Episode 150: Mike Pereira NFL On Fox

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today's episode features Mike Pereira from the NFL On Fox. We talked about the bad no call in the Super Bowl that resulted in a touchdown for the Bengals when Jalen Ramsey's face mask was clearly grabbed. Mike also discussed working with his colleagues Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Aikman left Fox to go to ESPN and Mike was in the booth with those guys a lot including the Super Bowl. I asked Mike about being on camera with over 100 million people watching. We had a great laugh on that one! The main topic of conversation though is officiating on the youth level and it was very interesting to hear Mike's reasons for officials quitting after one or two years. Mike started a foundation called Battlefields to Ballfields and he has done a great job giving some of our veterans a second career. Mike gave great insights on what is needed to have sports officials truly want to stick around! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, Red Napier! So great to have you here on if you don't like that very excited for my guest today. He is a household name among
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1:00.7	My guest is a household name among football fans in America, former vice president of
1:06.6	officiating for the National Football League, a former NFL official, you see him on the NFL on Fox, the rules analyst. It is an
1:15.4	absolute pleasure to welcome to the podcast Mike Pereira. Mike, how are you?
1:19.8	Grant, I am, I'm great, I'm great, I'm busy, which is great.
1:25.0	You know, I love football and I'm still heavily involved, which is great.
1:28.5	So I'm doing really well.
1:30.5	You know, I'm looking at these big contracts that NFL analysts are getting and you know what your title is an NFL analyst
1:36.2	You're a NFL rules analyst so Mike I mean what the hell I think you should be next? I said I would go to ESPM for half of what Troy is going to make.
1:45.0	I'd be happy to do it.
1:47.0	Give me $45 million over five years and I'll be happy to go.
1:51.0	I don't know the way it sounded, I may be the only one left at Fox. I'm working on you know my
1:58.2	knowledge of Cover 2 and all this kind of stuff and wheel routes so you may need a color analyst I might have to move
2:04.9	from rules to a color analyst in all seriousness though you spent a lot of time in the
2:10.0	booth with Joe and Troy so regardless of what happens and who are going to be
2:14.6	the new guys that's that's a lot different for you I know you built up quite a
2:17.6	friendship with those guys it's really gonna be hard for me you I, you know, when you officiate it's very interesting.
2:26.1	When you officiate your, you're basically anti those commentators because they haven't
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