Sam Flood

I talked to NBC.

Sam Flood was the executive producer.

I talked him into me wearing skates the whole time.

Only time it's happened.

And over the years, it just kept growing until, you know, it got to be really kind of unwieldy, but, you know, I just couldn't put the genie back in the bottle.

When I started writing it at NBC, Sam Flood, who was my boss and really a great guy to me while I worked at NBC exclusively after I left SI, he said, listen, you can write a lot shorter and we would be absolutely fine with it.

Don't worry about us.

We don't want you to kill yourself.

back-to-back, home-and-homes.

Yeah, so that was created under Sam Flood in the NBC package.

And that's why I still don't understand the schedule because if you go look at the TV numbers under NBC and Sam, rivalry mattered.

They created a rivalry Wednesday.

I was kind of, uh, a mechanic in, in describing games.

But when I got to NBC, our producer there was Sam Flood, and he basically let me and in- and encouraged me along the way in being myself, and I didn't know who myself was yet.

But in trying some things-

Hmm