Erin Andrews was all set to begin her season with the new FOX top broadcast crew but to hear her tell it, that almost didn’t happen.
Andrews told the story of a frightening near disaster on the road on her way to cover the Packers/Vikings game this last weekend. She told Charissa Thompson, co-host of the Calm Down with Erin and Charissa podcast, that her driver fell asleep while she was in the back of the car prepping for the game.
Andrews said that she was on a conference call with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen with members of the Packers, including Aaron Rodgers when she heard a noise she didn’t want to hear.
“I’m typing, headphones are working, we’re good,” she began. “I hear snoring. I know it’s not Greg Olsen, Kevin Burkhardt or Aaron Rodgers snoring. It’s my driver who fell asleep at the wheel. On a highway from Chicago!”
Andrews would continue the heart-racing story.
“I am so thankful I put my phone on mute because we’re on a Zoom. I put my phone on mute and I go ‘ARE YOU EFFING SLEEPING?!'”
She then mentioned just how awful this experience was for her emotionally.
“So now I have the quarterback of the team I’m trying to work on, I’m trying to take notes. I have full blown anxiety. This is not the way I want to go down. This is not the way I want to die…”
Andrews then tried to solve the problem by attempting to help her sleepy driver out.
“After Aaron [Rodgers] gets off, I go ‘pull over at a Starbucks,’” she said. “I make him pull over at a McDonald’s. I go in, I get him a coffee. He doesn’t drink it. The entire car ride I am like ‘ahem ahem ahem’ monitoring if he’s sleeping at the wheel.”
