- It bounced off my face,
landed in a row behind me,
a kid caught it and that (beep)
asked me to sign it.
(laughs)
- Did you?
(upbeat music)
Hey guys.
Welcome to "Stir Crazy."
My guest today knows more about the NFL
than I know about VIN Diesel movies.
In other words, a lot.
She's a sports caster and host extraordinaire,
it's Erin Andrews, hey Erin.
- How are you? - It's good to see you.
Thanks for being here.
- Great to see you, nice to do this, I'm so excited
- Well, I was gonna to say,
I mean, this is a big time for you.
This is like, you know the, everybody says
like this, something, something is my Super Bowl.
This is literally your, this is the Super Bowl.
And it's it's you.
This is what you live for.
- Yeah, you're right, here it is, baby.
- So this is like me before an Avengers movie comes out.
I feel like, all the feels.
- Is Chris Hemsworth in an Avengers movie?
'Cause I feel that too, but yeah, I will tell you,
the energy of a Super Bowl and walking out on that field
and getting set to do your first hit
and hoping to God you don't screw up,
blank out or get sidetracked.
It's a lot of pressure, but it's a good time.
- Yeah, it's only the most watched event on the planet
- Right, casual, yeah.
- So we've got football on the brain.
But I know from reading about you,
you loved a lot of sports growing up
and in particular, basketball, Celtics.
You grew up with the Celtics.
- Yes, yes, yes. - Now correct me if I'm wrong.
Your first sports crush was the great Kevin McHale
of the Boston Celtics.
Let's take a look at a photo
of Kevin McHale and talk me through what's going on here.
So...
- He's not bow legged, that's for sure.
- Look at that posture.
I mean, that's amazing.
- It's better than mine, I'll tell you that.
- So was it, what was it?
Was it the short green shorts?
Was it the hair?
What was it about him?
- I don't know, I just think it was just,
he was on the court with Larry
and Larry is my guy and that was just my man, Kevin McHale.
I absolutely adored him.
- We here at "Stir Crazy," we like to make dreams come true.
I got a special video message just for you, Erin.
Do you want to see it?
- No, you didn't.
- We did, watch.
Okay, who's it from?
- Hey Erin, Kevin McHale here.
So I was told that I was your first crush,
which is wild and super flattering.
I didn't know you were a big Glee fan, but thank you.
I don't think it's gonna work out
for a number of reasons but I still appreciate the love.
See ya.
- I died, that's really great.
- That's so embarrassing, I'm so, I guess...
- I was really worried it was Kevin McHale,
like the real, well not that he's not
but you know what I mean?
That's awesome.
- Well, I mean, now I have to fire my staff of one person.
I'm so sorry about that.
Do reporters ever trash talk each other?
- There's no real trash talking.
Listen, everybody's aggressive down there.
You know, before COVID we were on the field, you know,
photographers are down there.
Everybody's trying to get their shot.
I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
I have had a photographer, in the midst of things,
I'm trying to listen and see what's going on.
He was wearing a cleat and he was trying to get a shot
and he freaking stepped on my foot
and I just had a flat on,
So my top of my foot was exposed and my man
went through my foot and I just looked at him
and for sure. I mother F'd him, I know I did.
And that was before I had to wear a mask
so everybody could hear it.
- Do you have a permanent cleat mark in your foot?
That sounds...
- I know, but that's also hot, by the way.
I mean, I married a hockey player,
so like, I'm into scars and so I was.
But, oh craziest story ever and this wasn't even football.
This was baseball back in the day
when I worked for ESPN.
I was working at Dodgers/Mets game at City Field
and Alex Cora hit a ball, nailed me right in the face.
What was even worse about it is my security guard ducked
and I was writing and I, oh, it was actually this side.
I looked up and went like this
and it walloped me in the mouth.
And I was like, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Even so much that a couple of players
and a couple of like, trainers came over
to see if I was okay. And I was like, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Leave me alone, I'm fine.
My dad ended up hearing about it.
Somebody texted him or they talked about it,
I think on the Mets broadcast.
My dad called me like, a couple innings later
and he goes, Erin?
And I go Dad, I got hit by a ball.
- For the record, your security guard had one, one job,
to protect you and they failed.
- I was pissed.
Oh, even better.
It bounced off my face,
landed in a row behind me, a kid caught it.
And that asshole asked me to sign it.
- Did you?
- No, I was so mad.
I should've kept it.
- Grab it from him.
I have a challenge for you
because I love a good nickname.
And a lot of NFL players have memorable nicknames.
I also love a good superhero or villain.
I'm gonna give you a name.
You tell me if this is a comic book character,
an NFL player or both.
(upbeat music)
Let's start with White Shoes.
- Oh God.
(laughs)
I'll say a football player.
- You are correct, look, rely on your instincts.
- Okay!
Who, do you know?
- That is Billy Johnson of the Oilers.
Apparently was the first to display
elaborate touchdown celebrations back in the day.
Galactus, nickname for a football player,
comic book character or both, Galactus?
- The second and not a football player.
- You are correct.
It is a, it's a, it's like a villain from the comics.
He, he's a cosmic entity that consumes planets,
for the record.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- You seem so nervous.
I've never seen somebody so scared,
- Trying to cover a heat rash, yeah.
- The Freak.
- The Freak?
Both?
- Yes, you're three for three.
- Okay.
Do you know the football player that was The Freak?
- Well, I know when, at the University of Florida,
where I went to school, Jevon Kearse was The Freak
but I don't know if that's the NFL. It was?
