Sheri Trapp. If you have taken in a game at Taylor Field(sorry it's always going to be named that to me, but thanks for the cash Mosaic) in the last couple of years you know who she is. She is the Maxtron Girl to most of you. And every time something happens on the Maxtron that isn't good she takes the blame. The camera switches to her and there is dead air it's her fault. The trivia question is wrong, her fault again. The fan she is giving a prize to is lame, blame Sheri. The promo's that she has to introduce are ridiculous, Sheri again. The screen is screwed up, Sheri's fault. They go to her for a giveaway right before a play starts, well you figured it out, her fault again.

I really am getting tired of the Sheri bashers. She is a great lady who works damn hard for the Riders. Along with her Maxtron duties she is involved in the Communications and Marketing departments of the Riders. If there is an event that the team is involved with take a look around and you will see Sheri there. And you can be sure that before she showed up at that event she had already put a lot of hours in that day. But because she is the face on the Maxtron everybody assumes that's all she does.

Has it occured to anybody that what she reads on the Maxtron during a game comes from somebody else? It does. The producer, Bill Wright if I'm not mistaken, gives her the instructions and it's her JOB to follow them. What happens at your job if the boss tells you to do something? You do it or you don't have that job. Same thing for Sheri but she does part of her job LIVE in front of 25,000 people. And anytime you are doing a LIVE broadcast things will go wrong. But even after the disastrous technical problems during the last game Sheri was on the screen smiling. She did her job knowing that some people would be blaming her for things that are out of her control. Could you do that in front of a live crowd and still smile? She did. And that shows how much professionalism and guts that she has.

So what I'm saying is that if you want to complain about how the Maxtron show is running during a game then at least complain about the right people. Sheri is the face and voice of the Maxtron but she has very little control over what happens once a game starts. Has she made some mistakes? You bet.(Most Offensive Lineman, that was hilarious) But overall she does a very good job and doesn't deserve the crap that people say about her.

As always I don't know if I made any sense writing this but I had to put these thoughts somewhere. Thanks for reading.