Mike Tirico

There was somebody who actually is still a friend, and we work in a different capacity now, who saw me doing local TV and was an executive at ESPN. And they told me, send a tape in a year. I sent a tape in 10 months. got hired a few months later and, you know, did SportsCenter. And I was there like in the salad days. Yeah, SportsCenter. I was with Chris Myers, who works at Fox now.

The weekends were Carl Ravitch and Linda Cohn, who are still there at ESPN all these years later. And the main group was Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Bob Lee and Charlie Steiner, Robin Roberts, Gary Miller. We just had like this – that is still, for the most part, all on TV doing national sports almost 25, 30 years later. I love that.

The weekends were Carl Ravitch and Linda Cohn, who are still there at ESPN all these years later. And the main group was Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Bob Lee and Charlie Steiner, Robin Roberts, Gary Miller. We just had like this – that is still, for the most part, all on TV doing national sports almost 25, 30 years later. I love that.

The weekends were Carl Ravitch and Linda Cohn, who are still there at ESPN all these years later. And the main group was Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Bob Lee and Charlie Steiner, Robin Roberts, Gary Miller. We just had like this – that is still, for the most part, all on TV doing national sports almost 25, 30 years later. I love that.

It did stand for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Because you know the story at the start. In September of 1979, a little bit before that, they went up on a satellite and had a satellite. And the original idea was they're going to broadcast Connecticut sports around the state. And they're like, wait a minute, this can be seen everywhere. So let's expand out the idea.

It did stand for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Because you know the story at the start. In September of 1979, a little bit before that, they went up on a satellite and had a satellite. And the original idea was they're going to broadcast Connecticut sports around the state. And they're like, wait a minute, this can be seen everywhere. So let's expand out the idea.

It did stand for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Because you know the story at the start. In September of 1979, a little bit before that, they went up on a satellite and had a satellite. And the original idea was they're going to broadcast Connecticut sports around the state. And they're like, wait a minute, this can be seen everywhere. So let's expand out the idea.

And when I was mentioning all the names, I did mention the godfather of it all. Chris. Chris Berman, who, you know, Chris with the nicknames and the schtick and the whole deal, the back, back, back. Chris made it cool. And a lot of people tried to emulate Chris or be like Chris.

And when I was mentioning all the names, I did mention the godfather of it all. Chris. Chris Berman, who, you know, Chris with the nicknames and the schtick and the whole deal, the back, back, back. Chris made it cool. And a lot of people tried to emulate Chris or be like Chris.

And when I was mentioning all the names, I did mention the godfather of it all. Chris. Chris Berman, who, you know, Chris with the nicknames and the schtick and the whole deal, the back, back, back. Chris made it cool. And a lot of people tried to emulate Chris or be like Chris.

But I think the ones who succeeded, like Rich Eisen, Craig Kilbourn, Stuart Scott, guys who came on after the main group I talked about, they found their own schtick, right? Yeah, yeah.

But I think the ones who succeeded, like Rich Eisen, Craig Kilbourn, Stuart Scott, guys who came on after the main group I talked about, they found their own schtick, right? Yeah, yeah.

But I think the ones who succeeded, like Rich Eisen, Craig Kilbourn, Stuart Scott, guys who came on after the main group I talked about, they found their own schtick, right? Yeah, yeah.

And there was room for somebody like me, who's a serious, call the sports, you know, have a little fun with it, but it's not about me cracking one-liners, all the way to the guys who, you know, truly came out of comedy, like Rich Eisen and Kilbourn, the Rich was a stand-up comedian before he came to SportsCenter.

And there was room for somebody like me, who's a serious, call the sports, you know, have a little fun with it, but it's not about me cracking one-liners, all the way to the guys who, you know, truly came out of comedy, like Rich Eisen and Kilbourn, the Rich was a stand-up comedian before he came to SportsCenter.

And there was room for somebody like me, who's a serious, call the sports, you know, have a little fun with it, but it's not about me cracking one-liners, all the way to the guys who, you know, truly came out of comedy, like Rich Eisen and Kilbourn, the Rich was a stand-up comedian before he came to SportsCenter.

that's exactly so here's here's a stupid story so we so Syracuse is uh big for sportscasters and a lot of kids who want to be sportscasters go there and 30 some years later it's almost 40 years later now god um it's still the case so we had just a bunch of nerds and that was our fraternity we were all want to be sportscasters and a bunch of us turned out to be so we would keep a legal pad by our tv and write down every Chris Berman nickname when it

that's exactly so here's here's a stupid story so we so Syracuse is uh big for sportscasters and a lot of kids who want to be sportscasters go there and 30 some years later it's almost 40 years later now god um it's still the case so we had just a bunch of nerds and that was our fraternity we were all want to be sportscasters and a bunch of us turned out to be so we would keep a legal pad by our tv and write down every Chris Berman nickname when it

that's exactly so here's here's a stupid story so we so Syracuse is uh big for sportscasters and a lot of kids who want to be sportscasters go there and 30 some years later it's almost 40 years later now god um it's still the case so we had just a bunch of nerds and that was our fraternity we were all want to be sportscasters and a bunch of us turned out to be so we would keep a legal pad by our tv and write down every Chris Berman nickname when it

There was like a community list and we sent it to ESPN. We were pissed because ESPN never sent a thank you note back, whatever. You know, months later, ESPN put out a list of all the Chris Berman nicknames. So we take credit for that, at least in our own hearts.