascack Press
Here’s the pitch—meet the author at B&N June 15
RIVER VALE—Todd Ehrlich is founder and president of T-LINE TV, a production company dedicated to broadcast, sports, and commercial television production. A five-time Emmy Award winner and 22-time Emmy nominee, Ehrlich has covered two Olympics, the Super Bowl, World Series, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, and Triple Crown races. He has interviewed the most prominent sports personalities of the era during his 40 years in the business.
His book “The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories, From 1960 to Today” (with Gary Myers; foreword by David Tyree), has sold out its first printing. He’s had three signings in Bergen County: at Bookends in Ridgewood, Vale Coffee Shoppe in River Vale, and Bergen Book Studio in Hillsdale.
The day before Father’s Day, June 15 at 2 p.m., he’ll be signing copies at Barnes & Noble on Route 17.
Originally from Washington, D.C., Ehrlich resides in River Vale with his wife, Debbie, and son, Jagger.
“Including over 100 original interviews and information previously unreleased,” the hardcover resource is a terriffic read and companion for anyone fluent in, or even just curious about, the most memorable sports moments to happen in the Big Apple.
Collected for the first time, “The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History” chronicles the most memorable sporting events in New York’s history, ranking them based on importance and effect on the sport (and city).
The book is for the sports fan and anyone who appreciates the amazing effect that baseball, basketball, football, hockey, tennis, golf, boxing, and numerous other sports can have on our cities and country as a whole.
Stockbridge Updates: A Mother’s Prerogative
June 1, 2024
Stockbridge Updates
A Mother’s Prerogative
What a joy to have both my boys together at such a wonderful event — a dinner and speech by one son about his book introduced by my other son introduced by his brother.
Joe Favorito Newsletter: All Nice, None Naughty; A Dozen Holiday Book Ideas I Actually Read…
December 15, 2023
Joe Favorito Newsletter
All Nice, None Naughty; A Dozen Holiday Book Ideas I Actually Read…
Take two is a little more fun and lighthearted, as Myers teams with veteran sports and news producer Todd Ehlrich to out context to debates in NY sports history. Broken down into four parts, each event gives you the storyline, the justification and then the debate with lots of first person accounts to support. No losers here, and it has great potential for replication elsewhere.
Brooklyn Digest: Books: Sports Titles Perfect For The Fanatic In Your Life
December 1, 2023
Brooklyn Digest
“Books: Sports Titles Perfect For The Fanatic In Your Life.”
Todd Ehrlich is the founder and president of T-LINE TV, a television production company dedicated to broadcast, sports, and commercial TV production. Currently the executive sports producer for WPIX, he has covered two Olympics, the Super Bowl, World Series, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, and Triple Crown races. Gary Myers is a longtime sports journalist for the New York Daily News who was their NFL columnist for many years, and the author of five books, most recently Once a Giant. David Tyree is a retired NFL player who spent six years with the New York Giants, and is most known for making "The Helmet Catch" to help lead them to an upset of the undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII in February 2008.
The 20 Greatest Moments In New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories, From 1960 To Today is Ehrlich and Myers' new book chronicling highlights etched in our memories, and why they are still talked about today. For example, who can forget where they were when Joe Namath and the Jets won Super Bowl III?
These great moments are bookended by Yankees, which makes sense since it's the most successful team in American sports, starting with Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's home run record with 61 home runs in 1961, all the way to Aaron Judge blasting 62 home runs to pass him in 2022.
While there is plenty of baseball, such as Reggie Jackson's three home run performance to lead the Yankees to win the 1977 World Series and the Miracle Mets in 1969, these great moments are across all sports, such as Willis Reed taking the court to lead the Knicks to their first championship in 1970.
Ehrlich and Myers also do a great job of acknowledging that New York is also known for hosting world-class events, such as Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier championship boxing matches, the annual spectacles of US Open Tennis and the Belmont Stakes, and when it comes around, US Open golf.
Broken down into four parts, each event includes the backstory of what led up to that moment, original materials from media coverage of it, a column from a local journalist to lend perspective, and first-person accounts from the men and women involved. There also is a time capsule of cultural references, such as who the President of the United States and Mayor of New York was, who triumphed at the Oscars, and what the price of gas was when the moment occurred. It is all taken into account as the sporting events are rated based on importance and effect on the sport and city.
In this excerpt, Ehrlich and Myers write about the build-up to Super Bowl XLII for the Giants and Patriots, whose season began against the other tenants of the Meadowlands, "The Jets were first up to start the 2007 regular season. On September 9, 2007, Matt Estrella, a Patriots video assistant, was caught illegally taping the signals of Jets defensive coaches during the season opener at Giants Stadium. When an NFL security official confiscated his video camera and videotape, the jig was up. The incident was dubbed 'Spygate.'
From 2000 to 2005, Jets head coach Eric Mangini was a Belichick assistant and possessed an insider's knowledge. The commissioner ruled that the Patriots had indeed violated league rules, fining Belichick $500,000, taking away a first-round pick and fining the team $250,000...but Belichick was not suspended. The league confiscated and destroyed all the evidence of the scandal.
