Celebrities love the NFL just as much as the guy who paints his face every week.
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.
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.
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.
As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.
The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.
We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.
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.
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.
Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world.
There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.
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'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball.
Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.
Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.
The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.
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.'
I'm living the dream, man.
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.
The NFL has captured the casual fan.
