Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Total Access A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe by Rich Eisen Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe. Sports fans are hungry for access! Fans of football are tired of lame, poorly written memoirs or technical fantasy football books. Rich Eisen is going to give them what they want—a chance to share his world of a never-ending football season. As host of the NFL Network's marquee show Total Access, Eisen is truly the ultimate fly on the wall and one of only a handful of people who attend almost every event on the NFL calendar from the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl to the NFL Draft to the Hall of Fame Weekend and regular season kickoff. Talking in a style that is truly his own, Eisen provides the rabid fan with news, interviews, and analysis with his razor sharp wit honed by years of experience. Total Access will cover every aspect of pro football including: • Eisen's unique take on the off season events • On and off field controversies • The facts you don't get from a stat book Eisen shows listeners the football world in a completely new, entertaining and insightful way, just like Jon Stewart revolutionized America's political news. It is the ultimate audiobook for fans everywhere. Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe. NFL Network host Eisen brings readers inside the rookie draft, into the owners meetings, on the field with cheerleaders, and to the Super Bowl and back again, in this book that gives fans a chance to share in his world of a never-ending football season. Eight-page b&w photo insert. Read More. NFL Network host Eisen brings readers inside the rookie draft, into the owners meetings, on the field with cheerleaders, and to the Super Bowl and back again, in this book that gives fans a chance to share in his world of a never-ending football season. Eight-page b&w photo insert. Read Less. All Copies ( 68 ) Softcover ( 24 ) Hardcover ( 40 ) Audiobook ( 3 ) Choose Edition ( 3 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 2008, St. Martins Press-3PL. Edition: 2008, St. Martins Press-3PL Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0312369794 ISBN-13: 9780312369798 Pages: 323 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL Published: 2008 Language: English Alibris ID: 16680664668 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. 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Eisen hosts NFL Total Access Kickoff on NFL Network every week prior to the Thursday Night Football matchup. Since 2010, Eisen has served as host of the Emmy-nominated NFL GameDay Morning on NFL Network, the most comprehensive NFL pregame show on television. Eisen also anchors NFL Network’s special on-location coverage of the NFL Draft, NFL Scouting Combine, Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Weekend and Super Bowl. Eisen is the host of the Emmy-nominated Rich Eisen Show on DIRECTV’s Audience Network, AT&T SportsNet channels in Pittsburgh, Denver and Seattle, and NFL Now. The Rich Eisen Show airs Monday-Friday from 12 Noon – 3:00 PM ET and allows Eisen to use his engaging blend of insightful football expertise, with an offbeat mix of humor and pop culture while continuing to attract the most recognizable names in sports and entertainment. A four-time Sports Emmy nominee in the Outstanding Studio Host category, Eisen has also served as emcee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton, OH. One of television’s most visible anchors and personalities from the past decade, Eisen was a mainstay on ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1996 to 2003. Outside the world of sports, Eisen recently served as the host of TNT’s first-ever reality competition program “The Great Escape.” Prior to joining ESPN, Eisen worked at KRCR-TV in Redding, California, as a sports anchor (1994-96). His television journalism career includes serving as the Medill News Service’s Washington correspondent (1994) and as a production assistant for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chung in 1994. In 2007, Eisen penned Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe about his experiences as host for NFL Network. He worked in print journalism as a staff writer for the Staten Island Advance (1990-93) and at the Chicago Tribune covering Chicago public high school football and basketball (1993-94). Eisen is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and earned a Master of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1994. Eisen resides in Los Angeles with his wife and long-time ABC, FOX and TNT sports broadcaster Suzy Shuster. Together, they have three children and two rescue dogs. Total Access. Football fans are tired of lame memoirs or technical fantasy football books. Rich Eisen is going to give them what they want—a chance to share in his world