On the field, the 2007 Patriots could not be stopped. The NFL played forty-four seasons (1978-2021) with a 16-game schedule. This 2007 teams was the only one to finish a perfect regular season, at 16-0. But it's not that they just won...they dominated. Belichick not only wanted to beat other teams to prove the videotaping, and the entire Spygate scandal, was meaningless and it was wrong to label him a cheater, he wanted to utterly destroy them.
New England scored a record 589 points (134 more than the next-closest team, the Dallas Cowboys), averaging more than 36 points per game. Only four times did the Patriots fail to score at least 30 points. They outscored their opponents by 315 points, an average margin of 19.7 per game. (The only other team to have a win margin over 10 was the Colts, with 11.8). Brady threw a record 50 touchdowns, and Randy Moss caught a record 23 TDs. Brady and Moss set the record in the fourth quarter of the final game of the regular season against the Giants.
The New York Giants were a good, but not great, team. They were led by Manning who, in his fourth season, tossed 23 touchdown passes - not even half of Brady's total. Four of the twenty-three came in the season finale against the Patriots. One thing the Giants had going for them: Manning, at twenty-six, was unflappable. Brady, meanwhile, was a perfectionist. The Giants knew he hated pressure up the middle and if they could show that early, they felt they could rattle him. They did have tremendous respect for him. After all, the Giants led the regular season meeting by 12 points in the third quarter - the Patriots' largest deficit of the season - though could not make it stick.
The Super Bowl road trip started with a win in Tampa Bay, 24-14. Next stop: Dallas. Swept by the No. 1 seed Cowboys during the regular season, the Giants staged an upset in the first-ever postseason meeting between the long-time rivals, winning 21-17. The 13-3 'Boys had won three more games than the 10-6 Giants during the season.
The Giants next traveled to the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field to take on the Packers and the ghost of Vince Lombardi in the NFC Championship Game. It wasn't just the tundra that was frozen that day. Everything was frozen, including (Tom) Coughlin's rozy-red face. The game-time temperature was minus 1, with a minus 23-degree windchill. It ranked as the fifth coldest game day in NFL history. But the Giants left the field feeling warm all over with an overtime win and an all-expenses paid trip to thaw out in sunny Phoenix, with a shot at the Lombardi Trophy."
Digital Sports Desk: TL's Sunday Sports Notes
November 26, 2023
Digital Sports Desk
TL's Sunday Sports Notes
Lastly, a fun read for any New York sports fan or for any fan who appreciates some of the greatest sports stories in history is “The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History (Our Generation of Memories – 1960 to Today) by Todd Ehrlich and Gary Myers.
While the book is a must read for any New Yorker born from 1959 through modern days, it is so well done, it’ll be appreciated by all.
The book begins with a forward by former New York Giants wide receiver, David Tyree, and if you remember, it was Tyree who made one of the most unexpected, difficult and impactful catches in Super Bowl history. (Super Bowl XLII (2008) when Tyree made what is commonly called, the “Helmet Catch.”
It was the last catch of Tyree’s career and it miraculously extended the game-winning drive in the Giants’ 17-14 victory over the previously undefeated New England Patriots. The moment was voted “Play of the Decade” (2000s) by NFL Films and it tips the hand on the type of memories described marvelously by Ehrlich and Myers throughout the book.
“20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports” is a great gift for your 20-to-60 something sports fan and the concept of the book is sure to spread to other cities and even college campuses as Ehrlich expands his research and writing team(s).
Without spoiling the contents of the book, the key aspect of the storytelling is the magnificent way a single moment/memory is backed-up by the steps taken by the team or individual to get to that meoment in sports history.
Additionally, there was not a moment missed – and in an unusual manner – there might not be a valid argument to top the 20 moments chosen by the authors. How rare is that in the age of sports talk radio and arguing over every single day in sports?
Notes From An Artist: Sports Author Todd Ehrlich Recalls Mike Piazza’s 9/11 Homer in New Book
September 28, 2023
Notes From An Artist
Sports Author Todd Ehrlich Recalls Mike Piazza’s 9/11 Homer in New Book
It is unarguably the most important home run in the history of New York City baseball, and perhaps the most defining moment in the sport itself.
In his new, best-selling book, The Twenty Greatest Moments in New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories from 1960 to Today, award winning television sports journalist, producer Todd Ehrlich takes us behind the scenes at Shea Stadium on September 21, 2001. With the city reeling from the September 11 attacks, the Mets – adorned with FDNY and NYPD caps, and boldly defying MLB orders in doing such - take the field to bring the city back to some semblance of normality.
In the 8th inning, with the Mets down 2-1 to their nemesis Atlanta Braves, Piazza strokes the home run that helped start the healing.
The Twenty Greatest Moments in New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories from 1960 to Today, by Todd Ehrlich with Gary Myers, is out now on Sports Publishing.
DE Today Magazine: The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History
September 15, 2023
DE Today Magazine
The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories, From 1960 to Today
Daily News: Bookends Signing Blurb & Daily News Article
September 2, 2023
Daily News
Bookends Signing Blurb & Daily News Article Bookends Signing & Daily News Back Cover
