Briggs: How some nearly got ‘Wally Pipped’ in the WDAY-TV newsroom

Briggs: How some nearly got ‘Wally Pipped’ in the WDAY-TV newsroom

Have you ever been Wally Pipped? Not sure how to answer that? I wasn’t either — until about 30 years ago, when I worked at WDAY-TV alongside a delightful guy named Brian Walz. He was one of those people who made friends everywhere he went, including as he strolled through the newsroom on any given night to pick up scripts or just to say hi. It was Brian who introduced me to the name Wally Pipp — or more accurately, what it meant to be Wally Pipp…