 During the film shoot he met Tami-Adrian George, who would accidentally kill his character in the movie and purposefully marry him in real life.In the season 2 episodes of "Sports Night" entitled "Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks" and "The Reunion", he played Kyle Whitaker, an NFL player on an unnamed Cleveland based team who gets suspended because he is one of 6 other players caught in an illegal steroid abuse ring in which they got oral steroids illegally thru prescription fraud.In "the Reunion" Eric physically appears.