Episode 301: Tribute to "Mort"

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Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We lost a great man and a tremendous NFL reporter this week as ESPN's Chris Mortenson passed away from cancer at age 72. On today's episode I talk about my days at ESPN and what I recall about Mort. I also share stories about being around so many great on-air personalities at ESPN. I then read an excerpt from Peter King's Football Morning in America column. Peter wrote his farewell column Monday and began by paying great tribute to Chris! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	Hey, before I start today's episode,
0:56.0	I want to point out that tomorrow, Wednesday, March 6th.
1:02.0	Scott Pollard will be on my YouTube channel live at 5 o'clock
1:05.9	Pacific. That is on if you don't like that you can check out my YouTube
1:10.4	channel if you don't like that. Scott Pollard, again Wednesday, that's
1:14.5	tomorrow March 6th at 5 o'clock. Sad news this week with the passing of Chris Mortenson of ESPN who was a fixture in our homes
1:28.7	over the years very much like John Clayton was during his tenure at ESPM. I was very blessed to get to know John
1:37.9	Clayton very well, didn't really get to know Mort, but interviewed him in person
1:42.2	when I was at ESPan radio a number of times and all of the things that I've seen in memory of Mort this week
1:54.4	they've all said the same thing. What a great guy, how much people respected him, how he always had time for others.
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