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At 0.96, Mike Golic sits at one peak of a two-peak structure — and at 0.96, Mel Kiper Jr. anchors the other, with the audience bridging an athlete cluster and a TV personality/journalist cluster rather than converging on a single type.
The shape is two-peak, and the subcategory breakdown makes the split legible. The first cluster runs through athletes: Golic (0.96), Tony Dungy (0.95), and Trent Dilfer (0.93). The second runs through journalists and TV personalities: Kiper (0.96), Todd McShay (0.95), Mike Greenberg (0.92), and Colin Cowherd (0.92). These two clusters are not cleanly separated — Trey Wingo (0.90) sits at the TV personality end while Trent Dilfer sits at the athlete end — but the tension between the two poles is the defining structural feature. The only other Podcasts and Radio entry in the top 10 is The Will Cain Show at 0.93, making it the lone same-kind neighbor; the remaining nine positions belong to individual media figures and one blog, Pro Football Rumors (0.93). No sports teams, leagues, or non-media brands appear in the top 10.
The two-peak structure suggests this audience is shaped less by format loyalty than by a specific media ecosystem — one that spans former players turned analysts and career broadcast journalists covering professional football.
