Erin Andrews, driven to succeed in and out of her comfort zone
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Erin Andrews, Fox sports sideline reporter for the NFL, joins Craig on the season final of the Full 60. Craig and Erin covered the Atlanta Thrashers together back in the early 2000's and used to binge watch the OC together with Craig's wife on Thrasher off nights, so this was a bit of a reunion podcast for the two of them. Andrews discusses her start in the broadcasting industry, and how her father Steve is her inspiration in getting into the business. She also addresses her friendship with John Tortorella, and how much he means to her as he helped teach her the game of hockey, and the right questions to ask, when she covered the Lightning in Tampa Bay.
Erin looks back on when she met her husband, Stanley Cup Champion Jarret Stoll during the lockout in 2013, ahead of the Kings 2nd Cup win in 2014, and the tight bond that the players and the families still have today.
Erin promotes her Wear by Erin Andrews team apparel association with the NHL, which was announced last week. Wear by Erin Andrews was already in partnership with the NFL, NCAA and NBA, and Erin a huge hockey fan of the LA Kings and Tampa Bay Lightning is really excited to be in business with the NHL. Erin discusses her drive to always try new things, wanting to be involved in many new projects, in and out of her comfort zone, and teases new projects with Michael Strahan and comedian Kevin Hart. EA also shares with Craig, her best conversation ever, with the goat himself, Tom Brady.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custin's and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:11.4 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60, and I am thrilled to have |
| 0:25.5 | an old friend who, Aaron Andrews, who, of course, you know her as the former sideline |
| 0:32.7 | reporter of the Lightning and the studio reporter with the Atlanta Thrashers. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm not sure what happened after that. |
| 0:38.1 | I think she's gone on to have a pretty good career. It's hard to say. Erin, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I'm good. I was trying to think so I met you right before I got fired from TV. Which is really what |
| 0:53.3 | happened. I mean, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. But at the time, it was so dramatic. But I knew you right after Lightning, right? And met you right as I was trying to, you know, make it at TBS. And I was doing thrash or stuff. And it just wasn't my thing. So, yeah. You did not get fired. Did you get fired? Well, no. Actually, that's so wrong. I didn't get fired. My contract wasn't renewed. That's what I was. So my deal was up. And then I remember that that was 2014. The lightning were making their run in the playoffs. And I knew that Turner was not going to renew my deal. So I remember |
| 1:30.9 | sitting in the baseball studio. I remember texting our mutual friend Bert at the time and I just said, |
| 1:37.4 | oh God, I'm effed here. And then ESPN was actually in town to do a thrashers game. And I knew the hotel that they stayed at, |
| 1:47.8 | because everybody knew, you know, where the hockey team stayed. And I went down there because I knew |
| 1:53.9 | the broadcast crew would be having drinks. And I'm sorry, we're the broadcasting crew state, |
| 1:59.3 | not the hockey team. And so I went down there and I introduced myself to everyone and I just said, hey, I knew y'all would be here having drinks. And I just wanted to let you know, I'm not going to be renewed at Turner. And I would love to do the Stanley Cup coverage. And then I got hired on for that. And that's kind of when I was like, all right, here we go, people. |
| 2:18.9 | That's amazing. I'd forgot. So, so why didn't think it went sidewigs with the thrass? |
| 2:23.3 | Well, I was originally hired for baseball coverage. So my first job out of college was, oh, God, |
| 2:30.6 | 2000, was it 2004 with the lightning? |
| 2:36.4 | It was not, no, it was Tortoralla's first year. |
| 2:38.0 | So maybe that was 2003. |
| 2:39.5 | I think I got it. |
| 2:44.1 | I think 0-102 according to my, I don't know if that's accurate. |
| 2:45.6 | I don't know if that was it. |
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