On Film Study, Texting Coaches and Seattle’s MVP

Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesMy first visit to NFL Films came in October 2008. As a senior in college I sent Ron Jaworski an NFL book I’d written, and he invited me to his office to sit in on some tape study. Coincidentally, that same week I also had an invitation to sit in the broadcast booth of a Monday Night Football game. It was midterms at College of Idaho, but seeing two NFL dreams positioned to come true, I booked a cross-country flight and told professors I’d need to take my exam either early or late.

The MNF experience was every bit as sensational as one would guess; it was my first in-person NFL experience to boot. But the more important experience, by far, was visiting…