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The Voice of CBS Sports Jim Nantz's Love Affair with the Monterey Peninsula B Y M I C H A E L C H AT F I E L D T he plan: meet at Katy's Place for breakfast, but it turned out that Katy's was closed that morning; Plan B: The Little Swiss Café. "Carmel is a great breakfast town," CBS sports commen- tator Jim Nantz says, "and I'm a big breakfast guy." This is a man whose face and voice are as familiar as family to untold millions of sports fans, yet far from shunning public places, he embraces them. No one bothers him, though it's obvious that other patrons are fully aware of who he is. He's a full- time local, and despite his many accomplishments, that is clearly one of the things of which he is most proud. "You won't find a family more enamored of the Monterey Peninsula than the Nantz family," he says. "We're not accidental tourists." Just as he says this, Nantz's wife Courtney and their two- year-old daughter Finley pop in. Finley immediately wins the room, dressed as she is in a pink tutu, having just finished dance class. With a little urging, she graces her audience with a few steps before snuggling up to dad. "It's a great feeling to know that Finley and her baby brother Jameson will grow up here," Nantz says. It's obvious that Nantz isn't just saying these words to enamor himself with the community. Between NFL football, 118 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 1 7