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'pause' button when you cover four
teams that are always contending for
championships."
He gave an example of what his day
can be like.
"I'm on the air at 4 p.m., and again at
5," he said. "Then I'll be on at 6 and 7.
Then the Bruins play at 7:30, and I'll be
on again for the 11 o'clock news.
"So what I'm doing is hitting the
'pause' button," he said, "so I can do
some things I wouldn't have time to do
otherwise."
Lynch graduated from Swampscott
High in 1971, and three years later —
while at Harvard University — he began
broadcasting in 1974 for the old WLYN
in Lynn as a color commentator for high
school games.
He's never lost the connection
has to his roots. When he arrived at
Channel 5, he began the weekly "High
Five" segments that feature high school
athletes, and his annual Thanksgiving
night show where he provides extensive
coverage of all the day's football games
is can't-miss TV. He still plans on doing
both in his new capacity at the station.
Lynch was the starting quarterback
for the Big Blue in 1970 after being Peter
Beatrice's understudy the previous season.
One thing about
him was that he
understood the
moment.
— Frank DeFelice
Mike Lynch
interviewing
Tom Brady and
Bill Russell.
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