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The Rich Eisen Show

Cris Collinsworth: I Was Going To Be A Lawyer

The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN

Sports

4.31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Rich sits down with former NFL wide-receiver and the color analyst for NBC's Sunday Night Football, Cris Collinsworth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's like, it's a little like politics. You just have to try and do the best you can.

0:05.5

Say what you know, offer an opinion, say it's an opinion, and see how it goes.

0:12.0

But I mean, we're in a really powerful position. I'm in front of, now they may be the same people,

0:19.4

but probably 40 to 50 million people a week. The president of the United States is in

0:25.6

front of 50 million people a week. You know, it's like, it may be for a second or 30 seconds.

0:30.8

And believe me, they're always a lot smarter than I am too. But it's like, you build a relationship

0:37.6

and people know that you're going to try and give them something honest and something that's

0:43.3

right without crossing lines or embarrassing people on purpose. But you know, we work for whoever

0:49.4

it is that's watching, not not the team, not the player, not the quarterback, not the coach.

1:02.0

Welcome to the latest episode of Just Getting Started. We've had an incredible run here

1:07.5

with this season on the voices of the NFL starts with Al Michaels and it should only be fitting

1:14.0

that it finishes right here with my friend from NBC and also from the NFL 100 all-time team show

1:22.1

Chris Collinsworth here on Just Getting Started. How are you, Chris?

1:25.9

I'm good. God, has that show seemed like it was a million years ago or what?

1:29.6

Well, the crazy thing is is that, you know, we're recording this show right now just a week after

1:36.8

you and Al did the Sunday Night Game of Brady's Return to New England. And we saw Brady

1:47.4

and Bill together in what wound up being the spring right before their final

1:54.0

season together. And we were all like looking for any symbol or sign or smoke signal of what was

2:00.7

going on because Tom wasn't showing up for his OTAs and, you know, and I just was going back

2:07.2

and forth with maybe they were uncomfortable because it was the first segment we shot of the entire

2:11.5

six episode series and Bill hadn't done TV before but that was an interesting run to say the least.

2:19.0

Chris for that. Yeah, you know, and the truth is always somewhere in between, right?

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