Jamie Erdahl shines brightly each morning on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football. She is a guest this week on the Front Office Sports Today podcast and told Michael McCarthy that her basketball career at St. Olaf College helped prepare her for her role in broadcasting.
McCarthy described her role on GMFB as “a point guard.” Erdahl said the comparison is apt, because any good point guard has to know what will make their team succeed.
“I like when other people look their best and sound their best and feel like they are in the best spot to be their best version on television,” she said.
Erdahl added that she also learned a lot from her years working for CBS. She was a sideline reporter for the network’s NFL broadcasts as well as the weekly SEC on CBS game. She said the role taught her to be selfless on television.
“Being a sideline reporter, it is not about you,” she said. “You are telling somebody else’s story. My job is to set Nick Saban up in a way to give the best answer possible, frankly, in saying the least amount of things as possible, in my opinion. I think the best questions sometimes are the quickest.”
She added that learning what your colleagues need also matters. She noted that how she poses a question to each of her GMFB co-stars is different because she wants each of them at their most comfortable.
