OUR NFLN EXPERIENCE
It was an unusual day, to say the least. Six years after doing a couple of live spots on CourtTV during the unfortunate State v. Carruth and State v. Chmura episodes while affiliated with the now-defunct NFLtalk.com, it was time for yours truly to make a return appearance on national television.
Because we do 10-15 radio spots a week, I figured it would be a breeze. But there's something very different about staring into the business end of a camera, especially when you're told to be sure to make constant eye contact with the lens.
It's like being told not to look into a solar eclipse. The harder you try to comply, the harder it is to succeed.
And it's impossible to appreciate how difficult it is to be even moderately articulate on camera until you're sitting in that chair, straining to simultaneously think and talk and maintain eye contact with something that has no eyes.
It was almost enough to get us to swear off the practice of criticizing the sock puppets.
Almost.
Still, we really enjoyed it. Though we will continue to call it as we see it when it comes to all matters of pro football, appearing on the network owned by and named after the football organization I've been following closely since I was eight years old was extremely cool. Thanks to the folks at NFLN for the opportunity.
So what did PFT Planet think about all of this? We've posted several of the e-mails we've received in our e-mails we like segment, which has been updated less frequently during the hectic early days of free agency.
