Part of my pregame routine leading up to a college football or NFL broadcast is to venture down to the field an hour before kickoff. It's one thing to get a birds-eye view of players from the booth, but another to stand next to a player, and see how he looks and moves in pregame warmups.
Last week, I called the LSU-Mississippi State game for ESPN. Watching LSU from field level is like watching an NFL team in terms of their body types. Standing next to Leonard Fournette is like standing next to Adrian Peterson. Both look like they could run by –
or run over -- you.