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The Rogers Family Eliminated From The Amazing Race
The second episode of The Amazing Race Family Edition kicks off with the teams racing to York, Pennsylvania to find a clue at the top of a house shaped like a shoe.  The clue directs the teams to go to the reflecting pool at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  On the way to Washington, the Rogers family makes a critical mistake and misses a crucial turn-off.  Denny Rogers, the father on the team, points the finger at the driver, who is his son Brock Rogers.  Denny says “We said 83 South to the driver, and we passed up the exit.”

Even though the clue clearly directs the teams to the U.S. Capitol, several of the teams go to the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial instead.  Most of the teams quickly realize their mistake, except for the Gaghan family which searches around for two hours.  In fact, the Gaghan family might still be searching if the Rogers family didn’t finally show up and Denny Rogers didn’t point out to them that they should be at the reflecting pool at the U.S. Capitol. 

A clue at the reflecting pool directs the teams to take a briefcase from a black limousine and go to the Tidal Basin.  At the Tidal Basin, the teams encounter a road block where they have to exchange their briefcase for a briefcase being carried by a spy walking around the Tidal Basin.  The complication is that there are fifty people walking around the Tidal Basin with a briefcase and only ten of them are spies.  The amazing thing about this challenge is that mysterious people exchanging black briefcases in the nation’s capital didn’t set off a city wide panic.

After making the briefcase exchange, the teams race to Middleburg, Virginia.  In Middleburg, they encounter a Civil War battlefield recreation where they have to choose between the “Heat of Battle” or the “Heat of the Night.”  In “Heat of Battle,” the teams have to remove five injured soldiers from the battlefield.  In “Heat of the Night,” the teams have to fill up twenty lanterns with fuel and light them.

The Weaver family is the first family to reach the pit stop, and they win a family trip.  After the Weaver family, the order of finish is Linz family, Godlewski family, Schroeder family, Aiello family, Bransen family, Gaghan family, Paolo family, and Rogers family.  As the last team to reach the pit stop, the Rogers family is eliminated.  Denny Rogers steps up and takes the blame for the loss and give the moral of this week’s episode as “You can’t get to where you need to go in this life casting stones and blaming other people for your misfortunes.”
http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2005/10/the_rogers_fami.html

puddin:
 Family Beyond The 'Race'

NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2005



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"After the Civil War battle, they took Brittney and Brock to be interviewed, and they took me off in an ambulance."

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Renee Rogers
 
 
(CBS) The second leg of "The Amazing Race: Family Edition" started in Lancaster, Pa., and ended up on a Civil War battlefield in northern Virginia.

In the end, the Rogers family from Shreveport, La. — Denny, 46, his wife Renee, 42, and their two children, Brittney, 22 and Brock, 19 — came up short.

They say they lost because Renee fell down at the start of the race.

"I had an injury that really wasn't kind of shown and getting sick," she tells The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.

"When we got to Washington — we were there actually with four other teams — that's when we realized, Renee wasn't able to keep up," Denny says. "We turned around and looked and it wasn't even the same person traveling with us."

Her children thought she was "a little bit of a hypochondriac." But it turns out she had a concussion and was not 100 percent.

"Actually, after the Civil War battle, they took Brittney and Brock to be interviewed, and they took me off in an ambulance," Renee says. She was sick "the entire time. I wouldn't hold down food."

But that was not the only thing that kept the Rogers from being in the lead. They also got lost in Pennsylvania.

"They left that up to me," Denny says. "They decided dad needs to come read the map. So they put me in a position that I made the wrong call and we went east instead of west."

"I've done great map reading the whole time," Brock says. "In the beginning, before we started, we gave each other duties. He was going to be the map reader. I was going to drive to begin with. So it finally happened and everything went wrong."

Renee adds, "It was really strange because the first night after the pit stop, I had told Denny, you know, I'm really realizing now that Brock is really great at reading the map. Then it was just too late. It was just too late."

Another bad call they made was helping other teams find their clues at the mall in Washington.

"They were in there for two hours," Renee says. Now that they are out, they all agree with Denny. It was a "horrible decision."

But one thing they don't regret is meeting the Schroeder family from New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina flooded their house, the Rogers invited the Schroeders to stay with them in Shreveport.

"They stayed with us and, actually, we speak every day," Renee says. "Their house is down to the studs. They have nothing left. They knocked it down. And basically they have nothing. They have their race bags they came to our home with and the clothes on their backs."

Denny says other teams have used their home as a mailing point, sending donations to the Schroeders. "The families have been tremendous," he says.

"It's a family beyond the race," Renee says.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/05/earlyshow/series/amazingrace/main915641.shtml

puddin:
'AmazingRace' endstoo soon
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
ERIN ALBERTY
THE SAGINAW NEWS
MIDLAND -- It took Brock Rogers a couple of months to recover after filming CBS's "The Amazing Race: Family Edition" this summer.

But the reservoirs of agony spilled over again Tuesday as the Northwood University freshman watched Team Rogers' defeat on national television.

"I thought I was over it until just now," Rogers said. "Then I was like, 'You owe me a million!' "
Rogers, along with his parents and sister, bowed out of the $1 million competitive reality show in the second episode after the family took a wrong turn -- over Rogers' objections -- during the Washington, D.C., leg of the race around the world.