of a never-ending football season. It's about eating, living, and breathing the most popular sport in the history of America. The passion. The pageantry. The pigskin. Thanks to his role as host of NFL Total Access, Eisen gets to go to virtually every event on the NFL calendar—the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Scouting Combine, the NFL Draft, and the Hall of Fame Weekend. You name it, Eisen is there. And thanks to this book, you can go along for the ride with him—in front of the camera interviewing league MVPs or behind the scenes with some of the game's all- time greats. Total Access is the ultimate football book for fans everywhere. CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR. OFFICIAL SITES. Related Links. SIGN UP FOR AUTHOR UPDATES. MACMILLAN NEWSLETTER. Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers. Book Excerpt Media Reviews About the Author From the Publisher. EXCERPT. Listen to an Excerpt from the Audiobook. MEDIA. Watch. Total Access by Rich Eisen--Audiobook Excerpt. Listen to this audiobook excerpt and hear Rich Eisen read from his book Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe. Sports fans are hungry for access! Fans of football are tired of lame, poorly written memoirs or technical fantasy football books. Rich Eisen is going to give them what they want—a chance to share his world of a never-ending football season. Reviews. Praise for Total Access. “I've always admired Rich Eisen's work, so it's no surprise to me that his book is very entertaining. What is a surprise is that he's somehow found time to write it in between the NFL Network's 6,347 hours of coverage of weak-side linebackers who could be draft-sleepers. That sort of programming and this book about it are both genuine public services.” — Bob Costas. “A lot of things in our lives are far less than as advertised, but this book advertises Total Access and gives you Total Access. That's right. Total Access! I'm not kidding. I liked this book and I'm not a reader.” — Tony Kornheiser, columnist for The Washington Post and co-host for ESPN's Pardon the Interruption. “Rich uses his great sense of humor to detail the life of an on-air NFL personality. It is a world I know well, but still I couldn't stop turning the pages. It is a great read---a must for anyone who loves television and Pro Football.” — Joe Buck, Fox Sports. Rich Eisen's 'Journey' to the Heart of Football. The NFL season reaches the halfway point, with the New England Patriots undefeated and the Miami Dolphins still looking for a way to win. Rich Eisen, host of the NFL Network's NFL Total Access and author of Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe , runs the deep route. LUKE BURBANK, host: Big NFL football weekend coming up, which as I may have mentioned over 70 times in this program. I'll be enjoying from the Mandalay-based sports book in Las Vegas. Ali, I got to tell you. You sit there in the sports book and you overhear guys talking about these different teams and about their bets, and the sheer amount of information that these guys have crammed into their brains about like the fifth string, long snapper for the Tennessee Titans and if he has a hangnail and if it's infected or not. The amount of information is stunning/disturbing. Well, our next guest is largely responsible for those kinds of conversations occurring. Rich Eisen hosts NFL Total Access on the NFL network, a channel that just talks about the NFL 24 hours a day, 365 a year, and it's awesome. (Soundbite of laughter) BURBANK: Rich Eisen also has a new book out called "Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe." And he joins us now. Hi, Rich. Mr. RICH EISEN (Host, "NFL Total Access"): How are you doing? So when you're the Mandalay-based sports book, do me a favor and this is because, you know, the NFL I'm not allowed into places like that because I work for NFL, Mentioned my book when they talked about the 5th string long snapper, just start spreading the word of mouth about my book. BURBANK: Maybe I can get on the little PA system they have there, just commandeering and like tell them what the 6th race at Saratoga was and also… Mr. EISEN: That's fine. BURBANK: …check out Rich Eisen's book. Mr. EISEN: I think it's a great idea. See how long you last in the… (Soundbite of laughter) BURBANK: They are so paranoid. If you bring your phone out in there, they get freaked out that you're running some kind of a version of the sting where you're getting like tips, you know, from somebody else. BURBANK: It's an oddly, oddly kind of baroque place, the sports book. Mr. EISEN: I suggest what you do is to not attract any attention. You should dress like Tom Cruise in "Rain Man." Bring somebody dressed just like him with you and then go ahead and do that. Give that one a whirl. BURBANK: I'm definitely going to put down on my list of things that might happen this