On Monday, Melissa Stark returned to her New Jersey home after working the first Thursday and Sunday night games of the NFL season for NBC. Her daughter Clemmie had just walked in from school and immediately had instructions.
“Mom, you need to post about the weekend,” she said.
Naturally, social media isn’t as ingrained in Stark, 48, as it is in Clemmie, who, like most teenagers, has grown up with it. So Stark handed over her phone.
“On Twitter and Instagram, she posted a picture of Tom Brady and me from 20 years ago and then [Sunday],” said Stark, the sideline reporter for “Sunday Night Football.