You won’t be seeing Erin Andrews back within the dugout anytime soon.
The longtime Fox star reporter explained her rationale for not joining the network’s coverage of the MLB playoffs as she had done earlier in her profession.
“I discovered that coming in at the top of the 12 months after, you recognize, covering football after which jumping [in], I felt like I used to be doing a disservice to those that were watching at home,” Andrews, who covered the MLB All-Star Game and World Series for Fox from 2012-15, said on her “Calm Down” podcast this week in response to a fan query.
“I felt like there have been other those that had covered all of it all year long that knew the ins and outs.”
Andrews began covering the NFL exclusively after joining the highest broadcast team with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman in 2016 when she re-signed with the network.
Andrews has since grow to be a staple on the NFL sidelines and stuck with the highest broadcast team — now Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady — whilst Buck and Aikman left to call “Monday Night Football” for ESPN.
“That’s how I take into consideration with football,” Andrews, 47, said, as covered by Awful Announcing. “In case you’re not covering football all 12 months long, and you then’re jumping into the playoffs, you don’t know the storylines. You don’t know what’s happening within the meetings. And I just felt like I used to be not giving what I could give, and what other people could do, like a Kenny Rosenthal … And I almost felt silly. And the catch-up was really, really hard.”
Andrews has veered outside of sports, too.
She was a number of “Dancing With the Stars” for 11 seasons and has recently taken over the identical role with Fox’s “99 to Beat.”
Andrews signed a lucrative extension with Fox over the summer, as did “Calm Down” co-host Charissa Thompson, who stars on the network’s studio show.