weekend. Let's talk about your book, Rich. The cover - let's start with the cover which has an amazing photograph. It's you in a nice suit and some dress shoes and you're sprinting on Astroturf. What are you doing, sir? Mr. EISEN: I'm running the 40-yard dash. That's an annual event called the NFL Scouting Combine, which is held after this - about three weeks after the Super Bowl every year because as soon as the Super Bowl ends, the rest of the calendar year begins to kick off. That's what my book is about. It's about the fact that there's no such thing as an off-season anymore. That's a playing season and a non-playing season. And three weeks after the Super Bowl was over, every single team in the NFL is active again. At this event, the Scouting Combine, where every prospective NFL rookie that's draft eligible for the draft that takes place two months after the Combine is in one place in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, home of the Indianapolis Colts. To run 40 yard dashes, lift weights, do things for every single scout. And it's somewhat of a dry event, if you will, that NFL network covers, so I tried to spruce it up every year by running the 40-yard dash myself in my uniform. BURBANK: How did you do? What kind of time? Mr. EISEN: The first year I did it in 2005, I ran it in a blazing and Nike goddess like 6.77 seconds, which is about two and a half seconds slower than what you need to do to make the National Football League. BURBANK: Which may not sound like a lot, but when you're talking about a 40-yard dash two seconds is it might as well be an hour. Mr. EISEN: Well, I mean, the difference between drafted at running back is if you run a 4.04 or 5.40, you can get drafted to running back. If you want a 4.8-40(ph), you don't get drafted. I ran a 6.77, but as I like to tell everybody, you can't measure what's inside. You can't measure my heart. BURBANK: Those are the intangibles and that's why I think you've been rated a high in a lot of a… BURBANK: …a lot of those draft Web sites. Mr. EISEN: Then I decided to make it the cover of the book because my book is, you know, even though, does take you inside events that are hardcore, like the Scouting Combine, it's really not the most hardcore football book. I'm not really breaking down if things like the cover two defenses or the four wide receiver set. I'm basically taking my press pass off my neck and putting it on the neck of the reader and taking them inside every single event in the NFL calendar and showing how much fun we have on NFL network doing it. BURBANK: You kind of take people into this really surreal world of covering the NFL and having all these access that you have with the NFL Network. I wonder, are you a little surprise at the success of the NFL Network in terms of fans loving it, because when it's launched, I was thinking what am I going to care about somebody's scout team tied-in in May. BURBANK: And yet, I totally care. Are you surprised? Mr. EISEN: No, not really. I was hoping it would be, but I'm not really surprise. I mean I left ESPN four years ago, which is again something I chronicled in the book, the decision that I made and what it was like launching this network. But do you know, the country seems to have an insatiable appetite for all things NFL these days. And we're feeding it to them. And just, you know, this past couple of weeks when the Colts and the Patriots played last Sunday and it garnered a rating - television rating that was kin to an American Idol episode. And it was on a Sunday afternoon. People just can't get enough of it right now. And we are busier in the non-playing season, as I'd like to say it, than the playing season, because all 32 teams are relevant. I mean, right now we're entering week 10 of the National Football League Season and a few teams are already off the radar screen because, well, a couple of them are winless. So several teams are going to make the play-offs, which is the most relevant storyline over the next few weeks. So… BURBANK: Do you think, Rich, that you guys make football a little worse in this way? A friend of mine (unintelligible)… Mr. EISEN: How do we answer that question? STEWART: Yeah. He has a nice build up there. BURBANK: I'm going to explain what… Mr. EISEN: That's a hell of caveat. Go ahead. BURBANK: I'm going to explain what I mean and then you'll probably still say no, but a friend of mine who's a hardcore sports fan - he loves baseball because basically what happens in baseball is you play a game, it's over, you get up the next day, you play another game. And what he doesn't like about football is that it's a soap opera. You have a game and then you have, as soon as it's over, six days of drama and soap operatic arguments between this wide receiver and this quarterback. And it plays out like "All My Children," more so than as an athletic event. And all week it's, you