Scott Hanson is gearing up for the new NFL season kicking off this weekend. He chatted with The Big Lead ahead of all the action and described how he winds down after each Sunday on NFL RedZone.
Hanson began hosting the program over a decade ago and said he is “fried” after each seven-hour session of commercial-free football. His post-show routine begins with taking out his earpiece and preparing for silence.
“This is not to sound too dramatic,” Scott Hanson described to The Big Lead. “But it is true: I kind of brace myself on the anchor desk that you see me standing at because I almost lose my equilibrium a little bit, it’s like half of my head has had constant stimulus going into it. It kind of freaked me out the first couple of times that it happened. The sound of silence in the studio, it’s bizarre. It’s like you’ve never heard anything so quiet. Then my body starts to react. I think my body knows, ‘Oh, the show’s over. The show is over.’”
Next up is makeup removal. Hanson isn’t a fan of dolling himself up each Sunday but understands it’s a part of the business.
“I don’t like having the makeup on my face,” Hanson described. “It’s necessary, but I don’t like having it on. But when I take it off, that is the cleansing of the end of a RedZone episode, and it kind of lets me start to think about relaxing a little bit and recovery.”
Scott Hanson takes his pre-show diet seriously every Sunday. He swears off food three hours before showtime and then goes 10 hours without eating or drinking anything.
“I’m pretty dehydrated and pretty hungry [after the show]. I’ll fire up some delivery food to my house,” Hanson explained to The Big Lead. “I get home, and a lot of times it will be cheeseburgers or Chinese food or Italian or some greasy Mexican food. Whatever I want because it doesn’t matter what happens to me. I don’t need to watch the intake come Sunday night, and I love it.”