SNF Executive Producer Fred Gaudelli & Vikings Head Athletic Trainer Eric Sugarman

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Peter King is back from summer vacation as the NFL faces an uncertain future (2:10) Peter discusses his what he was up to during the hiatus and the uncertainty surrounding training camp (8:20) SNF on NBC Executive Producer Fred Gaudelli on what to expect from football on TV in the midst of the pandemic (44:15) Eric Sugarman, the head athletic trainer for the Vikings, gives Peter a tour of the team facility and explains the extensive steps the organization must take in order to follow the health & safety protocols necessary for football to have a chance this fall

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast.
0:09.0	Actually, this is the beginning of year three of the Peter King
0:15.6	Podcast at NBC Sports. I am so happy to be back for a third year. There is so much to talk about. I mean usually here we are in July and we're saying okay well let's go to this training camp go to that training camp.
0:31.0	Quite honestly I am in quarantine which I to that
0:35.0	I am in quarantine, which I will explain in a moment. I'm in quarantine in my apartment in
0:39.5	Brooklyn as I record this. So I'll explain to you how this summer is going to go how it's going to be
0:46.8	different from other summers for me but first let's talk about what we have on tap in this podcast.
0:55.2	Number one, Fred Guadelli of NBC Sports,
0:58.4	the executive producer of Sunday night football in NBC, nine consecutive years, the most watched program in all of American
1:10.4	television. So we're going to have Fred Gadelli to talk about what he sees in this very odd year coming up with football on television and with football period. And then I'll be joined by Eric Sugarman, the head
1:26.8	athletic trainer of the Minnesota Vikings. He gave me a tour of the Vikings facility last Friday. a
1:35.0	few days ago, as I record this on Tuesday, July 21,
1:40.0	we are still so much in flux with what's going to happen in football, but you're going to hear a lot about what an NFL facility is going to be like this year.
1:52.0	A lot of education
1:54.4	from Eric Sugarman.
1:56.0	But first, a few thoughts about this very unusual year
2:00.6	and a very unusual way to start year three of my tenure full time at NBC. So, was on vacation for a few weeks and I really didn't do very much on vacation. It's my 40th anniversary. My wife and I, we had these grandiose plans. We were going to go to Europe where we were going to go to the fjords in Norway,
2:24.8	and then we were going to do something really romantic.
2:27.0	We were going to go to Auschwitz.
2:29.8	We always wanted to go to Auschwitz, and I don't mean to make light of it, but it's just one of those things that, hey, we're going to go, but it didn't quite work out this year. That'll have to be anniversary 41, hopefully.
2:44.4	But so we stayed around the house an awful lot,
2:48.6	took short trips to Rhode Island, to the beach,
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