Oct 18, 2021; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter talks on his phone before the Monday Night Football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports Christopher Hanewinckel/USA Today Sports.
By Andrew Bucholtz on

We sometimes see insiders tweeting news from other sports, or even from areas beyond sports. One long-running example of that is ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter relaying news of if famed groundhog “Punxsutawney Phil” sees his shadow on Groundhog Day or not. Here’s how Schefter posted about that Sunday:

Schefter has been doing this for more than a decade. Here’s what he tweeted back in 2015:

And he doesn’t only post about this in the years where the groundhog sees his shadow. Last year, Schefter posted about an early spring:

Of course, this isn’t the only case of Schefter branching out from football. He’s done that with other sports as well, including the NBA (where he’s occasionally worked as a sideline reporter and has even broken news at times). And he weighed in on the massive Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis trade Saturday, albeit with some NFL analogies:

There also were plenty of reactions to Schefter’s groundhog tweet bringing up that trade, including one from his ESPN colleague Field Yates:

The “per sources” here is also funny. And Joe Person of The Athletic had a great response there referencing the famed 1993 film Groundhog Day:

At any rate, Schefter’s regular Groundhog Day tweets are interesting. And he recently spoke to Andrew Marchand about how he likes to get out of “the cage” of NFL reporting when he can. This is another example of that.

About Andrew Bucholtz

Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.

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