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The Noise Report

(SI.com examines some of the more notable sports media stories of the past week.)

1. Sports Illustrated ran an amusing profile of Amy Trask in 2002, where she exhibited her passion for football (and especially the Raiders) in no uncertain terms. As writer Michael Silver described the scene, at the pivotal moment of the 2001 divisional playoff game between the Raiders and the Patriots, Trask, then the CEO of Oakland’s team, hovered over 77-year-old league observer Art McNally as the replay review of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady‘s apparent game-ending fumble played in front of them. Trask screamed, “You’d better call 911, because I’m going to have a f——— heart attack if you overturn this f——— call!”?

The call was overturned (Google the “Tuck Rule Game,” kids), Trask did not have a heart attack, and the Pats went on to win Super Bowl XXXVI. Trask spent 27 years working as a management executive for the Raiders before she resigned last May. She will now follow the recent path taken by plenty of former NFL management types:

She has become a television analyst.

CBS announced last week that Trask will be an analyst for That Other Pregame Show, a new four-hour pregame show that will air on CBS Sports Network from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., beginning with Week 1 of the NFL season on Sept. 8. “When I resigned my position with the Raiders I had absolutely positively no idea or inkling whether this was something I would consider let alone undertake,” Trask said in an interview last week. “I spent 27 years with the Raiders running the opposite direction anytime I saw a television camera.”

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