Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this podcast, but this podcast doesn't mean anyone else, because this is a good guest. Adam Amin is an NFL play-by-prey-b broadcaster for Fox Sports and MLB play-by-play broadcaster for Fox Sports. And if you are in the great city, Chicago, Illinois, or I guess anywhere, like within the Midwest, you know he is the TV voice of the Chicago Bulls, and he returns to the sports media podcast. Welcome back, Adam. Glad to be here. Glad to see Patrick. Glad to see you, Richard. I appreciate. Always a good shout out for Patrick, who makes this podcast happen. All right. I want to start with the NFL. I'm kind of fascinated by this. Why? For what?

For what, Richard? Cheap, cheap downloads, Adam is to like the honest answer. So you just had your, just so

people sort of understand this. Fox holds its NFL seminar for all its on-air talent in like early August.

Adam, is that like roughly the case?

Yeah, late July, early August.

Okay.

So here's where I want to start.

I know you have to know some of your assignments, but like if you, in your position as an on-air

broadcaster, so it's you and your partner Mark Sanchez and your partner Christina Pink

and Brady's there and Greg

Olson, everybody else. Take listeners inside. Like, what happens at a Fox NFL seminar?

I think it honestly is like most corporate events. Like if you work in a corporate job and you

had your corporate retreat, it's honestly a lot like that. Now, granted, they're in Los Angeles. They're nice enough to, you know, take us or, you know, put us up at like a resort. It's got to be big enough to hold a lot of people because even though we're not as large as, you know, like I'm sure ESPN, I've been to the ESPN seminar for

many years when it was college football. It's a lot more people just because there's a lot more crews. This is a little bit more self-contained. It's a few hundred people. And it's nice to go through, you know, your crew and have some conversations. We often have just little one-on-one meetings with our crew because that's the first time in months that many of us have seen each other.

You know, we talk to each other. I stay in touch with Mark and Christina pretty often. I see Christina during the NBA season. I'm texting with Mark pretty much every week or on a phone call with him once, you know, once a month during the summer. You know, his wife just had twins. So, you know, I've kind of let him be for the most part. So this is the first chance we all get to be together, talk about the season. Hey, what do you want to work on? Is there something you need? What, you know, what's the booth going to look like? Hey, what do you think our first game is going to be? And then the rest of the time, it's learning rules, learning the rule changes with some of the NFL people. The officials come in. Our Pereira Blandino combo goes over stuff with us. We do divisional previews. A lot of the names you mentioned, Sanchez, Olson, Brady, Strayhand. These guys will chime in and say, hey, here's what I think about the NFC East. Here's what I think about the new coaching hires in the AFC West. Like, we're going to go over stuff and give, it kind of jogs your brain into preparation mode. And that's a big thing. And then the rest of the time is, hey, there's an in and out burger truck for you after we get done with our meetings and we're going to feed you and you guys are going to be able to hang out together and you know we're going to have our big meeting on the inside and all that like

it's it's nice to get your your mindset into the idea of hey football's coming and we have to treat it

that way because it's the biggest thing in the country do you have an opportunity to talk to people

either in other crews or the studio group that you probably don't see during the year? We don't see any of these people during the year because every Sunday we're all doing the same thing in a different city. So outside of the phone calls or FaceTime or text or whatever, hey, buddy, I saw you at the end of this game, great call. Hey dallas next week i haven't seen him do you have any

info on them other than that like this is the one time of year maybe or at least for the next eight

months that we're going to see each other so it's it's fun to be in the same room as burkhart and catch

up with with his wife and and to say hello to his son who were you know is like you know trying to work his way into college or see tom rinaldi in the gym you know like this is stuff that happens renaldi's doing wind sprints on the frigging treadmill and you know i'm just trying to stretch out my bad hip but there's tom so it's it's fun to be in the same room with everybody who kind of does the same job because these are the people that you commiserate, uh, commiserate with specifically. When Rinaldi's doing wind sprints or if he's

benching, like is there a piano behind him that plays sort of the orchestra music?

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