Marchand Sports Media Peter Schrager, the king of connections, on working Super Bowl week
In the 42-minute pod, Fox Sports’ and NFL Network’s Peter Schrager goes inside Super Bowl week and how he works it.
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* How not being sent by NFL Network to the Super Bowl in 2024 was crushing for him
* As a result, Schrager paid his own way to go for 18 hours to Vegas for the Super Bowl and slept in a friend's hotel room
* What is Super Bowl week like for Schrager
* What it meant to host Media Night with both teams and how it enabled him to make more connections
* How Fox Sports president of programming and production Brad Zager called him to tell him to be at Bourbon Street at 3 a.m. for an unspecified meet-up that turned into an unbelievable event
* What the Lady Gaga pregame taping was like with Tom Brady, Roger Goodell, Michael Strahan and more
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* It was an emotional night with the first responders, who were honored
* How he lays the groundwork with coaches, players, owners, executives and their significant others
* How Schrager compares to Peter King
* The all-staff Super Bowl dinner with the full Fox Sports crew from Brady to the people in accounting ...
* Schrager doesn't drink all week
* What the Volume party is like and how he was happy to meet Nick Wright and see Omaha’s Logan Swaim and Tim Brown
* How he went to Chris Stapleton's concert with his friend Kliff Kingsbury, which led to seeing more owners, players and SiriusXM’s Ross Zapin, among others
* How he gets to close out the Super Bowl with "Schrager on Ice"
* Going to Jelly Roll with the Los Angeles Rams crew, including Sean McVay
* Michael Rubin's Fanatics' brunch is something out of this world
* Dinner at Rao's with Kevin Costner and Pete Davidson in the room
* Mike Tirico dancing to "Come on, Eileen."
* When does Schrager sleep?
* During the season, he flies every week from New York to Los Angeles and back for Fox Sports NFL Sunday show
* Dinner with Sean McVay and how he thinks he will be great on TV
* Why he went to McVay's wedding
* How he got inside information from it
* How Jay Glazer breaks the Aaron Rodgers' story by having a relationship with Rodgers
* How he has relationships with Jets' ownership, but was critical of their coaching search process
* How Super Bowl week is the biggest week of his year
* He got Miles Teller and Bradley Cooper because he has created relationships
* What was his favorite parts of the Super Bowl
* Should it be called “Super Bowl schmooze” or “Super Bowl hang”
* His thoughts on "StatementGate" with Adam Schefter
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