Late-Round Perspectives: Lindsay Rhodes

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

Lindsay Rhodes is the host of the Sumer Sports Show, as well as Sports Illustrated's Fantasy Dirt Podcast. She's a mom who spent years at NFL Network as a host and a reporter, and she's done work for NBC Sports, DirecTV and SiriusXM as well. These are her late-round perspectives.

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Lindsey Rhodes (2:41)

Yes, JJ.

JJ Zachariason (2:43)

I haven't I haven't taken it off. So my daughter went ballistic. It was well, well worth it because of her reaction. You know, that matters. That's I will take one for the team to to make her happy that that pickles did that to me.

Lindsey Rhodes (2:57)

I tell you what, I think the smartest thing I ever did as a parent was not start Elf on the Shelf.

JJ Zachariason (3:02)

Yeah, probably, probably would be a smart thing to do.

Lindsey Rhodes (3:05)

Yeah, you can't get out. Now you got to do it. You got to do it every single night. All of this creativity. I mean, like people are going down like Pinterest rabbit holes, like TikTok, like I need another idea.

No, we don't do that in this house. And my kids do think it's funny that other houses have Elf on the Shelf. I'm like, why don't we? And I'm like, I don't know. We don't do that. We do instead. We get Advent calendar. And I've always done an Advent calendar. That's more of like you get a small gift. Like, you know, they sell like, you know, when my son was little, it was like Lego and Lego. You'd buy like a Lego Advent calendar and he gets like a small thing to make. Was this as they've gotten older, it's become more complicated because they don't have like little toys like that. Don't do it for them. But then I've had to start doing like baseball cards. And so I'll do like, you know, like small packs or whatever for my son. Anyway, it's become much more elaborate. But I would much rather do that than do the elf on a shelf.

JJ Zachariason (3:59)