Erin Andrews responded to a Wisconsin meteorologist who said the sideline reporter’s weather reports during NFL Games make her “irrationally angry.”
Sam Kuffel, a newscaster for CBS58 in Milwaukee, wrote via X that she was “begging Erin Andrews to stop making up weather alerts” during the Green Bay Packers’ showdown with the Detroit Lions at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field on Sunday, November 3.
“hey Sam! Just saw the story abt your tweet,” Andrews, 46, wrote via X on Thursday, November 7. “Let me know the best way to touch base. Wanted to show you where Fox security (working the Game) and I got our Weather Alert for the Packers Game! Thx!!”
In a subsequent tweet during the Game, Kuffel wrote, “stuff like this makes me irrationally angry.”
The meteorologist’s posts came in the midst of nasty, rainy weather during the game in Green Bay, with Andrews on the sidelines doing her best to stay dry on the Fox broadcast.
During her reporting, Andrews noted wind gusts of 43-mph and said there was a chance of thunder and lightning.
“And 43 mph?! Specifically 🤨,” meteorologist and weather risk manager for DTN Tanner Verstegen wrote via X in response to Kuffel’s tweet.
“Right?!?!” Kuffel replied.
Kuffel has since deleted her original tweets and it is unclear if she and Andrews have managed to connect.
After the Game, a 24-14 Lions victory, Andrews asked Lions quarterback Jared Goff about playing in the difficult weather.
“These conditions were crazy,” Andrews said. “Massive wind gusts, rain going sideways, [Lions’ defensive coordinator] Aaron Glenn couldn’t see out of his glasses. Tell me what it was like playing in this.”
Goff, 30, boasted about the Lions’ performance, especially in the wake of some chatter that he and his teammates aren’t built for playing outdoors given that Detroit’s Ford Field is a dome.
“We’re supposed to be the dome team. We’re supposed to be the team that can’t play outside,” Goff told Andrews. “And we come out here and we win.”
Andrews, who has been the leading sideline reporter for Fox Sports since 2014, recently opened up about what it’s been like working with broadcast booth newbie and NFL legend Tom Brady this season.
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Andrews added, “I can kind of poke fun at him, throw some jabs, where maybe some of my teammates are trying to go easy on him in the beginning. But now we’re all starting to get really comfortable. It’s all about creating the chemistry within the team and building that as we go along.”
Fox’s top broadcast crew of Andrews, Brady, play-by-play analyst Kevin Burkhardt and sideline reporter Tom Rinaldi will be in Tampa Bay for Week 10, as the Buccaneers play host to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, November 10.
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