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" We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore. "
Rich Eisen
Sports
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" Wednesday is always a ramp-up day during Super Bowl week. This is the day that players who didn't make the big game always appear or arrive in the Super Bowl city to hawk their wares or promote a sponsor, so that's why NFL Network always holds the bulk of their coverage from Radio Row at the Super Bowl Media Center. "
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" I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course. "
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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 want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art. "
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" I don't think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton's red zone option. "
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" Everybody is owned by somebody. "
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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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" I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don't know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do. "
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Trying
Sports
" 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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" 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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" I'm living the dream, man. "
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Man
Living
" 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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Pictures
" It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes. "
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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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Trial
Culture
" The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples' buttons. It's played once a week, so every game is important. "
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" I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation. "
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" Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day. "
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" A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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Me
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