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" I don't think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton's red zone option. "
Rich Eisen
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" Nothing trumps good conversation. "
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" By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996. "
Rich Eisen
Become
Time
Show
" I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are. "
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" There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day. "
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Know
Work
" I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too. "
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Fans
Game
Watching
" Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room. "
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Doing
Story
Spring
" There's no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything. "
Rich Eisen
Finding
Children
Better
" So many people in my business go through W.W.C.D? What Would Costas Do? There are many things that I do on the air that make me think, 'That's not filled with much gravitas right there.' That's part of my style. "
Rich Eisen
Business
Me
People
" I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football. "
Rich Eisen
Want
People
Football
" The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over. "
Rich Eisen
Gender
Tennis
Rights
" Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen. "
Rich Eisen
Reality
Sports
True
" I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation. "
Rich Eisen
Conversation
Think
Questions
" Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true. "
Rich Eisen
Chance
Football
Sports
" I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in. "
Rich Eisen
Early
Life
My Life
" We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore. "
Rich Eisen
Sports
Fall
Grace
" I have a competitive streak. "
Rich Eisen
Competitive
Streak
" I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball. "
Rich Eisen
Me
Call
Ball
" When I was at ESPN, I would say in April, 'We should be doing something on the NFL,' and they laughed at me. "
Rich Eisen
Doing
Something
Say
" I might have been one of the first 'SportsCenter' anchors that complained that I wrote this great lead-in setting up a highlight, and that as I'm doing it, on camera, the final score is scrolling underneath my head. "
Rich Eisen
Up
Head
Camera
" There are hundreds of millions of people on dating apps every day, but apparently, no such apps cater solely to sports fans. "
Rich Eisen
Sports
Every Day
Dating
" Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day. "
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Day
Internet
Management
" Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away. "
Rich Eisen
Taste
Like
Red
" In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening. "
Rich Eisen
Listening
Me
Sports
" We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it's a long process, and there can be technical glitches that we don't profess to ignore. During our late coverage of the Draft, we sometimes get slap-happy and distort the heads of our analysts. "
Rich Eisen
Have Fun
Process
Long
" Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day. "
Rich Eisen
Humor
Late-Night
Time
" When I'm at the game, I try to put the fans into my shoes. I'm snapping pictures right and left. "
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Fans
Game
Pictures
" Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world. "
Rich Eisen
Someone
Think
World
" I talk about the NFL Draft on a daily basis because this is the sport I cover - this is the show I do - and I talk about everything that's taking place every single day. "
Rich Eisen
NFL
Place
Day
" The NFL has captured the casual fan. "
Rich Eisen
Fan
Casual
Captured