I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.

My job happens to be sports-related, so it's like my duty to watch football. It's my job. But that's not a change for me. When you're 18, it's life and death, because you don't have a kid, and it's a much bigger deal when you're 18. Having a kid - when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I'm not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don't want.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.