Peter Schrager, the king of connections, on working Super Bowl week

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In the 42-minute pod, Fox Sports’ and NFL Network’s Peter Schrager goes inside Super Bowl week and how he works it.

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* How not being sent by NFL Network to the Super Bowl in 2024 was crushing for him

* As a result, Schrager paid his own way to go for 18 hours to Vegas for the Super Bowl and slept in a friend's hotel room

* What is Super Bowl week like for Schrager

* What it meant to host Media Night with both teams and how it enabled him to make more connections

* How Fox Sports president of programming and production Brad Zager called him to tell him to be at Bourbon Street at 3 a.m. for an unspecified meet-up that turned into an unbelievable event

* What the Lady Gaga pregame taping was like with Tom Brady, Roger Goodell, Michael Strahan and more

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* It was an emotional night with the first responders, who were honored

* How he lays the groundwork with coaches, players, owners, executives and their significant others

* How Schrager compares to Peter King

* The all-staff Super Bowl dinner with the full Fox Sports crew from Brady to the people in accounting ...

* Schrager doesn't drink all week

* What the Volume party is like and how he was happy to meet Nick Wright and see Omaha’s Logan Swaim and Tim Brown

* How he went to Chris Stapleton's concert with his friend Kliff Kingsbury, which led to seeing more owners, players and SiriusXM’s Ross Zapin, among others

* How he gets to close out the Super Bowl with "Schrager on Ice"

* Going to Jelly Roll with the Los Angeles Rams crew, including Sean McVay

* Michael Rubin's Fanatics' brunch is something out of this world

* Dinner at Rao's with Kevin Costner and Pete Davidson in the room

* Mike Tirico dancing to "Come on, Eileen."

* When does Schrager sleep?

* During the season, he flies every week from New York to Los Angeles and back for Fox Sports NFL Sunday show

* Dinner with Sean McVay and how he thinks he will be great on TV

* Why he went to McVay's wedding

* How he got inside information from it

* How Jay Glazer breaks the Aaron Rodgers' story by having a relationship with Rodgers

* How he has relationships with Jets' ownership, but was critical of their coaching search process

* How Super Bowl week is the biggest week of his year

* He got Miles Teller and Bradley Cooper because he has created relationships

* What was his favorite parts of the Super Bowl

* Should it be called “Super Bowl schmooze” or “Super Bowl hang”

* His thoughts on "StatementGate" with Adam Schefter

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