Roastin’ Rich Funke
October 27th, 2009 by MayorI had the extreme honor to be invited to be on the dais for the 52nd Fall Guy Show Charity Roast Dinner honoring Rich Funke from News 10NBC Mon. night at the Rochester Plaza Hotel. This is an annual tradition sponsored by the Saints and Sinners Club, a fund raiser for the Dream Factory of Roch. that fulfills dreams for kids ages 3 through 18 who have been diagnosed with critical or chronic illnesses. It really was an honor for me to join the head table as we hurled insults towards the legendary sportscaster/newsman. Rich is a very good sport who endured a few hours of hell with verbal warfare lobbed by Don Alhart and Doug Emblidge of Channel 13, Brother Wease, Steve Hausmann from WBEE, Dan Mason from the Red Wings GM office, Pat McGonigle from News10 and myself. It was a great night of laughs, all for the tremendous work done by the Dream Factory. Rich and his wife Pat ooooooze class and are a well deserving couple to be honored for all they do for our area. I thank everybody from Saints and Sinners for letting me be part of it, Rich for inviting me, and all in the audience who had to put up with me on the mic. God bless Rich for his charity work and God bless our troops.