Erin Andrews had a rare on-air scramble during the Packers’ visit to Detroit, and she’s now explained exactly why the whole thing got messy.
On her Calm Down podcast with co-host Charissa Thompson, the Fox sideline reporter said the long ramp at Ford Field changed the timing of her interview with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and left her rushing to get everything she needed.
Andrews said she was trying to piece together her notes in real time as the interview window opened up. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to shore up my notes.’
I’m putting it all together,” Andrews said to herself hurriedly during the moment. “And I’m like, ‘Wait, sh*t.
What did he say about going for it?’ Because I never want to quote a coach and get it wrong.”
She added that she has made a habit of recording her conversations with head coaches so she can keep the details exact. “I’ve started to do it the last couple of years just because there may be something they say, and I want to get it exactly right,” Andrews answered. “I never want to misquote.”
Even after that rush, Andrews still had to deal with another problem once she headed back toward her booth. She said she had to sprint to find injury information before going on camera, only to realize she was already getting pulled into the broadcast.
“So, I run. I literally am standing in front of the camera, and my producer goes, ‘Erin, we’re gonna come to you first.’
Okay great. And then I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t have the injuries.’
I run to find PR, and then Kevin and Tom are on-air; I’m not near the camera.”
By then, she said, the physical strain had caught up with her. “I’m fully f*cking out of breath, which is inappropriate,” Andrews said.
“Get it together, sister. In through the nose, out through the mouth…it was so stupid.
And it’s all because the ramp was so long.”
She didn’t hold back on how it felt in the moment, either. “And then I’m like, ‘Oh my God, how many people are watching, and I just sh*t down my leg. I’m so much better than that.”
Andrews said that when she looked back at the actual report, nothing looked unusual on the air. In the end, the segment came off fine - even if the lead-up to it was anything but smooth.
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