Bob Ryan was that guy who looked like he was 70 years old for so long that now that he's actually 78 he looks like he's 105.
remember clearly as a kid watching that 5pm hour every day and my dad would get home at 5:45. then channel 9 local news, world news tonight with peter jennings and right into jeopardy
this reminds me of one my favorite bill simmons jokes, where he described bob ryan as "looking like aaron burr if he shot alexander hamilton and fled the scene on a motorcycle"
Coming soon to the stupid shit you see on ESPN thread, but it's here for now https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42538479/jason-kelce-host-late-night-show-espn-starting-jan-3
Love Kelce but hate this idea. Give me a show with like 3-4 OL talking ball and shooting the shit about life/non-sports stuff. My longheld belief is that OL make the best sports personalities because they don’t look like theyre athletic freaks and resemble overweight dad’s with thinning hair. They’ve always had to compete with their better looking teammates for women, so they make up for it with much better personalities. Tons of current and former guys would be awesome for this concept.
I like him. He seems like a pretty cool dude. But in typical ESPN fashion theyre going to shove him down everyone’s throat and people are going to end up hating him.
I mean it’s on at 1 AM. They are probably more interested in it producing YouTube/viral clips than how many people actually watch the show.
I like him on the MNF pregame. Trying to put him everywhere is going to get old. And it will get worse when Travis retires.
Wasn’t surprised that Whitworth made a seamless transition to analyst just from hearing him interviewed as a player.
I listened to his 30 minutes on Russillo's pod this week and it was one of the best analyst/former player interviews I've heard in a long time. I wasn't planning on listening to more than a few minutes when it showed up on my YouTube feed and ended up enjoying the whole thing.