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" In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job. "
Rich Eisen
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" The Tuesday before the Super Bowl is all about the media. Well, to be honest, every day at the Super Bowl is about the media, but Tuesday of Super Bowl week is specifically called Media Day. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I'm a fine wine: I just get better with age. Actually, I'm like the Benjamin Button of the Combine. The older I get, the younger I look and feel. "
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" 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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" Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away. "
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" 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. "
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" I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course. "
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" People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out. "
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Long Time
Find
Long
" I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation. "
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Think
Questions
" I have a competitive streak. "
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Competitive
Streak
" I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting. "
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Angry
Talk
Guests
" I always thought that first jump from a small market should be as big as possible. But never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be ESPN. "
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Thought
Think
Small
" The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie. "
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You
Sports
Culture
" What better way to have somebody promote their movie, their show, or their album than to come on in a relaxed, easy environment and show their fans that they are just like them? "
Rich Eisen
Way
Better
Easy
" 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
" To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.' "
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Dream
Football
Thought
" The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so. "
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You
Leader
Long
" There are hundreds of millions of people on dating apps every day, but apparently, no such apps cater solely to sports fans. "
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Sports
Every Day
Dating
" Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies. "
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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. "
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Have Fun
Process
Long
" It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes. "
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Couch
Job
Shoes
" Everybody has a corporate structure. "
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Everybody
Structure
" I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball. "
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Ball
" 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. "
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Chance
Football
Sports
" 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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" The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones. "
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" 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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