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NOT ON SILENT — Most people have had that sinking feeling when their phone rings at an inopportune moment.
Work meetings, movies, interviews — all bad times for the ringtone to start blasting. But it's part of life; it happens. And some scenarios are funnier than others.
For example, what happened to a reporter in Nebraska this week during a press conference with Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule.
As Rhule was getting asked a question at his weekly presser, the familiar tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" started blasting from a reporter's phone.
My apologies for interrupting Matt Rhule's news conference today when my phone went off and played...... Rudolph.... lasted only 10 seconds but felt like 10 years -- I do love me some Burl Ives though pic.twitter.com/1rpjEwSbN8
— Andy Kendeigh (@AKendeighKETV) November 29, 2023
A small smirk appeared on Rhule's face as the song kept going and going and going.
Rhule even asked the TV cameras to zoom in on the flustered reporter, KETV's Andy Kendeigh. Sadly, they did not oblige.
"I am so sorry," Kendeigh is heard saying as laughter grows in the room. "I can't stop it!"
Kendiegh finally got it to turn off — cutting off the line "Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" — and apologized again to Rhule for the interruption.
To which the Nebraska coach replied, "Why? That's the best thing to happen to me all day."
