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Granny back in Better Than Ever with I'm Interest interested and I could not be more delighted as we

continue this season in which I interview some of the legendary voices and

chroniclers in all of sports to be talking to one of my mentors and one of the real legends in our business and in the

company that I have worked for now for the last 24 years and that is Chris Berman who is my

guest today.

And I would like to tell you my favorite story about Boomer.

Chris Berman is, I think, E-SPN's most famous announcer

and one of the most important sports announcers in the industry's

history because of what ESPN was when he started and why DSPN became and the enormous role that he played in that.

But I would like to tell you a personal story about Chris Berman that will give you an indication

of why I care so much for him.

So when I first came to ESPN, it was the end of August of 1996.

And any of you who know me at all, you know that I'm married for 23 years now.

If you do the math, I came to ESPAN a year before I got married.

And when I moved to Bristol, Connecticut from Chicago where I'd been working, I left behind my then girlfriend, Stacy, and it was difficult to do.

She had a successful career and she wasn't going to just sort of pick up and move.

We weren't engaged or anything.

And so, as a consequence of that, I spent, I worked weekends when I started at ESPN.

My days off were Tuesdays and Wednesdays for about the first year that I was at ESPN.

And in those days I wasn't making very much money at all.

And I wanted to fly to Chicago as often as I could

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