NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson on being the leader of group projects, getting rejected, the spirituality of sports, and how the NFL draft is like a stockholder meeting
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Madeline and Charlotte are thrilled to welcome Emmy award-winner Scott Hanson to the show for a very special conversation. Scott is the host of NFL RedZone, Gold Zone during the Olympics, and is in EA Sports’ Madden NFL. If you’re a football fan, he is the voice of your Sundays.
But first, the gals discuss the workplace drama in the WNBA. In her exit interview on Tuesday, Lynx star Napheesa Collier called out the league and the commissioner, Cathy Englebert, specifically. She came with receipts and the result was a masterclass in speaking truth to power, especially during the ongoing CBA negotiations. Your employer is not your friend!
Then it’s time for the gals’ conversation with Scott. They covered a lot of ground, including:
- What Scott means to his fans, and how seriously he takes his job
- Wanting to make sports more accessible
- How he was rejected from his college program of choice and worked his butt off to get in
- Why his habits as a child actually made him perfect for his RedZone job
- The hope of rookie quarterbacks
- Why sports are spiritual
- Why the NFL draft is like a hopeful shareholder’s meeting
- An incredible story about one of Tony Romo’s groomsmen
And much more! Thanks again to Scott, and you can find information about RedZone at nfl.com/redzone
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| 0:38.1 | Okay, let's know that sounded. All right. All right. |
| 0:50.4 | Hi, Charlotte. Madeline, hello. We're back. Woo! We have such an incredible episode today. We interviewed Red Zone host Scott Hansen, which was like a dream come true that I didn't know I needed, but now I need it. And now I'm obsessed with Red Zone. Yeah, no. We, Madeline watched Red Zone for the first time a few weeks ago. And the video on viral, Scott saw it so kindly agreed to come in the show. |
| 1:13.3 | We had such a thoughtful, funny, lovely conversation with him. |
| 1:17.5 | He gave us way more time than he had to. |
| 1:20.7 | You're all really, you're going to love it. |
| 1:22.3 | It's so good. |
| 1:22.9 | But first, we have some workplace drama happening in sports that is so massive. |
| 1:28.3 | We simply cannot go another day without talking about it. |
| 1:31.9 | This news broke yesterday, like, enough time after we finished recording the show that we |
| 1:37.8 | couldn't go back. |
| 1:38.7 | Right. |
| 1:39.1 | But it actually turned out, it worked pretty well because, or sorry, it on tuesday um because now we've had sort of a |
| 1:46.3 | news cycle to uh discuss this and we're recording this on wednesday so if you're hearing this on |
| 1:52.2 | thursday and more stuff has happened which i'm sure it will just know that we will address it |
| 1:56.1 | next week for sure for sure but um what we're talking about, of course, is Nefisa Collier, |
| 2:08.4 | WMBA star of the Minnesota Links. They were recently bounced from the playoffs. A lot of drama around that. You can go listen to our episode from Tuesday for the full context. |
| 2:13.4 | She showed up to her exit press interview with a prepared written statement where she pretty |
| 2:19.2 | much eviscerated the league and its leadership in a very impressive tactful way. |
| 2:27.4 | Yes. |
| 2:28.0 | So the TLDR, we'll get into the specifics, is that she basically claims that the league |
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