- Also a villain in "The Spawn," comic book,
I know your favorite comic book.
Erin, know that you are more than just they broadcaster,
you're, you're like, you're like, J-Lo,
you're like an entrepreneur, you do it all.
- Oh God.
- No, but you do.
- I wish I had J-Lo's, no.
- But you have your own clothing line,
that's not...
- Thank you, yes.
- That's pretty amazing.
- I felt like there was a real white space
for women who wanted to cheer on their team
and not feel like it was like, Patriots, boxed.
- I like to wear like a shapeless moomoo.
when I'm watching TV,
do you do custom, custom stuff for guys?
Can you do something for me?
- Or not?
But I'm going to tell you, next year, I'm gonna push
very, very hard to start some unisex
because I, I'm very tomboyish.
And I feel like a lot of my stuff,
my husband would, you know, roll in.
So we got you covered. - Okay, put me on the list.
Shall we play a good old fashioned game of charades?
Erin, you ready?
- Let's do it.
- I'm so bad at games.
- Oh, I'm the worst, I'm the worst, don't worry.
(upbeat music)
Water, she's drinking water.
Water, watermelon, water,
you drink water?
Erin's water, Erin's?
You, Erin.
Sportscaster, lady, water, water lady.
Water boy, "The Water Boy."
You can talk now, when you, we got it right.
- Oh yes, yes, yes.
Fishing, driving.
- Erin, have you ever played charades before?
You're worrying me.
- No.
- It's a movie, it's a movie.
- Oh, it's a movie.
What?
Oh, we're doing movies?
Okay, could have been hots, calm down.
- Ready again, we're all friends here, okay.
- [Erin] Three words.
- Yeah, see you can.
- Three.
- The third word, you've literally never played charades.
- No, I suck on the player, okay.
I don't know charades, okay, go on.
- Someone play a game with Erin.
- Sports are my house.
- Um, uh, uh.
- Coming, going, yay, screaming.
This is not gonna go well.
- This is a hard one. - Door, a lamp, light.
- Got it, you said it.
- Light bulb, like, wall, door.
- It was Friday Night...
- I don't know.
- Don't wake up your dog.
- Oh, it's "Friday Night Lights,"
"Friday Night Lights."
- Oh, charades is very hard.
- Three words, now she's got it, see?
Now you're like a pro.
Second word.
Blind, "The Blind Side."
- Wait, let's do another one.
- Oh come on, no, I'm not doing that.
"Remember the Titans," how the heck do you do that?
- That is, yeah, I wouldn't know how to do that.
I know you're a big fan of "Yellowstone," I hear.
- Yes, I want to be an extra on it so bad.
- Erin, this is what...
- I want to be a barrel girl, come on Kevin Costner.
- "Stir Crazy," is part of the Viacom, CBS family,
as is "Yellowstone."
I feel like we can make dreams come true.
You were...
- Listen.
- Okay, so you're, you're a fan.
You were married at "Yellowstone."
It feels like this is like a long con.
You're just trying to get into "Yellowstone," basically.
- Very, very true, yes. - So what do you want to play?
Are you gonna be a member of the family?
A friend, an enemy of Costner?
What do you, where do you want to play?
- Listen, I'm not an actress.
I don't claim to be one
but I would love to have just a little,
little, little, there I am, there I am, at the rodeo.
I don't care, I just want to do it so bad.
I love that show.
We're obsessed.
- Okay, let's end with some, would you rather questions.
(upbeat music)
You rather forget a player's name
during a live interview or accidentally spit in their face?
- Accidentally spit in thier face, but not during COVID.
- Yeah, that's true.
That's a good qualifier.
Would you rather accidentally curse on air
or accidentally be caught picking your nose on air?
- I've probably done both.
Curse. Well, now I know you, this has happened to you.
Would you rather be hit by a basketball
or tackled by J.J. Watt?
(laughs)
- I'd rather be hit by a basketball.
I have and I've lived to tell.
- Yeah, you know you can handle it.
- I feel like J.J. would go easy on me,
if it was real life and I was a quarterback, no bueno.
- This is the Dakota Johnson question.
She posed this to me on a previous episode,
we ask every guest this.
Would you rather have a mouthful of bees
or one bee in your butt?
- In my butt?
That's very personal.
- I know it, it's not gonna actually happen, don't worry.
- I'd rather have a bee in my butt.
- Yeah, yeah.
- What did you choose?
- That's the go-to.
99% of people say that.
- We did one back in the day when I worked college football.
Would you rather wrestle a silver back gorilla
or be in a swim tank with a great white?
All of it sounds freaking horrible.
- I'm gonna, I'm gonna go with the great white.
I feel like I've no shot.
Maybe the great white,
maybe the shark doesn't want to eat you.
Maybe it's a nice shark
but that, that gorillas, that, that, that,
that's just going to tear you apart.
- Isn't there a thing or is this a black bear,
where you just get down in like a hole,
like a thing.
- That's what they say but I don't want to test it out.
- Yeah, that just sounds awful.
- It really, this is ending on the darkest possible note
of being eaten by bears.
Let's end on a cheerful note.
- Picking your nose or cussing?
- You've prepared me well for Super Bowl 55,
this Sunday, 6:00 PM, Eastern time on CBS.
Erin, thanks so much for catching up with me today,
I appreciate it.
- Thanks so much for doing this.
I had a great time.
- [Josh] You bet.