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Create Your Shot: Melissa Jacobs "The Football Girl"

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9939 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Tyler and Smallz welcome in Melissa Jacobs from TheFootballGirl to talk about her career in sports media. Melissa talked to the guys about working in radio, working at ESPN, being at the forefront of the fantasy football explosion and then starting her very own website, thefootballgirl.com. Coach speak this week includes Mark Cuban and Bill O'Brien and the city review is Washington DC. Melissa is on Twitter, @thefootballgirl. 0:30 Tyler and Smallz Intro 7:43 Welcome Melissa Jacobs 9:25 The story behind The Football Girl and Melissa's passion for football 16:35 Breaking into a male dominated industry, ambitions and fears moving forward 24:00 Whole Foods vs. Trader Joes 25:30 Melissa on Fantasy Football and Bill Simmons 37:50 Melissa's networking strategies and balancing work and her family 47:14 Coach Speak — Mark Cuban, Bill O'Brien 57:12 City Review — Washington, DC 1:02:59 Ten Touches

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is part of the underdog sports

0:07.9

podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.

0:15.4

Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come. As always, I am Tyler Lorry joined by my co-host, Chris Smalls, Angelo, and essentially Smalls,

0:37.1

we decided that we are not happy with how the NCAA tournaments going.

0:40.7

So we're switching right back into football season and our guest this week is

0:44.3

Melissa Jacobs from the football girl.com she is at the football girl on Twitter

0:49.3

former NFL editor at Sports Illustrated, Talent,

0:53.0

Cultivator at ESPN, and many, many other things.

0:56.4

And she was very fun to talk to.

0:59.8

Very, very fun.

1:01.4

Yeah, she's a, she's know she was fired up and you could tell that's just how she was and I think that's kind of how she made her way and created her own path or created her shot so to say but she she's just she's like I'm a go get her

1:21.2

she's ambitious and I think that was really cool to hear from

1:24.7

especially from two guys who you know started a podcast she was like she did all these

1:30.0

awesome things working for ESPAN as a producer and then she just was like I want to make this

1:34.6

website I want to make a podcast I want to get fancy football to women and I want to make

1:40.9

it acceptable and that's a big challenge and she took it head on and I thought that was really cool and it was awesome I think people understand this like when you talk to somebody you you can feel their passion, and that's what I felt, and it kind of gave me, ignited me a little bit.

1:58.0

And I don't know, how did you think it what?

2:01.0

Yeah, I agree with that. There are times, and I said this in the interview, where I always appreciate people who take

2:06.6

shots.

2:07.6

Like, I think we talked about doing this podcast for two years before I was like, you know,

2:12.0

fuck it, I'm going to go buy Mike and and we're gonna do this you know what I mean and she was like I was really

2:16.6

ambitious I wanted to start a website and her first podcast guest in 2009

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