know, Ed Werder reporting live from Dallas training camp on ESPN about this guy being mad at this guy because he hit on this guy's wife. And the NFL Network chronicles what goes on in this week so closely. Is it almost too much and does it almost make it about the wrong things? Mr. EISEN: No, not at all. It's never, not the case in that respect. I mean, if you think about it with baseball, you know, you have to pay attention to - and I'm a baseball nut. And in fact, I write that in the introduction that baseball is my first love and taking the job with NFL Network was a little bit of - I was a little - have a bit of trepidation because, you know, I wasn't covering my favorite sport anymore. And I was going to be covering the sport that wasn't really my favorite, but I have fallen in love with it and part of it has to do with the fact that it's a perfect being in my mind. And that it is only played once a week, that there is build up to something that you can take your time and figure out what you liked about a certain team, what you don't. That your fantasy football league team only needs to be set once a week is supposed to once a day with baseball. And that's what brings the casual fan into the tent more than the hardcore fan of any other sport. I mean, every other major sport in America would kill to have the number of casual fans that the National Football League has. And I think the reason for that is it's only once a week. And we, you know, really never really talked about quote, unquote, "the wrong thing." In fact, many people who own us in the National Football league think we probably do talked about the wrong thing because we talked about things like Michael Vick and Pacman Jones and things that, well, police blotter items that took place in the spring, in the summer rather than just talking about the only things that would whitewash a National Football League fan. BURBANK: Well, that kind of leads nicely into my next question, which… Mr. EISEN: I'm just telling now on your rundown… BURBANK: I appreciate it. STEWART: Because he's a broadcast professional. BURBANK: Did we e-mail that to you because you're just kind of segueing beautifully, which is… Mr. EISEN: Please go ahead. BURBANK: You covered the NFL and yet you worked for the NFL and I mean, is there a firewall somewhere? Can you get on and say anything you want? Mr. EISEN: I would never have take a job, as I was, again, turning - if I was going to run the football equivalent of the Russian news agency. You know, I wouldn't, I guess to - I guess (unintelligible) tell into the news of the day that if there was a difficult new story in the National Football League, it wouldn't figuratively surround my house with barbed wire. You know, I would be able to talk about everything. And the only thing we don't talk about, which I think brings us completely full circle is the gambling lines. We don't - we don't talk about what most people talk about… BURBANK: Well, that's my next six questions. Mr. EISEN: We don't go over and under. We don't talk about pluses and minuses because the league frowns upon gambling of that nature. And I was fine with that, I mean, if anybody needs their football news to the prison move of betting lines and there's so many other different outlets that they can get the news from. But I've never been told you can't say this, you need to say that. STEWART: And I was impressed with the Benazir Bhutto reference. BURBANK: That was great. Mr. EISEN: How many sportscasters can go Pakistan turmoil? BURBANK: At 5:40 in the a.m. west coast. Mr. EISEN: Out of where I am right now, where it's completely pitch black right now. BURBANK: That's brilliant. Well, you mentioned… Mr. EISEN: That's what I'll do for NPR. That's what I'll do, is I go the extra mile. BURBANK: Are you sure you don'ts want to be with Larry and the Nut Hut(ph) in Tucson Sports Radio or whatever? Mr. EISEN: Larry and the Nut Hut(ph). I like that one. BURBANK: You mentioned Mike Vick and I think that's a story that has certainly transcended pro-football fan. I mean, it's everyone who's anyone in America heard this guy's story. I guess what I wonder is you're somebody who is so inside this world and you know a lot about that story and how the NFL works more so than most people. What do you think - what is it - what can you tell us about this story that, I guess, people on the outside don't really get? Can you illuminate it for us? Mr. EISEN: I don't think there's anything that any other illumination that I can give you. I mean, to me, it's such a foreign, barbaric concept that - of dog fighting period. You know, I'm a dog lover. I support of the bill out here in California that requires spaying and neutering of animals. I love Bob Barker… BURBANK: I was going to say that's (unintelligible)… Mr. EISEN: I almost would end my show everyday by saying please help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed