(Seguin) — A popular KSAT-12 television anchor returned to Seguin last week to reminisce about his days working here in Seguin.
Greg Simmons has been a fixture on San Antonio television for nearly 40 years now, but he started his career as a teenager, working part-time at KWED radio.
Simmons he has fond memories working here at the station, and covering sports in this community. He says he was excited to be back in town, and he was especially excited to be able to stop by and see the new and improved Matador Stadium.
“I did most of my games in that stadium and not just for Seguin but also for then, TLU and it just brings back a lot of memories. I don’t get the chance to go back to many stadiums that I’ve worked in — maybe a couple in San Antonio that have just completely changed just like this one has now. But for me, this was home in the press box and it’s small and it’s tiny and as crammed as we were in there to do games, it was fun because I got to call out names like Russell Erxleben, David Brothers, Tommy Kramer at the time was playing his senior year in ’72 — I obviously grew up in this area as well so for me, this is a second home,” said Simmons.
Simmons says he still loves what he’s doing, but he admits that 2020 has been a challenging year. He credits his producers for helping to come up with meaning content when sports came to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. He says even after sports started to come back, they still had to do things a little bit differently.
“It’s unlike any year. It even comes down to how we do graphics. You know you think about this, you do KSAT 12’s Top 12 — it’s how we rank high school teams. Well, what do you do if 1A to 4A starts first and now the other guys don’t start for four or five weeks down the road. So, we have to do what the paper does. We have to start a Sub-5A poll. I guess we are going to keep doing it because the kids seem to like it. I get more reaction off the Sub-5A poll than I ever do on the big one, the 5A and 6A. I think part of that is because they are used to it and the others kids didn’t get that chance so now, they are being recognized more and I think they enjoy it. Everywhere we go, people show up and say thanks for doing it,” said Simmons.
Simmons during Thursday’s meeting of the Seguin Noon Lions Club.