Erin Andrews Is Right, Our Aggregated Culture, Stories With Sports’ Most Well-Known Personalities and All Aboard The Lane Train

Speaking the truth about working in sports?? Blasphemy! This week on the podcast, we’ll look back at Erin Andrews’ Thanksgiving-aggregated news-making comments and examine her truthful, straight-from-the-heart words about working in the business and the way the Internet quickly aggregates stories about celebrities, even when they’re taken out of context. We’ll get into the sacrifices you have to make to work in the business and how Erin’s comments should be heard more often - that it’s not always sunshine and rainbows covering big-time events. Also, why do we condemn people who are successful, at least on social media, for having thoughts on work-life balance and mental health?We’ve been lucky to work with some of the industry’s great personalities and relive some of those memories, and of course, you didn’t think we’d just let Lane Kiffin off the hook as he rode off on his pontoon boat to Baton Rouge, did you? He’ll play a starring role in one of our sponsor segments, “I Wanna Be A Ho”. Our other supporting sponsor for this week’s episode is Modern Computers, because sometimes comms pros need a little help remembering they’re actually living in 2025.Timestamps7:26 - Erin Andrews' Honest Advice18:31 - Social Media Sucks: Barca Needs a T-Shirt19:15 - The Value of Real-Life Connections22:19 - Advice for Young People in Sports24:22 - Living in the Moment in Sports29:21 - The Highs and Lows of Sports Careers49:14 - The Power of Relationships in Sports53:08 - Dick Vitale and Bill Walton: Legends Off Camera1:00:40 - Our New Sponsors, Modern Computers and I Wanna Be A HoFind us on all of the socials at NLCPod.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NLCPodX: https://x.com/nlcpodLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/nlcpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlcpodTikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@nlcpod