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RUSH: The sports reporter story. I got people reminding me that I promised to tell you. It was Pittsburgh last year, last football season, Sunday night game, Ravens and Steelers. And whenever I go in for a Sunday night game, I always go down to the sideline and I hang around. It happened to be Steelers alumni weekend, which means that a bunch of former players were in town as guests of the Steelers. They\u2019d had a big soiree on Friday and Saturday night and then Sunday before the game they\u2019re all out there pregame sideline, and they have a little bit of a ceremony, not much. But you had guys, Steelers players from the seventies, Super Bowl teams, from every Steelers team every year. They\u2019re not all there, but a bunch of them were. <\/p>\n

So it was a fun sideline. There was a lot of stuff. I was talking to Lynn Swann a lot, and Chris Hoke. Chris Hoke was a nose tackle, played behind Casey Hampton. And I\u2019m sideline two or three years ago, Steelers, and this guy comes out, I knew who he was, I\u2019m a fan. Chris Hoke comes up during the pregame and he told me he enjoyed my show and he listens every chance that he gets and he just wanted to say hi. So I give him a couple of pounds on the shoulder pads, I thanked him and he ran back out to warm-ups. <\/p>\n

Now, as a nose tackle, he\u2019s six something and close to 300, maybe a little more. Blond headed guy, good-looking guy, Chris Hoke. Steelers alumni weekend, this past November, I\u2019m sidelined, the guy comes up, starts talking to me. It\u2019s hard to hear down there. You got the music playing, a lot of conversation, guy comes up and starts talking to me. It\u2019s Chris Hoke minus 120 pounds. It took me awhile for this to register. I looked at him and I finally figured out who he was. I looked at him and said, “My God, you look great. What did you do?” And he said, “I just started eating normally.” And he explained to me that he had to eat, in order to maintain that weight, to keep his job, his workout was the refrigerator. <\/line><\/p>\n

He had to eat five times what the normal human being ate every day to keep his weight up. And I said, “Well, how did you stay in shape?” Weight room. Constantly lifting weights, so forth. And he looked in football shape when he was at 300, but the guy shows up, looked like an Adonis, skinny, jutting jaw, his neck was much smaller, waist, of course. And I had a tough time believing it was him at first because his face had narrowed down, but he told me eating was a job.<\/p>\n

It got to the point he got sick of it, and so he got down to a normal weight simply by eating what a normal person eats, that\u2019s what he told me. I would love to be able to try it, but I couldn\u2019t eat that much. I couldn\u2019t do it. I didn\u2019t get into details of what he ate or any of that. But I said, “What did you have pregame?” He didn\u2019t eat much during pregame. You gotta feel light. You gotta be light and fast in the pregame, so you don\u2019t want to load yourself down. After the game, Saturday night before the game, it was a carbo-load like you can\u2019t believe. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019m watching all this, and it\u2019s a Sunday night game so the kickoff\u2019s around 8:30 to 8:40. At eight o\u2019clock is when, if your pregame pass is only pregame, you gotta leave. So it\u2019s about eight o\u2019clock. Now, the Steelers come out and start warming up and the Ravens, too. Everybody is doing their warmups in stages, but the full team, the official beginning of warmups is calisthenics, and everybody is out there. They\u2019re lined up in the order that they must be in.<\/p>\n

At that point, there\u2019s no jocularity in the pregame. Before this happens they\u2019re yukking it up and laughing it up and throwing the football around. But that\u2019s when the serious pregame begins. No media is permitted, and I look out there, and there is a woman running around on the field. She\u2019s running around kissing and hugging these players, the Steelers, while they\u2019re in the middle of the beginning of the official pregame, the calisthenics. I\u2019m looking out there and I recognize who it is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna tell you because the point here is not to embarrass anybody, but I look out there and I recognized who it was. I said, “There\u2019s gotta be a camera crew out there somewhere. She\u2019s gotta be out there getting news.” But there was no camera crew and there was no microphone, and there was no notepad, and there was no pencil. She was just running around hugging people and giving them kisses on the cheek, and it was a journalist! I\u2019m thinking, “Well, I\u2019m gonna start looking at reports on the Steelers from this reporter a little bit differently.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve been promising to tell the story, and if it\u2019s not as big a deal as you were led to believe, I didn\u2019t want to build it up on purpose for that reason. But it\u2019s just a story about journalism and how these people are socializing, becoming close friends — and sometimes even more — with the people they report on. In sports or politics, it doesn\u2019t matter which. The lines get blurred, the lines you shouldn\u2019t cross and so forth. That leads to explanations of who has access and who doesn\u2019t and how they get the access. I\u2019m sure that she just wishing them a happy Thanksgiving. I\u2019m sure that that\u2019s all that was going on.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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