Rich Eisen did an AMA on Reddit today. Link for those interested.

finsincebirth · Oct 25, 2012

So I don't know how many of you use the site Reddit.com, but they have a section where famous people can do an AMA where stands for "ask me anything". It's pretty self-explanatory, but whoever is doing the AMA tries to answer as many questions that the users post. I though you guys might find it interesting to see some behind the scenes info from ESPN and NLFN. Rich's comments are the username with the blue box.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/122ft5/iam_rich_eisen_face_of_the_nfl_network_host_of/

A couple of snippets for the lazy.

Funniest athlete you ever met?

[–]RichEisen 32 points 1 hour ago (35|3)
Chad Johnson is one of the funniest for sure. He once told me that if he ever made it to the Super Bowl, he would show up to the media day wearing only a towel. When he said it to me back in 2005, I think he thought the circumstances would be making the Super Bowl with the Bengals and Marvin Lewis. That's because when he finally made it last year with the Patriots, there was no towel to be seen. I don't think Belichick would have gone for that. At any rate, Chad has a great sense of humor. But number one for me is Deion. That man could go joke for joke with Chris Rock. As for current players, it's Matt Hasselbeck. He is laugh-out-loud funny and has a future in TV the moment he wants it. I'm rooting for him to stay on the winning path in Tennessee first, though.
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Hey Rich, huge fan.
Who is the most fun to do a broadcast with, either from your podcast, NFLN, or your days at ESPN?

[–]RichEisen 47 points 1 hour ago (45|6)
At ESPN, obviously Stuart Scott was the one with whom I had the best rapport. We came from completely different sides of the pop culture spectrum and it was a fantastic mix. I thoroughly enjoyed doing SportsCenter with him and Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann, Mike Tirico, Linda Cohn. Fond memories. As far as NFLN is concerned, I'm blessed to work with some of the best players from our generation as well as great personalities. Deion is one-of-a-kind. I'd go through the wall for him. Marshall Faulk is the Rainman of football. He views the game like no other. He can look at a formation and tell most of the time if an interception is coming, like telling me the number of toothpicks that just fell on the ground. It's a blessing. My podcast is a pure joy to do. I'm proud to say it just passed the 7 million download milestone after just 27 months.
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