'Thursday Night Football' Broadcaster Worked Last Week After Vomiting

It wasn't just some of the players playing hurt during last Thursday night's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns.

During this week's episode of her "Calm Down" podcast with close friend and colleague Erin Andrews, Amazon Prime Video host Charissa Thompson revealed that she was under the weather during last week's broadcast.

Thompson apparently did her job after feeling so ill that she vomited, a level of dedication that earned her praise from Andrews.

“Even if you’re throwing up the day of your game, which I will tell you, you were and you had a Michael Jordan night,” Andrews said, referring to the basketball legend's famous "Flu Game" during the 1997 NBA Finals.

“You looked spectacular, you handled that desk,” Andrews added. “You said you were going to die, and I said, ‘If you’re going to die they’re going to bury you in that outfit because you look great.'”

Sit out? No way, Thompson said

Thompson made it clear there was no way she wasn't going to fulfill her duties, even if she felt terrible.

“I dreamed of having this job and now two decades later I’m still lucky to have it and I never take it for granted, even if I’m tired, even if it’s this, or that,” the 43-year-old broadcaster explained.

“I love this job… and I dont want anyone else to take my job, try to come for my job,” Thompson continued, discussing her gig with Amazon as well as her Sunday role on FOX. “The seat that I’m lucky enough to sit in on Thursday night and on Sunday — even if things happen during the broadcast because its live television, or in studio, nothing would take away my enthusiasm for this job. They will have to drag me off the set and force me to quit this job before I ever do.”

Thompson, Andrews reupped with FOX in 2025

In July, Front Office Sports reported that FOX had agreed to “lucrative” contract extensions with Andrews and Thompson.

Andrews is FOX's top NFL sideline reporter, while Thompson is a mainstay on their pregame studio coverage.

“No, I’m not leaving FOX. I was never leaving FOX,” Thompson had said on “Calm Down” earlier this year. “I don’t know where this took on a life of its own, where I was hosting my family at the ranch for the past weekend. Four of my family members asked, ‘Well, the place looks great. How are you going to afford it now that you don’t have a job?'”