Erin Andrews is staying on the gridiron, and she's perfectly fine with that.
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The longtime Fox sideline reporter says her days working the MLB playoffs are officially behind her, explaining that dropping into baseball coverage after a full NFL season just didn't feel right.
"I found that coming in at the end of the year after covering football and then jumping in, I felt like I was doing a disservice to people watching at home," Andrews said on her Calm Down podcast this week, via Awful Announcing. "If you're not covering football all year long, and then you're jumping into the playoffs, you don't know the storylines. You don't know what's going on in the meetings. I just felt like I wasn't giving what I could give — and that other people, like Kenny Rosenthal, could do it better."
Andrews, 47, covered the MLB All-Star Game and World Series for Fox from 2012 to 2015 before shifting her focus exclusively to football. She's been a fixture on the network's top NFL crew ever since, sticking with Kevin Burkhardt and now Tom Brady after Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left for ESPN.
She admitted that the "catch-up" work required to cover baseball after months of football was overwhelming — and made her feel "stupid" at times. "There were other people that had covered it all year who knew the ins and outs," Andrews added. "They deserved to be there."
Outside of the NFL, Andrews continues to branch out. She co-hosts Calm Down with Charissa Thompson, just signed a new deal with Fox, and now serves as host of the network's game show 99 to Beat.
In short: no more seventh-inning stretches — just fourth-quarter drama.
