Before becoming the host for Fox Sports’ Fox NFL Kickoff, Charissa Thompson was a sideline reporter with the network tasked with asking the tough questions and talking to coaches during games. In a recent interview on the Pardon My Take podcast, she revealed that, on occasion, she would blatantly lie about what coaches said during sideline reports.
“I, and I’ve said this before, so I haven’t been fired for saying it, but I’ll say it again,” she said. “I would make up the report sometimes because A., the coach wouldn’t come out at halftime or it was too late and I was like, I didn’t want to screw up the report, so I was like, ‘I’m just gonna make this up.’
