FIrst Look: ESPN's Booger McFarland on the most money he won during a plane flight card game
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Here's a short clip from our interview with Booger McFarland, the ESPN college football and NFL studio analyst. In this preview clip of the full interview on Monday, as part of a larger answer on sports gambling, McFarland discusses card games played on flights when he was in the NFL. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Media podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm your host, Richard Dight, my producer Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:11.4 | This is a first look where we give you a preview of an upcoming interview. |
| 0:15.3 | Our guest is Bougar McFarland, the ESPN and ABC NFL and college football analyst. |
| 0:24.1 | You can hear the entire interview on Monday, and it's a good one. |
| 0:27.6 | We cover a lot of stuff, including why Booger has maintained a really nice career and success at ESPN now for more than a decade. |
| 0:38.5 | That's a long career in broadcasting and he continues to get assignments. But in this preview clip, Berger, |
| 0:46.1 | as part of a longer conversation on sports gambling, especially with the news that's happened in the NBA, |
| 0:52.4 | I asked him about playing cards on some of the flights he took when he was an NFL player. |
| 1:01.7 | So he offers a story about one of the card games that was played and the biggest pot that he ever won. |
| 1:08.8 | So first look with Booger McFarland. |
| 1:14.8 | When you were playing, I would assume, |
| 1:16.9 | plane flights and stuff, a lot of card games and stuff like that. |
| 1:19.8 | That seems to be... |
| 1:20.5 | Oh, no, and these aren't just card games, |
| 1:23.5 | but we're talking five or ten bucks. |
| 1:25.0 | These are card games where there were a couple of a couple of times. |
| 1:29.2 | There was $15, $20, $30,000 cash on a tray table. |
| 1:34.1 | And, you know, we're not playing complicated games. |
| 1:38.1 | Like the favorite game of most planes flights is called In Between. |
| 1:42.5 | And it's really simple. |
| 1:43.9 | You get four decks of cars. And it sounds |
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