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Originally Posted by MattTuck
Yes, this is what I was referring to -- name recognition and ability to monetize their personal brand (and I'd say Phil is pretty good at that). By the nature of cycling and broadcasting, sometimes a domestique's job is already done for the day before the first TV images are seen by fans.
I'm trying to remember the last time that a sideline reporter interviewed a lineman after the game.
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Well, there's Tony Siragusa, and he actually is/was a sideline reporter, though only because he's part of the joke. Linemen do occasionally get local publicity, but nowhere near the publicity received by "skills players."