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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? "

Rich Eisen

Way

Better

Easy

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" 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. "

" It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn't give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn't have a future in the business. "

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Time

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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. "

" I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation. "

" The NFL has captured the casual fan. "

" 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. "

" I have a competitive streak. "

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Competitive

Streak

" I'm living the dream, man. "

" Nothing trumps good conversation. "

" 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. "

" We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore. "

" 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.' "

" The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom Brady. He could be the guy who turns around the fortune of the franchise. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody is owned by somebody. "

" Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day. "

" I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball. "

Rich Eisen

Call

Ball

" 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. "

" Everybody has a corporate structure. "

" Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies. "

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Music

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. "

" 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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Kind

Lost

" I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too. "

" 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. "