It wasn't that long ago we said good-bye to Tom Suiter from the every day 6:22 sports segment on WRAL- TV. If you take notice no one retires from The Big Five. All those from the past can be seen during special programs long after you no longer see them daily.
Tom still has been seen every week during the school year with the Extra Effort Award and two of his last segments he was here in Rocky Mount giving the award to Forest Bell at Rocky Mount and Rebekah Beal at Northern Nash. There is one thing that Tom Suiter will be remembered for, for the rest of his life and ours too. Football Friday, for 35 years Tom has lead a team that brought every high school football team to everyone within the the cable signal of WRAL.
During my days doing play by play of Ahoskie High school football it was like the president was coming when word got out that the WRAL helicopter was coming to Ahoskie for a playoff game. It has been like that for every school that ever had a crew from Football Friday in their house. It is because of Tom Suiter Rocky Mount born.
Tom is a member of the North Carolina Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall Of Fame. The Nash-Edgecombe Twin County Hall Of Fame. He has won two Emmys and in 1990 he was voted the North Carolina Sportscaster Of The year.
Tom and I have become E-Mail buddies over the years. All of us are faced at some point in our life with the wish to retire but I know from what little bit I still do in sports it is hard to give up what is your life. Can you imagine from the time your get out of college until the day you say it is over that you work in the same place for the same people and you do such a great job That every person that has anything to do with high school football knows who you are and feel that if Tom Suiter calls your name that you made it on Football Friday.
Thank You Tom Suiter!!!! Please send me your new E-mail address.
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