Charissa Thompson did not almost die during a Thursday Night Football broadcast - a bad experience with a seafood tower only made her feel like it earlier that day. Thompson, 43, took to her "Calm Down with Erin and Charissa" podcast to set the record straight about what happened during the October 16 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers. "Two weeks ago, I got sick before the game," she recalled to cohost Erin Andrews on the Tuesday, November 4, episode. "I was sick in the morning at a production meeting. Came out of nowhere.