The ESPN Monday Night Football guitar
Mark French and I designed and built a guitar with a Wilson football-leather top for ESPN, then I played it on Monday Night Football.
Date
Read it with your AI
Short on time? Have your AI read this page for you. Each button copies this exact prompt and opens your assistant. Paste it if it isn't filled in already.
Read https:/
ESPN asked the Purdue Guitar Lab for a guitar to feature on Monday Night Football, and Mark French asked me to lead the project.
I coordinated the design with ESPN, brought in Wilson for real football leather, and recruited Purdue football’s equipment staff to prepare it. Mark French and I built the guitar at the Guitar Lab.
Then I played it on air at Lucas Oil Stadium, with the Colts drumline behind me and ESPN’s Jason Kelce on my keytar.
Credits
- Coordination with ESPN, Wilson and Purdue football
- Noah Scott
- Design and build
- Noah Scott & Mark French, Purdue Guitar Lab
- Football leather
- Parker Nordstrom & the Wilson team
- Leather prep
- Kyle Gergely, Drew Decker
- Leatherwork
- Eric Martinez
- Requested by
- ESPN
- Keytar on air
- Jason Kelce
- Photos
- Purdue Marketing
In the press
More work
- Football Calendar SyncAn NFL and college football bot for Google Calendar, with kickoff times, TV networks and live scores kept up to date. Open source files landing on my GitHub in October 2026.
- The SecretaryA private document agent system. Bringing together every scan, document, or file I have. Everything gets read, sorted and indexed overnight, so I can find anything later just by asking.
- “Win for Jim” Colts guitarDesigned and co-built a guitar commissioned by the Indianapolis Colts head coach in honor of their late owner, Jim Irsay. Featured weekly on NFL broadcasts and in Guitar World.
- BabyShip.coA service that allows families to ship their own baby gear ahead to where they are traveling. Alleviating the need for dragging car seats through the airport or renting someone else's gear when they arrive.
- NoahGPTThe prior version of this site. Instead of reading a résumé, visitors talked to a RAG-based AI called Nova.
- The Mackey Arena floor guitarA guitar we made from the Purdue basketball court. I played it for the national anthem prior to the rivalry game of Purdue v. IU, then auctioned it off to support the Purdue Guitar Lab.