There was no bouncing back. The seven other families kept their leads through staged battlefield competitions at a Civil War re-enactment in Virginia, eliminating Rogers' family from the race.

"I'm sitting here watching TV, and some of these people are so out of shape and so slow, and I'm saying, 'How the heck can they beat us? Everyone in our family can run,' " the Shreveport native marveled in a stream-of-conscious reflection minutes after the show.

But Rogers' bewilderment and frustration stop with good-natured reminiscence. He punctuates memories like, "I don't think I talked to my parents for three days afterward," with a pause, a chuckle and, "It was so awesome."

The race, that is -- not the tension, which was palpable after the family's loss, Rogers recalled. He's just glad his big meltdown didn't make it on the air.

"All up and down the sidewalk at Washington, D.C., I was punching signs -- I even knocked a gate down," he said. "Honestly, it was bad. They probably didn't show it because it would have been so embarrassing for me. I'm really glad, because I would have been on Dr. Phil or something."

The sheepishness faded a little as he remembered how he felt realizing how far behind his team had fallen.

"While everyone else went through the clues, we were sitting there like ducks," he said, getting steamed again and then professing his hopes to make it on another reality show. MTV's "The Real World" looks like a nice change of pace after the hyper competition of "The Amazing Race," he said.

First he has college to attend to, and that means dealing with his new campus celebrity -- and the fact that his peers watched him lose a contest on TV.

He purposely kept his viewing party small on Tuesday.

http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-16/112852200088760.xml&coll=9

puddin:
“We Definitely Worked Together as a Team” – An Interview with The Amazing Race 8’s Rogers Family
by Jenn Brasler -- 10/06/2005

 
Did the Rogerses plan to stick to an alliance with the Schroeders? Did anyone other than Denny prove to possess leadership skills? What special car feature did the family attempt to use to get ahead? Find out in our interview with the Rogers family.
Reality News Online: Hi, Denny, Renee, Brock, and Brittney! I’m sorry that you got eliminated so soon. You looked like you were strong contenders. How did you decide to apply for The Amazing Race?

The Rogerses: It was Brittney’s idea and everyone went along with it. The hardest to convince was Dad.

 RNO: What strengths did you believe you brought with you to the race?

The Rogerses: We thought we brought a competitive spirit to the race. We thought we had a big advantage with the children on the other teams. Denny has a great “odd” sense of direction and we thought that would be to our advantage.

RNO: What did you think your weaknesses might be?

The Rogerses: We thought not speaking a foreign language would hurt us. Brittney was studying up on her Spanish. Brock is more laid back than the others and so we thought that not being as talkative might hurt.

RNO: Brock, we know that you weren’t thrilled about your dad being in charge. How do you think you did with him as the leader?

Brock: I just wished that they would have listened to my ideas more. There were some things that they didn’t show that portrayed my good ideas.

RNO: Did anyone else possess any strong leadership skills, or did everyone let Denny take that role?

The Rogerses: Everybody took leadership roles as different parts of the race. We relied on Renee and Brittney for the clues and catching anything in the clues that would help interpret things. We relied on each other a lot. For example, crossing the Delaware was extremely difficult and we definitely worked together as a team.

RNO: How long did it take you to realize that you were at the wrong reflecting pool? Was the mistake a result of not reading the clue correctly, or something else?

Brittney: We read the clue and I had the map and on that particular map, there only said there was one reflecting pool. Thanks to the Gaghan family, who said they had been there two hours, we realized that there is probably another one [reflecting pool], so we began searching for it.

RNO: We saw you all give the Gaghans a little help with finding the right reflecting pool. Do you still regret doing that? Do you think that things might have turned out differently if you hadn’t said anything to them?

The Rogerses: Yes, we regret it, and yes, we wouldn’t have told them. Their car was also right there and ours was a lot further away.

RNO: Did you see yourselves having a long-term alliance with the Schroeders?

The Rogerses: We had discussed that we were going to get the two teams from Louisiana to the final three, and then once there, we would all be on our own.

RNO: Do you wish that you had chosen the other detour task?

The Rogerses: Either way we were going to be eliminated because we were so far behind. We knew that we were last because we counted the cars. We were just hoping that it was a non-elimination round and we would try to make up for it on the next leg.

RNO: If you could have done anything different on the race, what would it be?

The Rogerses: We would have convinced OnStar to give us directions. We tried to use it in our vehicle but it didn’t work. It claimed that “your subscription does not allow us to give you clues!”

RNO: Thank you for the interview! The best of luck to all of you in the future.

Jenn Brasler is the Assistant Editor of Reality News Online and an aspiring writer from Falls Church, VA. You can e-mail her at luckyjenn@hotmail.com. She could really use OnStar in her car, too.

http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article5766.art&page=1

Chateau d If:

--- Quote ---RNO: If you could have done anything different on the race, what would it be?

The Rogerses: We would have convinced OnStar to give us directions. We tried to use it in our vehicle but it didn’t work. It claimed that “your subscription does not allow us to give you clues!”
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That CBS, they think of everything.

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