 From the time of the initial phone call asking him to anchor the race, until "show time," he has only 14 hours to fly out of Texas (leaving a Jimi Hendrix tour) and prepare for his commentator debut.He enlists the aide of then-famous Las Vegas singer and entertainer, Wayne Newton, to help with three of the seven hours Pat would be on the air doing play-by-play commentary and keeping viewers interested and entertained.That night he goes home and, for the "first time in [his] career" vomits from the "nervous exhaustion" (p. 337).