Alabama Crimson Tide radio announcer Eli Gold tests positive for COVID-19
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Updated: 7:28 AM CST Dec 16, 2020
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Updated: 7:28 AM CST Dec 16, 2020
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course. Coach Saban is on board. Coach. How are you, sir? Doing great, I guess. More importantly, how you doing, Eli? I'm hanging in there. I was, you know, we were gonna We were talking with the boss, and I weigh decided to be straight up like you were the reason I'm obviously not really at Bryant Denny Stadium. That's a a superimposed a background. But I tested positive for Cove. It, uh, a Z did my wife regretfully, she got that word today. So we're kind of going over, you know, doing things as best we can do in the show from my home in in this end of things. And I won't be with you on Saturday. I will. Actually, you and I'll be together. We'll talk and do our our pregame show and so on. But I will not be with the team. And Fayetteville as much as I hate toe end the streak of 409 games in succession behind the microphone. But I thank you for asking you, as you know, it's it's no fun sitting around watching, is it? No, it really isn't. But I think that this is a great opportunity for in one of my press conferences this week, I really made people aware of the fact that the Red Cross had contacted me to, um say how important it is. And I know you've got the plasma treatment. I got the plasma treatment, and I know how much it helped me on. The problem is, is it would help everyone if we had a supply of the plasma. So more and more people who have had this and have a immunities to it, I need to step up and call the Red Cross and, you know, try to help, um, you know some other people. Hell, I think it cuts down hospitalizations to a large degree, and, uh, certainly the severity of the illness. So, um, I guess I would plead with everybody again to, um maybe think about doing that. I I guess if you have it like I have, it takes 90 days before I could do it. But as soon as I get the opportunity to do it, I will do it. Hopefully that'll help somebody out there as well