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I just finished phone-interviewing an NFL spokesman. That was an interesting experience, but definitely not my finest work ever. I rambled a lot and didn’t have enough lines of questioning.

The best moment was when the interview was interrupted by the roar of an audience in the background. I think he was watching a key play on a television– sounded exciting. Anyway, I then mentioned that I had been up until 2 AM watching the Arizona-San Francisco game. He offered condolences on my Fitzgerald pick.

I learned a few things that might be interesting. I had suspected that the NFL rolled out the ad campaign in question because of the highly publicized Michael Vicks case. Lisa Baird said as much in the New York Times…

“Within the league, people were worried that ‘the misdeeds of a few’ were starting to ‘represent the image of all 2,000,’ she said.

Mr. McCarthy, the spokesperson I interviewed, said that the ads were not linked to the Vicks case and that they had been created (conceived?) in January. I’m not sure whether the discrepancy is relevant to the Brady Quinn/Notre Dame article. Seems like padding.

This is pretty indicative of how the interview went. He mentioned Willie McGinest and Brady Quinn and Vince Young and Braylon Edwards and the rest of the lineup. I asked if there was any particular reason there were two Browns players selected out of six. (I had expected that the players were chosen with geographic diversity in mind). Whoops. It turns out that there were three Browns players: I missed Edwards (but knew McGinest and, of course, Brady Quinn).

I’m trying a crash course approach to football, starting with a fantasy league and watching five games a week, but this area really isn’t my forte. Unfortunately, no one is as interested in politics… my site’s traffic has doubled since I started adding football posts.   According to Google Analytics, the most popular search query leading to this site is “Appalachian football”, followed by “Michigan [got] dominated”.  Dammit!  Writers of the world, unite!