You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.
I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.
I don't try to hide who I am when I appear in public places, act, or attend interviews. If I do, it makes the gap even wider. I like it best when someone says I'm the same on television, on camera, or off camera. This makes it easier for me.
It's a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it's all about football. That's what they remember about me.
I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.
It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.