and neutered. At any rate, long story short, it is mind-boggling to me that a face of an NFL franchise, someone with a $100 million sports contract, would spend any part of his spare time thinking I've got to go to a house that I own in Virginia that I set up specifically for dog fighting, to go fight dogs. But there is a subculture in sports, and in many, it's not just sports. It's all walks of life in which people do this sort of thing. And the NFL finding out about it, it's best to completely root it up and tempt it out. Obviously, the courts of law will have its part too. But I don't think there's anything I can shed any light other than the fact that I was awful glad that the playing season started because of… BURBANK: In a manner that… Mr. EISEN: …it finally got us talking about games, which is what fans really want to talk about. I know fans were outraged by that and rightfully so and Pacman Jones, but I got so many more e-mails saying stop talking about that. Tell me what's going to happen with my team. BURBANK: Well, let me, let me ask you about this current season and the big question, I guess, is probably New England, can they go undefeated there? With 9-0, I think, are they like a 3-1 favorite to win the Super Bowl? Mr. EISEN: See, now, those terms confuse me. You know, I don't know what you mean by favorites and things of that nature and odds. BURBANK: Oh yes, I'm sorry. Leaving that off, let me ask you this… Mr. EISEN: (Unintelligible) "Saturday Night Live" character the unfrozen caveman lawyer… (Soundbite of laughter) BURBANK: We, literally, on the show have a huge blog posting dedicated to unfrozen caveman lawyer. I kid you not, Mr. Eisen. Mr. EISEN: So, you know what I mean? I'm like the unfrozen caveman sportscaster and people talked like that to me. BURBANK: You're betting lines scare me. Mr. EISEN: They scare me, you confuse me. BURBANK: But I know this, the Patriots will run the table. No, seriously, though, betting aside. Do the Pats going to go undefeated? Mr. EISEN: I think so. I really do. I mean, their schedule is easier from here on out than it was from the last week - previous, and do you know? They have a big task at home in week 14 with the Stealers coming in? They go two Buffalo and a couple of weeks, which is one of those games. It's sort of can come up to bite you because usually in these cases, it's not the more obvious game on a schedule with the most difficult opponent that will trip a team up when they trying to go undefeated. It's a game on the road against the team that everyone believes should be inferior that normally jumps up to hang a lost on somebody. But by the way the Patriots are playing, it's just beyond phenomenal and they could be the most complete team that we've seen in decades. BURBANK: Does Dan Shula, the coach of - the former coach of the Miami Dolphins have a point? BURBANK: His team went undefeated and he says if the Pats go undefeated, there's an asterisk because they had this cheating scandal with the… Mr. EISEN: He knows better than that, too. He told me, and he's already retracted that. You know, I mean, listen, the Patriots did cheat. They did do something Nixonian because they really didn't mean to do what they were doing… STEWART: There's 18 minutes of that tape missing? (Soundbite of laughter) BURBANK: And hold him in as their offensive coordinator… Mr. EISEN: I like that one. Well, you know, they did something paranoid and they did something that they didn't need to do in order to win and they videotaped the opposition's coaches sending in their signals for them to study for the next game. Mr. EISEN: But they haven't had that this year and a lot of people think the Patriots have been destroying opponents. They have a scorched earth policy this year because they want to prove how insignificant the videotape was for them by showing how great they can be without it. And… BURBANK: And it only looks they'll get uglier this weekend because they're going to take on the Jets and Eric Mangini, their coach, is the guy who blew the whistle on the first place. Hey, Rich Eisen, host of "NFL Total Access" on the NFL Network and author of the very readable and very, very interestingly covered book "Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe." Thank you for coming on the show. We do appreciate it. Mr. EISEN: Yeah, I appreciate that and if there are any listener in the Ann Arbor, Michigan? I went to Michigan, I'm coming for a book signing on Monday at the borders on East Liberty and then on Tuesday - at one o'clock on Monday. BURBANK: The whole interview was trying to keep you off of Michigan. Mr. EISEN: (Unintelligible)… BURBANK: The pride of Staten Island. Rich Eisen, thank you very much. Mr. EISEN: You bet. Copyright © 2007 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. 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