Call of the wild: Correction

It was Burbank's Brian Batter who won the contest to make the live call of the horribly anticlimatic second-half kickoff at Satuday's USC-Notre Dame game from the Coliseum that went over the KSPN-AM (710) airwaves.
Got a chance to meet him at the 710 tailgate party beforehand, and he didn't appear intoxicated enough to perform as we anticipated. I, however, had one too many Bloody Mary's, and apparently thought that Brian, who had the nice, polished delivery, was named Mike Owens, the Charlton Heston impersonator from Huntington Beach who I wanted to win. In an earlier blog on this, I misidentified him.
Anyway, Brian will be on today with John Ireland and Steve Mason for their 3-7 p.m. show to talk about his experience and replay that call. And if you saw the second-halfboot -- that kinda pooch kick from the Notre Damers that sailed about 35 yards and went out of bounds -- Brian's call probably wasn't as memorable as the Anthony Davis return in '74 that launched a legend.

Meanwhile, a replay of the Daily News High School Sports Live show that we did Friday night (7-10 p.m.) from the Calabasas studios will be up soon (they tell us) at NowInLA.com. Gerry Gittleson and I had a blast doing it -- especially taking calls from students in the stands at some of the best high school football playoff games around the area. Thanks again for Channel 4's Fred Roggin for coming on to help set the table; to Chris "Geeter" McGee, the FSN high school play-by-play man for his update while he was covering the Notre Dame-Long Beach Poly game, and to John Hefner, the producer at Vootage. com who was covering the Mission Viejo-Santa Margarita contest.