That’s one dirty girl we’d just love to get tackled by!
ESPN reporter Erin Andrews suited up and got down in the mud with some hunks from the Columbia University football team for a new GQ photo shoot that shows off assets other than her journalism skills.
See the Full Feature on Andrews at GQ.com
Andrews strapped on shoulder pads and daubed on eye black in April — three months before the bombshell news broke that she had been videotaped naked in a hotel room, and that clips from the video ended up on the Internet.
Andrews, who normally patrols college gridiron sidelines digging for scoops, opened up to the magazine about her desire to go deep for a chance at the big leagues, true love — and life in the Big Apple.
The 31-year-old Atlanta resident — the object of obsession to many male sports fans — told GQ for its September issue that she wants to move north to New York, pronto.
Andrews said that Jesse Palmer — her on-air ESPN colleague — “always says to me, ‘What are you waiting for?’ ”
“I have no ties to Atlanta, so ideally, I’ll get there ASAP and start playing,” Andrews said.
She also said there’s “no doubt” she wants to cover the NFL at some point in her career.
“But right now, the college game, I’m enamored with it. I grew up in the South. It’s a religion,” she said.
Long before the nude images of her appeared on the Web, the curvy blonde sent fans’ hearts aflutter and kept them monitoring their computers for new photos of her — clothed, that is — in action for ESPN.
GQ notes that drunken college students routinely propose to her as she saunters past them on the sidelines.
Although she’s so far declined those heartfelt offers, Andrews isn’t ruling out settling down when the time is right.
“I’ve always looked out for my career first,” she said. “That’s not to say I don’t want to have kids and get married.”
“But the guys I’ve dated are happy I’m not calling them 24-7,” Andrews noted. “They’ve got their own stuff going on; that’s a good fit for me.”
After GQ’s photos hit newsstands and GQ.com this week, Andrews admirers will have to hold their breath for two weeks before getting a fresh gander at her — and her lovely gams.
Andrews, who has been on hiatus for the summer, returns to the sidelines on ESPN for the opening of the college-football season on Sept. 3.